This past week has been nothing short of hectick! A good hectick but crazy.  It started when we landed late in Calgary after jetting over the Atlantic, slept the night, jumped in the Car drove 7 hours back to Rossland, did laundry, loaded my bikes in my truck, fixed myself a coffee and began my 9 hour venture to Whistler.  The two day travel tally looked a little something like this… 9 hours in a plane, a few hours of sleep, followed by a hazy 16 hour day behind the wheel.  Epic indeed.

The North Face and Sherpas Cinema had teamed up to for a week of shooting a handful of different media projects all over Whistler.  Needless to say when you get this many characters together it’s nothing but a good time.  Ski, Snowboard, and Bike projects were all on the docket but the Sherpas alongside Haley Caruso (our team manager) made this multi-sport mixtape work like “peas and carrots”.  I had a great week, although it was a little odd to come right off an injury and dive straight into filming, but it worked out pretty well. Edit should be dropping soon.  Big Thanks to the “William Wallace” of skiing Ian McIntosh, who was constantly on hand to point us in the proper dirt disturbing direction.  On side note  I have to say working with the Sherpas was unreal.    We have a big project in Bralorne coming up and this little shoot has me even more stoked to be heading up there with these fellas.  Oh and Mad props to Tom Wallisch and Benji Farrow who were throwing down triples on Whistlers classic sunset booter… boys where crushing it!  Check the photos, you know just an average day at the office.  Killer week with the crew. I am off to Tahoe/Squaw Valley for another North Face gig.

To put it plainly this is one of the coolest things I have seen on a bike in the longest time.    Ian Morrison displays some serious big bike skill.  Have a watch and tip your hat, because this is awesome!

Alright so I have been meaning to jump all over this blog thing, but the honest truth is that I have been on the move since arriving home from Europe.  Oh right Europe … So instead boarding the rehab train on this side of the Atlantic, I decided to jump the pond and corral this wandering appendage of mine in the UK… I just had a quick scan of that last sentence and thought I would give that explanation another go, this time in plain english, rather than the tongue chewing banter I delivered.  Round 2… I dislocated my shoulder about a month ago, and decided to work through my physio in England.  There we go a little more to the point.  Although you might be asking yourself “Why England?”, and all I can say is when the you hit a bump in the road… you fly over the Atlantic with your girlfriend and make the best of a bad situation.  Or I could say that the flights where super cheap, we had never been, and I really felt it would help expand my vocabulary which would in-turn make me sound exponentially more intelligent on this here blog. Either way it was a good call.

In a nutshell … We slept on a boat in Amsterdam, unknowingly drank 16 Euro coffees (ouch!), hired cruisers and mingled with 2 wheeled rush hour traffic (everyone is on bikes there, ridiculously cool), rallied our left handed rental car across the english countryside (only getting honked at once… chalk it up as a “win”), saw Stone Hedge, stayed on sheep farm, ate a proper Roast dinner in a legitimate english pub (awesome!), hung with Big Ben, had a look through London’s eye, kicked it with the queen/stood outside her house, walked, saw “Les Miserables” (actually pretty cool), rode trains, grabbed multiple lunches at one of Gordon Ramsey’s prospects, expanded my vocabulary ten fold, saw very few sets of bad teeth(stereotypes not living up), hopped a double-decker bus for two hours at midnight (best $2.30 we’ve ever spent), went over Abbey Road, stood on a castle, and took way too many pictures.  Pretty unreal way to relocate a wing, and now it’s back on to business as usual.

Alright well this is one of those situations where I’ll let the images do the talking.  Here’s a look at my new custom Norco Aurum, kitted with next years Saint, Gravity Components, Marzocchi Suspension (this years product feels ridiculous!), Kenda tires and one damn fine Paint Job!  Thanks to the fellas at Fresh Air Experience (www.freshair.ca) for helping me  get this new rig on the trails.

Just a little stoked ha !

The North Face has teamed up with Bike Magazine for a contest of epic proportions.  Want to win yourself an all expenses paid trip to Whistler, a handful of North Face Shwag, and your fresh looking face gracing the glossy pages of Bike… than send us a video of you throwing it down.  Check the link…

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