http://youtube.com/v/MW-5Uxy8JuM Gettting to top of our second peak just a little too late to navigate safely down the opposite side! This is where we lost almost 4hr’s getting cliffed out and retracing our steps. →

http://youtube.com/v/kPaEtidEjCU Having a blast in the snow at Raid The North Extreme 2007 →

http://youtube.com/v/XgyPWkExNZs A short video from the first trekking stage of RTNX 2007 →

Checkout the summer edition of Get Out There Magazine. There is a short write up about the Squamish MOMAR on page four, and one of the best articles I have ever seen in print on page twenty two…(just for the record, I did not say that we finished 2nd in Baja, I stated that we… →

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The fourth annual Squamish Thunder took place this past weekend at Alice Lake. Conditions were absolutely perfect, with slightly overcast skies and perfectly packed trails due to our recent ‘heat wave’ in the lower mainland of B.C. I was somewhat surprised by the surge of day of participants and even ran out of registration forms… →

(These pics are not in order…it’s harder then you would think!) As mentioned, the team was in second place, after a 5km run, coming into the first transition…another dreaded paddling leg.We were definitely in race mode and went to work on pumping up those damn boats as quickly as our bodies would allow. A few… →

(Check out my incredible form on the water donut paddling section of the MOMAR!) So I realize that I am falling behind on my official blogging duties, but you have to understand that I have been without Internet at home since returning from RTNX and the first versions of that race report were done by… →

For RTNX 2007 they were having us paddle an inflatable kayak known as the Tomcat Tandem. The reasoning was that they could access so much more terrain by simply deflating these boats to transport them, rather then needing a full kayak trailer and trucks to do so…these boats proved to be the mental undoing of… →

As mentioned the week leading up to my departure for RTNX was pretty much the craziest week of the year for me. At 1am the night before I left I was still moving boxes to my new abode. I managed about 4hr sleep before getting up at 5:30am on Friday morning and proceeded to move… →