May 31st, 2003
May 23/2003
DROVE OUT to the Whistler MTB park for the day. Picked up Neal (Hjalmar met him on the Cove Shop Ride) on the way and hit the Park.
First run….A-Line of course. Hjalmar thought this was great and we did another lap of it. Spent the day pretty much on A-Line playing on the jumps, but every second run or so we did someting new. We stayed til the bitter end, and managed to score a day of riding with out rain for once. HJALMAR HAS NEVER seen a live bear (outside a zoo) before and I just new that we’d find one today. Sure enough, found one over on B-Line. I had Hjalmar’s digicam and stopped to get close to the bear. Took a lot of pictures, Hjalmar watched me for a while, but was a bit uncomfortable seeing how close I was getting to the bear. The bear wasn’t showing any signs of being aggressive or upset with me being so close…and truley I was only as close as I felt was comfortable for the both of us, and I just kept talking to him the whole time so I wouldn’t startle him.
I LOST my rear brake half way through the day but I kept riding. To be honest, I didn’t think that I would be able to make it through the whole day of riding because I was on my hardtail….But to my surprise – I had as much fun on the hardtail as I did on the Peeler last Monday!
WE ALL had a great day, but we had to head back to the city, drop Neal off, and go out for some dinner (Raven) as it was Hjalmar’s last evening with us. Sad to see him leave, but I have a feeling he’ll be back soon….
Cheers,
b