Hip & Happening Missoula Montana

A short 2 hour drive we arrived in Missoula last night. What a happening, active city. Being a university city we have found this place to be hoppin at all hours and young people out hanging about on the streets. I'm trying to figure out the style here not sure what to call it but pretty funky, hippyish so far. We we're treated to a local pub for dinner then found ourselves at Charie B's bar shooting back some good old Whisky and beer. Today we checked out the farmers market and then made our way to Pedal Fest which is an annual bike fest with a small ramp area set up for riders, beer garden's and live music. To kick it off they started with a cruiser parade which we joined in with our last min. feather boa's. Cory even went as far as wearing Karen's bikini in it. The weather is great and hot here. Us girls spent part of the afternoon running up to the big M up on a hill overlooking the city while the boy's shot the fest and drank beer. There's a uni football game on today and wow they really do it up here with their tail gate party's and amount of fans. We are off to Butte tomorrow but will get some trail shots done in the morning here.

Ride Guides in Montana

We are 3 days into our 11 day trip down in Montana filming for OLN tv show Ride Guides. We have been here in Whitefish checking out Big Mnt Resort and some local Freeride trails along with their new 50mile cross country trial which will soon be open to the public this fall. Jeremy and I are joined with another couple Cory and Karen from Squamish for a so called couple's episode in Montana. It's been a lot of fun so far riding, dinning and meeting the local bike guru's who are totally into promoting their bike trails and beautiful area. We have enjoyed whitefish dinning scene and even checked out the Saloon last night after our awsome sushi dinner. We're headed off to Masoula today for some more action.

Whistler & Squamish

Sun's back in Whistler

We had 2 awsome days of riding at Whistler mountain. After hanging around a wet tent for 4 days we decided to splurge and checked ourselves into a comfy suite for 2 nights in Whistler. We bumped into one of Jer's riding buddies from Canmore, Leif so the 3 of us spent the day on the hill. There is a lot of Jumps and air time in Whistler. Took a bit of getting use to but by the 2nd day we were loving it and wanting more. We then headed back to Pemberton and stayed with Jer's friend Dave and Tessa for the night and the next morning we did a shorter ride in the dusty, techy, Pemby, trails. We headed to Squamish for the next 2 nights and stayed with Cousin Ron & Pip and Oben & Fin. It was great to spend some time with them and the kids and Aunt Suilia was down from New Zealand. Oben is a real cuttie these days we had fun playing with him. They live right by some great trials so we had an big day checking out the trails with Adam who works at the bike shop in town. I really am being sold on moving out that way for at least the riding season. There is endless amount of riding and it's really some of the best I've ridden. I would definitely like to be on a bigger bike then the one I have. We we had to cut our Squamish trip short as we are headed to Montana with Ride Guides T.V. show. We had a last minute invite for the both of us and another couple to do a couple's episode show casing Montana Riding for 11 days. We'll keep you posted.

Rain Rain... Ok a lot of Rain!

Well after a big bill on the truck and a week in Revy we were off again and back to Silver Star Vernon. We wanted to get another day in at the hill before we hit the coast. About our second ride in Jer lost the bolt to pedal crank and had to ride down on one pedal. We were lucky that the bike shop had one that fit so we were back in action. So back up we went. This next run down Jeremy blew out the seal on his front fork and this time we weren't as lucky to find the right replacements so about 1:00 we hit the road to Squamish. We pulled into camp latter at night to rain rain and more rain. We got out for a wet ride but soon realized how hard wet tree roots in squamish were to ride. We've been riding out this weather for nearly 5 days now. We went and stayed with some friends in Pemberton for the night and visited some awsome hot springs. We checked out a small hike to Joffre lakes and went to an inspiring slide show of a young adventure, action photographer in Whistler. Looks like sunshine should be here tomorrow so we'll hit up the hill for a couple days and then who knows. Hope every one's enjoying the sunshine back home.

Truck Broke Down.... Already????

Well sunday we were doing some biking and shuttling and the truck went ka-put. So it's currently in the shop getting a new radiator and we're just chilling in Revy. Not a bad place to be. We're staying with some more friends who have a B&B and well it's not being used at the moment so we have a pretty nice suite to ourselves. Jer and I checked out some of the cross country bike trails yesterday but I broke a spoke so it was cut short. We did how ever get out climbing in the afternoon. It's totally been a while. I was getting spanked on the routes, much different movements then riding a bike! We should hear more about our truck today so hopefully head out tomorrow back to Vernon or else straight to the coast. I think rain is in store for the next little bit. Here's some pic's from Golden and Revy biking.