The New Adventures of Martn aka Skip: Thanksgiving weekend

Sorry folks, it's been a while since I've blogged but here's the first of my updates - this was over a month ago now so it's a bit dim in my memory.

Rossland is small town nestling in the crater of an extinct volcano at 4000ft in the East of British Columbia

A load of us headed to Rossland for the long weekend to enjoy their legendary trails

being at the back of beyond some of the bikes are a bit basic ;-)

but the Fall (known as Autumn in the old country) colours are amazing - photos just dont do them justice but it was pretty, well pretty!

down to the serious business of riding

this was a crazy new stunt that has to be seen on the flesh to be believed - a ladder bridge to side/hip drop to huuuuuuge steeeeeeep wooden landing ramp.

the ring-leader, Megan. A cool rider and generally all round good gal. She knows the trails here like the back of her hand

Rich finding the damp mossy rocks a little damp and mossy - to be fair, this was a gnarly line and was the scene of Megan's dislocated shoulder last year

Over in Nelson, there were some great slabs to ride - always fun and kinda like riding on the moon but basically very easy

unfortunately we were also accompanied by the worlds worst trail dog. Zoe (or was it Cloe, or perhaps Lucifer!?) insisted on being at the front but only by 3ft - dumb animal didnt make too many friends today!

more slabbage

This is Rick. Rick is almost blind but doesnt let it stop him from riding all the trails. Inspiring.

Dave on one of the high bridge crossings

Shhhhh, Derek had a hard day

Wildlife

This was funny - we were sitting in a coffee shop having lunch and three bears appeared outside the window - it was just like being in a zoo - EXCEPT we were the ones behind the glass!!!