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Spring Guy’s Weekend

Juliette was away last weekend on an executive retreat, so I decided to invite everyone down to the chalet for a weekend of mountain biking. Several of us took Friday off for a long weekend. I arrived Thursday night to several inches of snow and was worried when Dave and I went for an early […]

Paris to Ancaster 2012

Juliette and I rode the Paris to Ancaster race today. It is a 60km cyclocross race through muddy trails, dirt roads and rail trails. It poured rain just before the start of the race, then drizzled through the first half of the race, so the trails were extremely muddy making it the hardest year I […]

Skiing in Sweden

Juliette and I are back safe from Sweden and finally settled in. After a very long series of flights, we started at the pure freeride camp in Abisko. Tired and jetlagged, we joined a great group of people to ski Friday morning. Despite being well above the arctic circle, it was warm and raining lightly […]

Off to Sweden

Our bags are nearly packed and Juliette and I are getting ready to head off to Sweden to meet Jennie & Rich for a grand spring skiing tour of Sweden. We are flying into Stockholm, then flying up to Kiruna above the arctic circle to join in on the Swedish pure freeride camp in Abisko. […]

Spring is Pond Skimming Time

Juliette and I are crazy busy preparing to leave for Sweden for ten days of skiing in the high arctic, but tonight I stole time away from the prep to upload the photos I took from the pond skimming at Holiday Valley a couple of weeks ago. This was my first day with the new […]