I was going to try and do this next post with some video from Whistler in it, but my netbook just isnt powerfull enough to edit 720p video without taking ages to process everything, so all of the video will probably have to wait till we get back :(.
The blog is a couple of weeks behind now so heres an update from Milwaukee onwards.
We flew from Milwaukee to Denver to catch our connecting flight to Seattle on Tuesday (2nd) evening. After taking the literail into the center of Seattle we caught our bus to Vancover to meet the connecting bus to Whistler. The journey from Vancover to Whistler has absolutly stunning scenery (which we recoded on GoPro and will have as time lapse in the video).
After reaching the lodge in Whistler we descovered we were in the room next to Toff (Dan) and Ed from Bath, bit random as I didnt even know they were out there at the time.
For Thursday and Friday we rented DH bikes to ride the mountain, with Rob (friend of Lex's) guiding us for the first day. Those 2 days were some of the best I have ever spent on a bike, with ski lifts up all day so you spend more time riding than traveling back up the mountain!
Friday night was Ed's birthday so everyone went out for a heavy nights drinking.
Saturday we just hung about the lodge most of the day (as we were in so much pain from hanging onto the bars over the breaking bumps) and went to ride the Whistler jumps in the evening, only for it to start raining after my 3rd run through them :(.
Sunday we caught the bus early for the journey back to Seattle where we checked into a hostel and I went off to find Tim at a bar whilst Lex took the literail back the the airport to collect the car.
That night we went out into Seattle to some bar with people from the hostel. was bit random with the back room full of oldskool pinball machines. everyone else seemed to get quite drunk off about 2 beers leaving us as the only sober ones, and all the bars close at about 1:3o and nowhere even clubs are aloud to sell alcohol after 2 :S
next day we rode Colanade bike park, under the freeway in seattle. It's quite freeridey with north shore ladders etc, but was still fun. heres a pic from there
Tuesday we headed to the other side of the water to get the usual postcard picture of seattle.
We then drove down to Portland and met up with a friend of Tims and went out to a few bars with them. The local specialty at a shop called Voodoo dounughts is a Maple Bacon donught with Maple icing and bits of bacon ontop. It sounds wrong but was actualy really nice.
Wednesday morning we got up early to go and ride Burnside Skatepark (from Tony Hawks Pro Skater 1 & 3) and got in about an hours riding before the skaters turned up and told us to leave. It's an amazing park with so many different lines and nothing like anything i'v riden before. the next stop was Peir Park skatepark also in Portland. This is a Dreamands skatepark, its well set out and has a 22foot full pipe! we had a mess about in the pipe as it started raining and the rest of the park became slipery. got some good pics, the best being this one.
That night we drove down to a university town, Eugene, and went to a couple of bars there before carrying on our journey through the night to San Francisco. We stopped to sleep in the car for 3 hours as we were all too tired to drive for a bit, but made it to Lex's relatives house just outside San Francisco by 2pm on Thursday. Stuart (not sure what relation to lex, but the father of the family) took us on a bit of a sightseeing tour that afternoon to get good views of the Golden Gate Bridge and into town to Lombard street.
After a good nights sleep having driven all the night before, we woke up at 6:15 ready to go and race down lombard street. We got there for 7:30am and managed to get 5 races in before there were too many tourists and cars in the way. Heres a photo of the action.
We got some good helmet cam footage of the racing and I have done a rough dual view edit of 1 of the races (will do a proper 1 when im home and on the more powerful desktop) which I will upload when we are next on a good internet connection
Next morning we got some pictures with the bikes at the golden gate bridge before continuing on to Post Office trails at Aptos (which unfortunatly wern't really riding very well as all the locals have been away at other comps recently) and then onto Santa Barbra.
Next update coming from Lex...
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