Little Sis

Tough ass chick!

Vantastic

Good friends make funny cakes when you're feeling down...case and point.

The Tofino Fog...

It's like paddling into a dream.

Last day!

100 mile house

NO Vembur!

I haven't blogged in a long while but then again I hate waiting in lines and I hate waiting for downloads. So here I am. Tofino, B.C. after a wonderful spring season planting with a great crew and putting in over 500,000 tree's. I did a few fires that went moot very quickly and camped on top of mountains. Summer was all about lake showers and van livin. Fall was all about good times in Nelson and Ymir, again spending loads of time walking all over uncharted mountain tops...Fall is all Tofino, surfing and skating and chilling in a commune at Pooles Land. What a rad guy. Now that my feet are in a permanent frozen state I'm off to Mexico to brush up on my spanish and brush off the frost on my moustache.

Arghh!

I took this earlier this year at Mt. Robson...It's a 50,000,000 year old glacier. It's melting.

Sealing the deal

A month ago I took a trip up the sunshine coast. When I woke up these guys were doing their yoga.

Lunar Eclipse

True, this happened on february 21st but who's counting. I took this with my 400mm lens digital Canon rebel. This is in full eclipse mode.

Book Review: Siddhartha

Published before my mother was born (1951) and written in simplistic yet stylistic prose this novel of the spirit transcends time and place. Following a young man, Siddhartha, from a comfortable life with his family to a life of poverty and searching for enlightenment. When he tires of reaching for these pinnacles he searches farther for love. But finding love he also finds greed, wealth and sloth. He again abandons his life to poverty and simplicity and seeks the wisdom he felt near a river in his youth. Finding his place at the river he learns of suffering, rejection, peace and finally enlightenment. A must read for those searching for a higher sense.

Endgame: Book Review

What can I say about this book except that once again Derrick Jensen has crystalized what a small majority think about our destructive civilization and written it in prose that, unless you wish to deny the truth, will make you re-evalute your life, goals, and place on this planet.
In an explicit and unflinching manner we are able, with this book, to see too the very heart of our civilization problems. To the threat of living on a world without big fish (or small for that matter) in our oceans, rivers, and lakes. It reveals to us our passive and subdued methods of protest that do nothing but keep the peace amongst the people that do the most damage.
It reiterates real action. It speaks of true sustainability. If you are lucky enough to live in a country where you find this book and you notice a drastic deterioration of the landbase around you, (including the droughts, hurricanes, heat and cold snaps) please, do yourself a favor and accept we're fucked, free yourself from the shackles of civilization and read this book!

Winter and Spring 07/08

Whitewater, early season
Our first camping spot.
Our camp.
Spot #2 with seals and Ocean view
Rapids. I threw Justine in after this shot.

Nelson

This is my pass. It lets me snowboard everyday and I'm thankful for that.
Funny story. As usual I was heading to the hill first thing in the morning. It hadn't snowed but I had missed the last two days and I needed my fix. I stopped in at Sidewinder for some dark brewed coffee but they only had the dregs left for each of their selections...They mixed them together for me but i still felt jipped. Anyways, as I was leaving a fellow named Cory accosted me and asked if I would like to work today. "What do I have to do?" I queried. Set up stage for Blue rodeo and take it down. It would be two 4 hour shifts at a decent deal and I would get a pass. So since it wasn't prime snow I accepted. I dropped Jeff off back at home (he was to hungover to snowboard anyways) and went to the rink to set up. The day turned out to be a real piece of cake and the show was slightly interesting with a few good riffs. Otherwise, it snowed most of the day and the next day we hit fresh powder all day long!

Martinder Dylan
Beautiful Blue eyes
A happy eskimo. It's hard to tell she just killed a baby seal.

The only Jon Brown that matters
Gordie Ball showing off again.
Jim Cadman looking as he always does
Living legend...oops, spilled the milk

Top of the morning

On the mountains.

The Drive

Ola

Good day to all,

Ahem, let me clear my cuticles and get ready for a barrage of useless information about mylife (as will be called and trademarked after Apple takes over the world). As you know, or don't, I don't subscribe to facebook, or myspace, or any of those great sites that allow you to see people you knew, know or want to know and learn many interesting facts about them. Well sometimes I make up a log in name to see some picks of a lost companion but i rarely return. Unfortionatly mylife doesn't have time to spend on a computer hour after hour or day after day. Now a days and for 6 months a year, I spend most of it off in the bush, a small town or camping. The only time i see a computer or t.v. is in a hotel, school, library, or office (often times on a timer). I'm not knocking them...I'm just out of access. It's like old school 80's and early 90's I'm living. Sometimes I wish I could just youtube 'helicopter crashes' to my hearts content, but alas, we live in a cruel, cruel world.

I've been living out of a backpack pretty much since I left the fort in montreal in early 2006. I planted, as you know, fire fought, brushed, burned, surfed nicaragua, returned for planting and fires and here i am. August of 2007. Older, no doupt. Wiser, maybe. More mature? more like fermented. Learning from teachers and teaching the learning.

If you are my middle east (ontario/montreal) Friends or associates, I will be in town some time in the second half of this year after august. I will post the party time.



Right now I'm on fires. Fires are pretty good because you get a nice place to stay, food, and the job is .5% more exciting then most other jobs. This year I think I might plant some roots in B.C. and stay for the winter (at least part of it). We'll see.

Monte Lake

Eagle eyes

Nature

Guess who?

2007 Krew; Ruder, Isabella, Marine, Joe C.,Joe T., Rita, Snider, Doug



The tree is between the hand and the shovel



Rita, Planting another forest.


This is Doug and Ruder and maybe someone else...


Edward 40-hands. It's like being retarded before getting retarded.


Cards can be fun.


We saw this baby owl trying to commit suicide in the middle of the road...He had a broken wing


Cone cleaning in style


Choo-Choo

Gone Surfing! 2007

School Project

Kitchen 2007

The best part of surfing

A spot for you!

Torneo

Good friends

Burning in b.c. 2006

A driving shot of beautiful b.c., Train and all.

My Nicaraguan dirtbike

Maderas

Coffee table