How I Got Here

After spending 20 years in small town Coaldale, A.B. I figured it was time to make some changes in my life, you know, go somewhere, do something. After taking an environmental sciences program at Lethbridge College, I got a job offer and place to stay with some great friends that had already been living in Cranbrook for a while. I packed up all my belongings and made my way 4 hours from home to grow some new roots.



Self  Loader - working on one of the blocks I would layout

 Cranbrook was interesting at first. It was the dead of winter and I barely knew anyone and I definatly didn't know what to do out here. I recieved a job at a resource company doing forestry work which was really cool and a lot of time was spent outside discovering new areas to play. That job was just a short term though and soon I found myself looking for new work. But there was something else that was coming into the scene with the summer months approaching, mountain biking.

I was trying to fit in somewhere in Cranbrook. I didn't look too many places before I found a newly opened bike shop, Favorit Cycles. I started hanging out there more and more and met some really cool people who are still really great friends. While partaking in one of the cases of beer I would bring by the shop on weekend nights, I found myself buying a new rig to get ready for the summer.

From then to now is history, literally. A lot of really great things have happened developing my riding. From many biking trips to places far, far away (Moab, Seven Summits - Rossland, Kamloops, Golden, Panorama, Salmon Arm, Transrockies - Southeastern B.C to Southwestern A.B.) to riding in what is now my backyard, I have put in many kilometers and loved almost every moment of it.

Seven Summits - Sept. 2008

Riding in my own backyard - Cranbrook, B.C.



Over the past couple of seasons riding has meant more and more to me and becoming more a part of my life. In the 2010 season I entered a handfull of races (Transrockies, Kootenay Krusher, Salty Dog, Sufferfest, Lungbuster) and have really enjoyed them and didn't do to shabby. Winter came way too soon that year and once again it was time to find something different to do for the winter months.