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Those guys rode it well. I bet that Dougie was taking all the sneaky Strava lines all the way down too. 

I hope Dougie gets what he needs before hibernation and that his show'biz days are done. He looks like a good guy - probably didnt mean anything threatening - he turned around as soon as those guys stopped. He was probably just bored and wanted a game of chase for a bit. Who could blame him?

I’d be interested in hearing how the fix went down. I also traded emails with DNV - they outlined why the previous bridge came down and why the initial design was what it was. 

The cut railing that showed up one night was vandalism, not the result of feedback. They may have built off of it but it started out differently. 

Hope that the fix works and sticks and was also DNV action.

I hear you Synchro but I’m looking at it like this:

He’s a good kid - gets in no trouble 

He loves to ride

Most (95%) of the time he is riding its him and I. He is almost 15. 

I cherish this time with him. I fear it’s short lived as most kids his age want nothing to do with hanging out with their dads. He and I spend so much time just hanging out riding - a good activity for him that hopefully will teach him life skills- and he’s an awesome rider and not below the need for an awesome bike. 

It comes down to maximizing his experience of riding with me for as long as I can. If he thinks riding with dad is wicked forever then that will be an incredible win. Whatever it takes to keep him fired up that’s what I’ll do because I will look back (in probably not that long) and say these were the best of days.

Heartbreaking news this AM that Jordie passed away after a crash in Mexico yesterday. 

I love Jordie for how friendly he is. What an incredibly tragic loss. 

I only met him a few times but I’ll miss him. There was something right with the world that Jordie was able to be Jordie, doing his crazy stuff. It’s not the same today.

I’d be curious to know what a G8 with your code would cost right now. I paid $557 for my G8 way back in the spring for the upcoming season.  I felt that was a good deal - maybe not? Did that within family pass with my son. 

I was also able to add full season pass Nordic for $50 - I skate ski and usually get the twilight pass - stoked to be able to do that during the day too. 

So full season pass $610 for Cypress and Nordic - wicked.

Yeah one of my biggest mistakes at Whis this year was not exploring those enough and just doing FT to the lift. 

Mackenzie River and Duffman are awesome. Took me too long to learn that.

That bear was just looking to hit trail and get his shred on. So much for Trails For All.

I had to cancel a business trip to Hong Kong a while back on the way to the airport as that was the first day of the protests taking over the airport. Air Canada said that my flight would take off but it didnt know where it would land as events were unfolding fast and while planes were allowed to land in HK that day, none were allowed to depart. Air Canada didnt want to be accumulating planes at the HK airport. So I cancelled and rebooked after things settled down and changed meeting location from HK to Macau, landing in HK. The ferry between the two is neat as you dont leave the secure side of the arrivals - the ferry is just like another connection.

Anyways - was there for fewer than 24hrs and this is what I saw:

I took the new bridge from the airport to Macau. Its the most incredible bridge Ive ever seen. 55km long to get you from HK to Macau. Easiest way to do that was a shuttle bus - there were maybe 10 people on it? Most interesting is that the entire time on that bridge, I didnt see another vehicle going either direction. I could see as far as the eye could see ahead and behind - not one vehicle. Crazy to think that you have both directions of a 55km bridge to yourself (although if another vehicle was 20km ahead going in same direction I wouldnt have seen it).

I had an long business meeting so we booked a room in the Macau conf center - connected to all the hotels. It was massive - maybe the biggest conf center Ive ever been in. What else was going on there? ZERO. We were the only occupied room in the whole place - hundreds of meeting rooms.

The ferry terminal in Macau is a gorgeous new building. Big. Multiple ferries per day from two different ferry providers. EMPTY. Just like if you would walk into the grand entrance of Central Station in NYC and you are the only person in it. I walked from one side to the other and saw employees only one pass. My ferry probably sat 800 people. Maybe 25 on board?

It was bizarre. All these amazing new things but no users. Macau itself was full of tourists I guess - shopping and restaurants all busy - but the infrastructure between it and HK and the conf center ghost towns. I thought that it was interesting.

My sons is a stock 2019. They offered all black this year (but with an air shock). Mine is also a stock colour from 2018 (matte dark grey) but it was a pros movie bike so it’s got orange lettering to make Rocky visible.

My Slayer is working out well enough I got one for my son!

Lucky kid. Ended up with a 2019 full XT with full factory including a coil, carbon bits and Stans Flow. She’s a beaut!!

Yeah is that route to the 2nd an actual GPS track or is it some freehand pipedream? I love that idea too. Looks to me like an actual GPS route, but I wonder how it deals with the private land of the naked people?

And re the Fromme climbing trail - its beautiful - you can find some techy sections on it if you want to skip the go arounds but in my view its 1000% better than the road.....I find that most of my climbs these days have significant hike-a-bike sections so I find it refreshing myself to find a windey, single track route that doesnt meanander too much that is still a hefty climb (Im usually pretty beat by the time Im at the top). I like it more now than I did a few years ago when it was technically harder. I get to keep my pace going easier without disruptions of f'ing up segments..and Im not hiking some god forsaken out and back with the bike on my back!!! WIN!!!