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fly, climb, kayak, build: Nepal
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Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). And I climbing near Vancouver. Maria's brother Mark learns the Line. Living in Kelowna, Canada, getting involved in bigger wall climbing (multi pitch/alpine/aid), learning thermal flight and hoping to fly XC. Getting involved with alternative energies as an design engineer. View my complete profile. CLICK to sort by fly, climb, kayak, build. I have moved to Canada to look for work in alternative energies. RSS Feed: Rocky Mountain Institute. Falls Creek, Fiordland NZ.
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fly, climb, kayak, build: Skiing and Flying
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Dream come true, skiing and flting on my favourite ski hile, Revelstoke. Mt Begbie in the back ground. Wonderful that the ski hill welcome paragliders to fly. very thankful. I met up with Nathan from Calgary. Really fun to meet up with friends to fly with, and get some suggestions on launching and landing in skis. Some man for one man. March 28, 2012 at 1:40 PM. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). And I climbing near Vancouver. Maria's brother Mark learns the Line. View my complete profile. Glynn Foster:...
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fly, climb, kayak, build: Flying New Denver
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We got very lucky with a flight from Idaho Peak look out, New Denver. The flight was 3 hours and about 17km. Emmanuel took some great shots. Xenia pointed out that we need to be better prepared for these longer xc flights, including bear spray, tree extraction, extra food, spare clothing, matches, contingency plan, better communication with the retrieve person. (what else did i miss? There is no cell phone reception in New Denver and it pretty easy to depend to phones. August 17, 2010 at 12:47 PM. BC Hyd...
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fly, climb, kayak, build: Electric Bike - Bionix
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Electric Bike - Bionix. This is the motor in the hub. The battery has a frame that hold panniers which is cool. The control is pretty nice, you select the amount of assistance or generation you want, sadly the speed is all wrong because i changed the wheel diameter. its been working great, but the sad part is i may have to buy a car as well, im not sure how great this will be in the snow and with a 30km commute im not sure i can do it every day. You forgot to mention the take me home button! Still super ...
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fly, climb, kayak, build: An early end to a great season of skiing
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An early end to a great season of skiing. A wonderful new years trip at Rogers Pass,. Maria touring up on a bluebird day. A great group for amazing ski days, L to R, Devin, me Kendall, Cailan, Maria,. Cailan and I at Asulkan Hut looking forward to powder on the way down. And then it when a bit wrong. A bad landing from a jump at Kicking Horse in Golden. Up until the accident it was a great day with Cailan in mid januray, I love the Purcells and i love hanging out in Golden. That screw looks suspicious.
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fly, climb, kayak, build: Bugaboos
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The Bugaboos are in the Purcell mountains south of Golden, BC. Amazing granite climbing about glaciers - a real treat. We got lucky with 6 days of good weather. Cailan was the perfect alpine climbing partner, keen for early starts and pretty big days. climbs included Kain Route on Bugaboo Spire, West Ridge on Pigeon Spire and Kraus-McCarthy on Snow Patch. lots and lots to go back for. Picture - top on snowpatch, and im looking pretty tired. Amazing what you can do with PhotoShop these days ;). Living in ...
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fly, climb, kayak, build: Family and Flying
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I had a great 30th birthday back in the Uk with Family. My surgeon said if I focused on rehab I could spend my trip in the UK hiking and get back to flying for the summer. It was great to be home with my sisters and parents hiking and biking. Now im back in Canada and flying when the weather permits. The strange and unreliable summer is frustrating with many un-flyable days. At home at Caurus House with Mum, Sister Sarah and Rachel. 30yrs old and confused by a champagne bottle - oh dear! I have moved to ...
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fly, climb, kayak, build: The Cabin
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This is a quick blog update from Christmas. above is the 2010 ymir ski group. absolutly amazing to have met such an excited backcountry ski bunch. Below was on our way to ski at the Kootenay Pass, first moose ive seen in Canada. I spent the last couple of weeks working up at the Mica hydro generation dam north or Revelstoke, below is my new(ish) car with the 500kV switch gear behind. Its pretty cool if you like power generation and transmission. They have built a log burner inside - perfect! I am looking...
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fly, climb, kayak, build: Kayaking on the Ottawa
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Kayaking on the Ottawa. Rachel Lynskey is travelling in Canada for the next few weeks. We headed to the Ottawa river for some play boating. The water is warm and the shuttles are short. Neither Rachel or I have ever really learnt to play boat. There isnt really great play boating in NZ, not that Ive found anyway. So we took a course, we didnt learn much as we spent most of the time trying to spin. sadly no blunts, back stabs or aerial screws for us! Finally a couple of humbling shots. I promised Emma...
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fly, climb, kayak, build: Yoga
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I have been finding it difficult to motivate my self for self practice so i have been playing with http:/ www.yogajournal.com/podcast/. Which has a series of fun 20min workshops aimed at stuff that often gets missed from classes; arm balanced, ab workouts and inversions. Be great if anyone who tries it could let me know what they think. I really liked the shoulder-opening postures. Great for post-climbing stretches! September 30, 2010 at 2:07 PM. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Click the pic)Learning...