Hiking on Bowen

Bowen Island

A wonderful Sunday trip over to Bowen Island to hike Mt Gardner guided by our urban hiking guru David Adams.

On the trail we ran into David and Harry Crerar. As it happened we had just had a discussion about David and his challenge to the running community to bag the local peaks:

http://www.clubfatass.com/events/bagger-challenge-2009

David congratulated us on bagging our first peak. He's up to 22 of 32 local peaks meeting the challenge criteria in a bit more than two months.

Go Canucks Go!

It's playoff time and the Vancouver Canucks are playing the Dallas Stars in the first round of what will be a two-month trip to the Stanley Cup. All the rest of us will long since have hung up our skates for the season. These are photos of Gary, Leeanne and Rob at a recent regular season game against Dallas - which we won - let's keep that trend alive! Thanks to Leeanne for these photos - the shot of the Canucks in action is particularly good; this image captures their top forward, defenceman and goalie in the same frame (Marcus Naslund, Kevin Bieksa and Roberto Luongo).

Gary's 18th or 19th Birthday

Happy Birthday Mr. Baerg! Sorry we had to take your money.

Sunshine Coast Trail Ride

We had a mountain biking adventure on the Sunshine Coast on the August 12/13 weekend with Great Exporations, a guiding company that does bike trips all over the world (www.greatexplorations.com). We rode from Halfmoon Bay to Langdale on single track on an organized 100km two day ride - Cynthia's first point-to-point mountain bike trip. It was hard work but lots of fun to be out on the amazing single track including Highway 102 and Highway 103, some epic single track. We were joined by friends Bryan and Wendi and met some great new friends and hope to see them next year! We both slept very well that Sunday night, Cynthia in particular!

Torrey Pines

Andrew, Gary Baerg and I headed for a weekend of golf at Torrey Pines in La Jolla, just north of San Diego. The golf course is spectacular and will host the 2008 US Open.