Archive for September, 2008
Saturday, September 27th, 2008
Adapt is Now Over
So I forgot the cable to upload pictures from my camera and not having a laptop I don’t have access to Photoshop at the moment. But the Adapt conference is now over and later this evening I’ll be on a plane to Vancouver, back on the West coast. Montreal has been fantastic and the folks at Adapt put on a really good show. When I get back home to Nelson I’ll write up a nice long post with pictures and everything that has happened in Montreal.
Thanks again to Montreal, Adapt, and the Softimage crew for Thursday night. Now off to Vancouver for a bit of hiking and a meet up with the folks from Polycount.
Wednesday, September 17th, 2008
On the road to Adapt 08
Tomorrow I leave on my way to Montreal for the Adapt 08 conference. I hooked up a ride from Nelson’s rideshare website to Canmore where I’ll hitch hike to Calgary and fly from Calgary to Montreal, arriving at 7:00am Friday. With the weekend before Adapt to take in the sights and sounds of Montreal it should be a great time.
Sunday, September 14th, 2008
Fat Tire Festival 08′
I just got back from Nelson’s own Fat Tire Festival, a 3 day event celebrating mountain bikes. Friday is registration day with a costume parade down Baker St, Saturday is the XC race and on Sunday is the 3x downhill on Morning Mountain. The course was dry and dusty and you couldn’t take a berm without sliding all the way through it. Every heat down had a crash with the final heat taking out the 2 top contenders in the last corner proving it’s not about how fast you can get down, its who you can take out to get the win.
Many thanks to the Nelson Cycling Club and all the volunteers who continue to put this great annual event together.
Wednesday, September 3rd, 2008
Keep it Wild!
Last week I had a chance to hike up Jumbo Pass in the Purcell’s. We came in from the Nelson side along Glacier Creek road so I didn’t get a chance to see any of the new construction that the developers had started until stopped by protesters. If you don’t know about Jumbo and the issues this pristine wilderness faces then check out keepitwild.ca and help stop the proposed development of this wilderness area.
Luckily we could stay at the cabin as you can see it started to snow, not bad for August 27th. According to the log book in the journal people have come up in the middle of October and had to probe for the outhouse because there was already 12 feet of snow.
