A Gypsy Slideshow

This is a slideshow I made this spring/summer for a BIT, a Broadreach Instructor Talk- think TED Talk and then add some awesome, random themes and ideas. Every instructor had to do one and be under 5 mins, so I chose "Modern Gypsy" and did a quick dialogue on my life as a modern gypsy with all the moving around and such. I didn't have much content plus I hate talking in front of a crowd, so I decided to whip up this quick slideshow to fill the remainder. I took 90% of these photos. I owe credit to Nick Bueckert, Daniel Oselette, Ryan Bell, Shane Yargeau and Mario Duarte for the photo's that I appear in. Here it is...

Gypsy Slideshow


Do people enjoy slideshow's? or is it better to scroll through?

Just curious...

PEACE

It's Been A While

Wow, what a busy spring and summer. I haven't had much time to post stuff on this. I think the last post was in March! Well there have been many adventures since.

After my EPIC snowboard trip with my brother Nick, I went out fishing for geoducks a few more weeks and then headed off to North Cackalacky for a much needed refresher in Wilderness First Responder and then staff training for my summer gig with Broadreach.

Once training completed I was blessed to have such amazing friends from the past put me up and showed me the awesome side of Raleigh and Baltimore. A big thanks to Mark, Marc, Michelle and Darren and Jan. Another thanks to this cool girl I met at Staff Training, Jess, for inviting me to Cape Hatteras for a weekend with some very sick kite surf pros from Jersey and California. It was pretty amazing to meet these peeps and the weekend was all-time. There was a tropical storm heading straight for us and it created some amazing wind for these pros.







Mid June I shipped out to Nassau in the Bahamas for a week waiting for my students to arrive. During this week it was Junkanoo, a couple weeks celebration for Bahamian Independence Day.  My students showed up and we headed to San Salvador for a week on Marine Bio and snorkelling around this sick island.











Panama was the next stop on my summer adventure. I had a few days to scout around Panama City and the coastline of the Chiriqui Province. There was this crazy bumpy goat road that wound on for 2 hrs going up and down some pretty gnarly mountains. The road is unpaved and is terrible during the rainy season, which was exactly when I was there. There were few rivers to drive through and some questionable bridges to cross but it was really worth it. I spent the night in Pixvae, a sleeply fishing village in the middle of nowhere with no electricity during most of the day/night. I stayed in a unfinished "hostal" with open windows. I had one of the best sleeps ever! The sound of bugs, birds, monkeys and whatever else may have lurking was surreal. Especially coming from DT Vancouver and all I hear is cops, ambo's, and firetrucks all day and night. The next stop was a boat trip to Isla Simca, a private island owned by Italian billionaire Jean Pigozzi. This is where the Liquid Jungle Lab is located. Also there is a pimp mansion used by celeb's and goes for $28,000 a night or $200, 000. Clearly we stayed in the Lab which was set up for Biologists of all kinds and is affordable.

The trip itinerary was crazy. It went something like this: Dive Isla Simca and Isla Coiba; surf Santa Catalina; hike, zipline, whitewater raft and climb Boquete and cap it off with some sailing in San Blas. And I got paid to do this. Pretty sweet gig if you ask me, just saying.

Anyhoo....
There is much to tell from this trip and I might just write some random adventures should I get the time.
Plus I have an arsenal of content now from this long pause of writing due to snowboard trips, fishing, 'Merica, Bahamas and Panama.

Later Homes

Gnar Inc.: Summer Fun

Gnar Inc.: Summer Fun: Here are some photo's I have been working on from the summer. These are from my most recent trip to Panama. Enjoy. ...

Summer Fun

Here are some photo's I have been working on from the summer. These are from my most recent trip to Panama. Enjoy.

The Road to Gnar, Via the Powder Highway

Powder Highway Map to GNAR

And we're back after a few weeks of radio silence.

I'm proud to say my brother Nick and I are on the road trip of a life time! 2 weeks of Kootenay snow exploration capping it all off with a 3 day cat-skiing with Selkirk Wilderness.

We started the trip off right with a pit stop at Manning Park Resort off the #3. They had received snow all week accumulating 92 cm of freshie goodness. We got there early and got 1st tracks all day! There may have been 40 people tops (including staff) and we scored all day. 

A local TV station, CBC, were up there interviewing people about their thoughts of Manning Park closing down indefinitely. They found us and this is how it turned out... 'the Interview' 

We are currently in Penticton BC, visiting family, stocking up for the mountains and frothing for the next leg.

Next stop Castlegar to link up with an old buddy from high school and gear up for a few days of Red Resort and Whitewater

http://www.skiwhitewater.com/

http://www.redresort.com/

If you have any tips or suggestions on point of interests, please feel free to write a comment below.

Cheers and may Ullr puke his brains out on us!

Off Diving the Gnar for Urchins North Vancouver Island and Haida Gwaii for a month

Good news, I'm off commercial diving for a month with MIke and Gary Lagos for red sea urchins. This should be a good adventure up to some pretty remote and pristine islands and fjords in Middle and Northern BC. It's hard work but can pay very well, which is handy, I have a EPIC trip booked with my brother to Selkirk Wilderness Cat-skiing for a few days and then hitting the local "resorts" Whitewater and Red Resort.

Back in a month.....

More Banked Slalom Pics

Well here are some shots on Saturdays qualifying. Unfortunately the PA system was quiet and it was almost impossible to hear. I know for sure I got pics of Travis Rice, Terje Haakonsen, and Sammy Luebke. I only shot on Saturday when it was foggy, but some of them turned out pretty good with a little tweaking.

Travis Rice

the top of Chair 6

unknown

unknown ripper making his way down

Terje Haakonsen

Travis Rice

here's a link to the rest of the shot's on Flickr: Gnar Inc.