Trevor doing the Tour Divide

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My buddy Trevor Browne is racing the Tour Divide. What’s that you ask?

“Tour Divide is a solo, self-supported mountain bike race on all 2,745 miles (4,400 KM) of ACA’s epic Great Divide MTB Route. With an average time-to-completion of three weeks in the saddle, this grand tour is the longest, most challenging MTB race on the planet. It’s a contest for the ultra-fit but only if ultra-prepared for myriad contingencies of backcountry biking.”

That’s crazy.

4,400 KM in 3 weeks

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He has provided instructions for how to REALLY follow along…
(they all carry real time GPS devices so you can see where they are)

“Everyone keeps asking how they can follow the race this year. Well its easy. By going to the following 2 sites you can literally follow my every move.

The sites are:
tourdivide.org
MTBcast.com

If you go to the tourdivide.org website you can follow the race via the SPOT and google maps. Simply go to the menu on the right hand side of the page and click on the tab that says leaderboard. That will bring you to the SPOT leaderboard where all the racers will be seen as blue dots. Then just scroll over each dot to see who it is. You can also check out the blog portion of the site where you can read updates during the race.

The other way to follow the race is through the MTBcast.com website where you can actually here my voice as I call in at certain checkpoints along the way. On the right hand of the site you will see the 2009 Tour Divide Racer Audio list. From there scroll down the racer list until you see my name (at the bottom). Click on my name and it will bring you directly to my audio posts.

See you on the map!”

It starts Friday the 12th of June. Trevor’s a great guy (he helped find my new bike this past winter!!) and an amazing athlete. Cheer him on and send him your best wishes.

Trevor’s biking blog | tourdivide.org

Elder surfboards update

Johan is in the process of starting back up to make some more fine boards after taking the winter off.

“The spring season is upon us, and if you are like me you are stoked to be getting some cold early season waves. This post is to let everyone know that I am in the process of finding new digs to shape in. If you are interested in getting a new board shaped for the coming season or some travel destination, get in touch with me and we can discuss what you are looking for in a board. Then as soon as I am setup the shaping will begin. The contact info is all on the contact page.”

http://eldersurfboards.com/site/contact/

Playing for Change – ‘Stand by Me’


Playing For Change | Song Around The World “Stand By Me” from Concord Music Group on Vimeo.

Watch and wait for it to kick in…

playingforchange.com – From the award-winning documentary, “Playing For Change: Peace Through Music”, comes the first of many “songs around the world” being released independently. Featured is a cover of the Ben E. King classic by musicians around the world adding their part to the song as it traveled the globe.

Leah’s photos of Marge’s farm house


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My little cousin Leah has taken a whole set of great photos of our Grandma’s house up in Gray Valley on the Rouge River (near Huberdeau).

I spent quite a bit of time here as a child and love the place. I’ve always thought of it as “a farm house of a very smart woman”. Sensible, thoughtful and beautiful.

Some of the colours in her house will inspire me forever.

See the whole set here:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/leah-photos/sets/72157616734767706/