Motorcycles & Mountains

Lets just say its been a busy June so far. Moving back to my parents place for the month while running the final errands has been a push and a half. Almost being ready to walk through the departure gates is a sigh of relief though. Here's what I've been up to lately.

How to Ride a Motorcycle in 6 Days

Monday June 2 - The start of my 6 day motorcycle class. Two days of theory, two days of practice in a parking lot followed by two days of road rides. All of this was done at Pacific Riding School (which I highly recommend) which ended up being a great six days of pure learning. As someone whose never ridden a bike before, It's amazing how powerful of a course this really is and the proof behind that is my new class 6 license! I immediately booked my road test the day after my final day and passed with flying colours :D

My favourite lesson of the 6 days was this one - "Canary Technique" by allowing a car/truck/pedestrian to enter an intersection first, you get to test the waters without putting yourself in harm's way. If there was to be an accident, it wouldn't happen to you but to the Canary thus keeping you safe and sound. Better the little rice rocket next to you than yourself! Almost sadistic in a way.. but whatever keeps you safe!

Mountains & Mountains

The Lions from Mt. Brunswick

I love to go hiking with Josiah. Only when I am not actually on the trail with him though, and that's simply because he is much more fit than I am. This results in a chirpy junior hockey player leagues ahead of me while I'm huffing and puffing behind him. Not that I'm unfit by any means, just that Josiah likes to set a grueling pace which I am then subjected to. We decided to hike The Lions which starts in Lion's Bay.. go figure. Karli decided to join along and off we were, following orange markers and arrow signs. Roughly a hour and a half into the steep hike with Josiah leading, we ended up missing a seriously unfortunately small turn off. Instead of leading us to our intended mountain, we were now in unknown territory however still led by orange markers. Our new trail led us right up a grotesquely congested stream bed, and up Mt. Brunswick. Needless to say we had a pretty quiet lunch when we discovered we were on the wrong mountain.. There were still gorgeous views, but none of us crossed off anything on our bucket list that day..Good times
Then the following week we hiked the Diaz Vistas Trail with a huge group of people. That was nice too.

Josiah & Mt. Brunswick

Channy
June 19 - 142 & 86B, Surrey