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Click Here for Official BCBR Stage Six Information Page

The Best of Squamish

Situated at the head of Howe Sound and surrounded by mountains, scenic Squamish is quickly gaining the reputation as Canada’s Outdoor Playground. Hikers, climbers, paddlers, bikers and surfers galore flock to Squamish for its vast array of activities. This stage starts and finishes in this beautiful community and offers up the best trails of two legendary singletrack races combined – the Test of Metal and Gear Jammer. This one will not disappoint!!!

Stage Time: 4:50:29
Stage Category Placing: 37th out of 50

Pictures from Stage: CLICK HERE

Custom Map of Stage: CLICK HERE

Blog Post of Stage: CLICK HERE

My Tweets from Stage 6:

7am in Squamish and it’s already cookin’ Gonna be a hot, hard stage through the mountains here. Luckily, base camp isn’t moving. #BCBR
6:57 AM Jul 3rd from TwitterBerry

Stage 6 was a doozy. Great mix of technical climbs and challenging descents. Racking up quite a collection of war wounds! Resting now. #BCBR
4:11 PM Jul 3rd from TwitterBerry

Pushed hard again, hopefully moved up a spot 😉 one day left, so time to do gear check and prep. Bike is faring better than body! #BCBR
4:13 PM Jul 3rd from TwitterBerry

Day is done, gone the sun. Off to Whistler early in morning for 7th and final stage of #BCBR. Managed to move up to 32nd in our category.
9:42 PM Jul 3rd from TwitterBerry

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Published January 5, 2006

Feliz Ano Nuevo!

Well, Happy New Year to one and all! Sorry for the recent lapse in communicating with the world. You see, Jody and I were off in Cuba enjoying a week of fun and sun over the holiday season. I’ll post a few more entries over the next few days about Cuba, but generally speaking, it was a fantastic week! Lots of pictures can be seen here. Every day was between 22 and 29 degrees, with mainly bright and sunny skies. Mind you, yours truly didn’t pick up much of a tan, but rest assured, I drank plenty of rum and spent much time in the water 🙂 The ironic exception to the weather of the week was on New Year’s Eve! We started our day off with plenty of sun and beach walking, followed by my attempts at sailing and windsurfing. From there, Jody and I took out a tandem kayak and went out snorkelling in the water near the hotel. Lots of fun fish. We had an underwater camera, so hopefully some of those shots will turn out. Later on, we had supper at one of the A La Carte restaurants, which we’d booked early in the week. It was very nice, a good way to have New Years Eve supper, away from the big chow hall. The meal was a feat of gastronomic indulgence, as we had a full 7 course meal lasting 3 hours! However, as you can see by this picture, sometime around 10pm, the skies unleashed monsoon-like rain! It was insane. In the span of 15 minutes, the normally dry walkways all over the resort were under ankle-deep water! The rain kept up for almost 2 hours. This made it rather unpleasant to attend the mainly outdoor festivities that the resort had planned out. I feel sorry for all the work they had put in only to be ‘dampened’. As a result, Jody and I ducked back to our cozy room to enjoy the evening in dry comfort. After all, we had a nice covered balcony from which to watch the world. I’ll say this much for the Cubans and New Year’s. They LOVE fireworks! They had shows that were almost the same calibre as the Canada Day fireworks in Ottawa! No joke! It was amazing. At midnight, they had a show of almost a half hour. It was a great way to enjoy the complimentary bottle of champagne that the staff had placed in every room (and complimentary quart of rum, which we took home).