Along with the rest of Vancouver folk, we decided to hit up the Gulf Islands for the weekend. Hornby is a fabulous island full of adventure: in addition to the goodness and richness of most gulf islands it has some sweet mountain bike trails.
7 of us headed to Denman/Hornby for the weekend. Biking, swimming, drinking coffee, and tubing were on the agenda. I am still trying to heal so needed to still take it easy on the bike. The uphills are the biggest problem for the leg so there was some walking up/some pushing help and slow granny gear climbing (it was definitely difficult to not just giver...arg). In the end, lucky for my leg, we didn't end up biking as much as I probably would have liked had I been injury free but still had a good taste of what the Hornby trails are like.
Can't mention enough how much I love ridin' my Giant Trance XO. Steed Cycles in North Vancouver sells lots of sweet Giant bikes so go check them out. The trails on Hornby are smooth and fast. I really enjoy this style of riding. We did find some built up stuff and Andrew showed us how it was done with style...
intermixed with our ridin we stopped and had some delicious iced coffee at Vorizo's in Tribune bay, as well as a refreshing swim in the ocean (along with all the crowds but still amazing). Following our rides we hit up a secret lake on Denman and enjoyed some fresh water fun, dock and all....
Sunday night we headed to Comox and enjoyed a lovely potluck dinner down by the beach. Some poach camping was a great last night to a terrific long weekend.
We finished off the weekend tubing down the Pungeont river in Courtney. Marc did an awesome job of collecting tubes for us all. And so we all floated down the river enjoying the refreshing river and just relaxing.... a fab change to the usual biking....
The leg is feeling better already. I can't wait to be full swing back into biking and running.... woot woot! Trails here I come (soon!)...
live, love, laugh,...DREAM!
lina
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