Preface: I wrote this in 2006 fully expecting to return in 2007 but much to our chagrin, Lutsen (on Minnesota's Northwestern shore of Lake Superior) discontinued lift serviced mountain biking following the 2006 season. This was our fourth visit in 5 years and still Lutsen remains the great big untapped potential. Joining me, JF "Deer... Continue Reading →

On this, the sixth installment of our annual foray into the Purcells, we assembled another great group of Gord's Bike Club members and ripped it up at Panorama from the 15th to the 24th of August. Day 1 Saturday Well, ladies and Gentlemen, it looks like we finally got it right! Our departure time, anyways. Leaving from... Continue Reading →

I lost my dad, an uncle and more than one friend to suicide. Recently several people close to me have had their lives upended because someone in their family decided to call it quits and I thought maybe I should say something in the wake of Chris Cornell's suicide. I've spoken out about this publicly... Continue Reading →

So technically today was Isabelle's last day here at Mont Sutton... And everyone knows that I wasn't going to let the day end without saying something here on Facebook for almost everyone to see. Isabelle called me one day in 2014 and asked me how things were going at Owl's Head... Without saying much more... Continue Reading →

Orma Jane, on the 27th of June 2017 it will have been exactly a year since you've left us. The thought of you not being around anymore still takes my breath away, except not in a good way. The feeling of vacuum that your departure left behind is still palpable. Some people simply fade away... Continue Reading →

A lot of what you'll read on here I originally wrote for the old "Gord's Ski and Bike" Website. While I shut down Gord's in May of 2013 and subsequently shuttered the website shortly thereafter, I nonetheless wanted to find a way to preserve some of my articles for posterity without necessarily having to host... Continue Reading →

We do this every year. Load up a bus, drive through lovely Saskatchewan and Alberta in order to hit our most favorite gravity-assist playground on earth: Panorama for 6 days of tremendous gravity-assisted mountain-biking with a pit-stop in Calgary at C.O.P. for a warm-up along the way. We take 30 or so of our best riding buddies... Continue Reading →

Usually I have lots to say about any given trip, I do my honest best to wax endlessly about how great it was, how much fun we had, how fantastic the participants were... Except this time, for some odd reason, I am speechless. It was, to be brief and to the point: The best trip... Continue Reading →

Where do I begin? First off, we decided to ditch our planned ride to Ingolf because the forecast was calling for 100% of heavy rain - all day. Brian our resident bridge-builder and all around great guy suggested Clear Lake and I rubber-stamped that idea... We'd never been... and while Brandon Hills (our usual go-to-place... Continue Reading →

  Our first Gord's Ski Test was in 2001 when JF and a dude named Frank Roberts hit Tremblant for what grew into a great big tradition of Gord's Ski Tests. Before we go any further, let us clarify that our ski tests were never journalistically perfect nor were they intended to be, they were... Continue Reading →