Japow in Japan - a risky last-minute change of our arrival date landed us into the biggest storm of the last decade & an all-time week
Flippin' out, post-sound-ceremony in Mexico
Winter camping
Featured ripping in a skate magazine
Big ol' cliff drop
Some of the 25 design & business awards from over the years
design work featured @ YVR
An absolute dream, manifest. A home I designed & co-contracted/built, on 30 acres. I still can't quite believe it.
The best feature in the home I designed & co-contracted, the pillow nook was magic for watching the snow fall & for 'camp outs' by the fire
I couldn't decide on my custom glass-covered backsplash until I got a birthday card that said HOLY FUCK WOW. I knew INSTANTLY, so funny
Community yoga
Kootenay adventures
Skate/camping tour in Oregon
Sometimes when the pressure is on you gotta pilfer pillows from the couch & sleep under the desk
I love preparing big batches of all kinds of ultra-healthy food & drink, including this 6 hour chaga tonic
Bhakti on the beach in Baja
Co-facilitating "The Art of Being Present" 3 month workshop
Permaculture Design Certificate course - cob construction
Solstice spiral ritual
Paris
River swim
Long story, after 5 miles thru the hills in Baja barefoot, we put on the flippers to protect our destroyed feet
Secret beach
On biz in Shanghai
Snowmobiles + snowboards = heaven
One of my skateparks
One of my projects in Calais, France
Skatepark design
Building a ramp with the homies
SoCal skate week
Skating where you're not supposed to is the best
My portable sauna / cold plunge, post-community yoga practice
Where would I be without my friends? Sauna construction
51st birthday with nephew, Sis & Maw
Maw! I owe so much of who I am to this truly amazing lady
THIS GUY. Dad. Once again, some of my very best traits come straight from this guy. RIP Pops & THANK YOU
Winter ocean dip
AST-1 Backcountry Avalanche Safety training
Sometimes a quick truck-camping getaway is just what the doctor ordered
Tootin' around out there
New Year's party with the neighbours in my old front yard
I ADORE MY TRUSTY STEED
No better way to see the world
I love the places this thing gets me
A couple more business awards, 25 in total over the years
Receiving the BC Creative Achievement Award for Applied Art & Design
Such a satisfying build, using trees I felled & dried for a few years
I LOVED learning to run an excavator, it gets pretty zen after some time
Bolting together the arches for my old workshop, preparing to erect
I learned to come out of being in a rush, back into enjoying the moment, working my 30 acres from raw land to completed paradise
Completely outrageous project, building a MoTI standard roadway so I could sell a couple of pieces of my 35 acres
The view from what I thought was going to be the home I was going to die in. Life had other plans :)
A herd of elk took refuge on my 30 acres, often right on my front lawn
I love organizing & getting creative with Goals & Tasks, the 4'x8' chalk board I made
I loved living off wood heat, falling, bucking & splitting felt great
Every boy's dream made reality: my own snowplow. My driveway was so long no company would take the job, so I did. FUN
Living in my trailer while we built the house I designed
That chainsaw ain't gonna sharpen itself
10 months to design my dream-home, waiting until I could feel in my bones it was perfect
Custom door-pull / knob I made from my grandpa's WWII compass
This is how I negotiated both sales of the properties I broke off my 35 acres & sold. No realtors, just tea & in-person connection
47th (?) birthday on my new deck, with some of the best people I've ever met. I've kept in touch with many of these beauties since moving
Learning wildcrafting, which flowers & leaves are edible & / or medicinal. We harvested a fair bit just from nature's bounty, so satisfying
If you're gonna have an outdoor clawfoot tub, it seemed to me like I should make it golden. Long process, totally worth it