A Little Update
As the long hours in the cafe seem to be becoming the norm, some normalcy is also coming back into my life. I’ve got Three mountain bike rides in the last week and a couple of road rides, and who I’m even planing to head to Jasper or a Banff for a night this weekend.
What’s new? I’ve been working on a lot and it’s nice to see a plan falling into place. The Cafe’s been running well with amazing feedback from the community! With word of mouth spreading and bringing in more people daily, a music series that I’m very excited about starting to gain steam with some of Edmonton’s top young artists, getting some interest in my Grounds for Gardens campaign (http://www.goodearthsummerside.ca/grounds-for-gardens/), and have been getting some exposure from other local media agents such as www.greenedmonton.ca, www.urbanfarmer.ca, www.marketwire.com, and the
Tomato magazine. Check out the Cafe’s blog to stay up to date on what is going on at http://www.goodearthsummerside.ca/blog-and-albums/
I was also featured on a local photographers 100 people project www.harveyblog.com, today and suggest you go read his site as there’s a lot of interesting people featured on his site and he’s an AMAZING photographer!
Now it’s time to execute stage 2 of my marketing efforts!
From a personal note things are coming together with a little bit of time for some mountain and road biking again! It’s been great start trying to get back into race shape but a little late in the season to really have any success, Oh well start training now for next Summer! Took my first day off this to go do some XC in Hinton which was great, and I’m working on the details for a two week trip in August to Kayak the Saguenay Fjord in Quebec and some cycling on the Cabot Trail in Nova Scotia!
Hi Dustin, cool blog! Looks like you’re having fun! I found your site after searching for touring on Watea 94′s. I have a pair I use for downhill and really enjoy, however I’m starting to get into backcountry. I just ordered a set of skins for my k2 Pontoons believe it or not, (which are new skis for me, haven’t broke ‘em out yet, but got the Barons for them). I wanted to see what your experience with the Fischers were in the backcountry, how they toured for you etc.
Hey Domon sorry for the delayed reply. The watea’s tour well, for having only one ski to ski the resort and tour they’ve worked well me, with no complaints. However if I had the choice and what I’m looking at for next season is a two ski set up. i.e. a light but fat touring ski in a 175 to 180. (i.e. BD Drift, K2 Coombacks, G3 Zenoxide) and then a resort, big line, slackcountry and powder ski like a BD Zealot, G3 Manahattan in a 180 to 185. However the Watea’s have done a great job, and are often available discounted and have worked great. (Plus I hear the new versions are lighter with a slight rocker which would make the ski even better).