catching burbot

yesterdays catch: 15 burbot and one lake trout

Hiking Yukon Style

Climb a thousand vertical metres with dry feet and slide all the way down? Next time we're bringing a wooden toboggan.

The Rumours are True

Word got out. For a while now there has been a rumour going around that the Yukon boys (David, Colin, and myself) were leaving their training centres to return to their one true home. Yukon! We will be joining Yukon ski team members John Parry, Ray Sabo, and Fabian Brook to create our own “elite” branch off of the Yukon Ski Team. Team name and details are yet to be finalized (I’m open to suggestions), but the blueprints are laid out.

First thing I would like to make clear is that neither me, Colin or Dave despise training centres. We simply see the Yukon as better suited to fulfill our needs or desire to become a better athlete. 

There is the obvious benefit of extended on-snow training (late and early season), as well as the psychological benefit that I will call the “happy benefit”. As you know, the most important thing is for the athlete to be happy with what he or she is doing. Plain and simple, I am happier in the Yukon.

The structure of our team lies in our own hands, which is both a good and a bad thing. There is a sense of freedom to be running on a program you’ve created yourself, but also there’s the added stress of having to organize these things that would normally be taken care of for you on a training centre.

It will be somewhat of an experimental year to see how things turn out. That being said, we would not just throw our training centre positions out the window for something we believed wouldn’t work. After all, our goal is all the same: to become the best athlete possible.

I am flattered by the interest in our “team” from outside athletes but because of the low-key, unofficial (but highly professional), stand point we cannot support outside athletes. Sorry, maybe next year!

Our team has got off to a great start; spring skiing being at its best! The snow is going fast though!

Less time training has given me more time to build some willow furniture.

And practice my tomahawk and slack line.

The lakes are getting a bit soft for skiing…

  

But the ice fishing is still good!

epic spring ski videos to come!