DOUBLE DUCK 634 WORLD TOUR
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So hey, here is my updated after much delay. I only use my phone for internet access, so I've been dreading doing all of this , but it's a holiday Monday, I'm enjoying a nice coffee and some great music (flying lotus - lovers melt 2 mix) so I'm going to power through it. Sorry that there won't be a ton of photos of me in the ducks here, it was really really really hot in the PNW this summer. I mostly just ride bikes, eat food and drink beer. I also work as a butcher for q company called two rivers. We supply most of BCs finer resturants with all manner of meats, fresh sausage and charcuterie.
Okay, to start off here are the bikes in started and finished the tour with. Both in the obligatory standing on their own fashion in a couple of iconic spots in mountain biking on Mt Seymour in North Van. First bike is the old Rocky Mountain Altitude and new one is the new Rocky Mountain Element, cause little bikes are more fun.
Right after getting the ducks I went home to Ontario for a quick trip to see family and go to Do Make Say Thinks record release/first headlining show in 5 years.
The woods at 3 stage just outside of Collingwood. This is where I started biking 17 years ago
Last few photos were the unassuming but great pork buns at momofuku along with the oasthouse collab peach beer. The other two are of the dry age room of cumbraes on queen. Without a doubt Ontario's best butcher shops, they have a few locations in Toronto and have been around forever
After finishing up downtown I headed west into little Italy and hit up the new volo. Their original location on yonge was one of the first if not the first speciality beer bars in Canada and it was certainly the best. They got shifted by their landlord so the shit pub/cafe next door could expand into their space. Thankfully their new location is even better. I had a couple local ontario beers and then indulged in their special bottle event and had the crooked stave persecia and the 2015 almanac dogpaatch grand cru. Both were fantastic. After that I went to burdock on bloor, just a quick walk away where I tried a couple of their beers along with their fantastic in house made sourdough.
After all that beer I needed food, so I enjoyed a nice walk into Kensington market to queue up at seven lives tacos. It was very hard to walk past AF1 Caribbean , but I really like tacos.
After that I walked over the show at the Danforth music hall, where I proceeded to take no photos hahha. Then I went home. In between I cooked a full beef tenderloin on the bbq for my parents brother and aunts at home in collingwood. But someone managed to take no pictures in the excitement of the day. I got very lucky with a full row to myself for the flight back home to the mountains
After I got home my mom sent me this photo from blue mountain just outside of Collingwood where I snowboarded and rode bikes growing up…..Can you tell they got alot of rain through the spring and into the early summer?
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Oh hey! It's the actual pants were here to see! After getting home I almost immediately headed up to Pemberton for my companies annual staff camping trip at our original farm
Excuse the terrible hat, I don't wear hats in the summer, so I just grabbed something from Canadian tire on the way. The weather up there was wild. Shorts and t-shirts and swimming in the river during the day and ducks and a UHF as soon as the sun was going down. We all got there late Friday afternoon(about 40 of us total) and proceeded to get far too intoxicated as people who work in food tend to do. The guys in the photo with me are two of my fellow butchers and good friends who I've spent the last 18 months with, hanging out in a fridge breaking beef and pork and listening to music/being innapropriate.We started put Saturday morning slow with coffee and some breakfast sandwiches but quickly found our pace (started drinking again) and we soon got down to the river to start cooking the nights dinner and make some tacos for lunch. Our sales team(one of whom spent a couple years living and cooking in Mexico) put in a huge effort making all the pickles , salsa, hot sauces and meats. We had marinated skirt steak and mole pulled chicken thighs and the tortillas came from one of Vancouver's Mexican restaurants who make their own Masa. A pretty good start to the day. Dinner was Two bone in sirloin butts. Which include the top sirloin and the coulotte/pichana. Along with some smoked chicken , and a ton of raclette cheese cooked on cast iron over the fire. Shortly after eating the night descended into madness. Fortunately we had a good late night snack.
I then finally went back to work and cut way too many bison for a person that had that much fun over the weekend
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At some point I went by and saw TJ at The Shop in Vancouver. If you are in town make sure you swing by. TJ is giving brands like Iron Heart , The Flat Head , Stevenson, Sugar Cane Mister Freedom, Nine Lives , Gladhand &CO and many more representation in Canada, not to mention he is just an awesome guy. TJ took this picture of me looking oddly serious in front of The Shop(perhaps because it was really really really hot)
A nice view of Vancouver
I finished a Mt Seymour darkside lap on Canada Day down in deep cove and went for a swim here
And spent the afternoon at third beach enjoying some beers and views with friends
Big smooth, a classic North Shore feature on Mt Fromme, a portrait, and some action
And a not so classic, but rad new feature on the rad new Boogie Nights Trail on Seymour
Went biking at some point there in Mission BC, out in the Fraser Valley. Getting out of the city is nice
My friend Jen raced her first full summer as a pro on the bc enduro series this summer and was lucky enough to score an invite to her first Enduro World Series event in Whistler. I went up for the weekend to cook all the meals for her and her partner/mechanic and also my good friend JF. I also found some time to ride bikes and drink beer with JF. Jen came a very respectable 25th and breached the top 20 on the ridiculously technical / terrifying in the dry dusty conditions second stage. One of the lines she took in practice on stage 2 wasnt even getting touched by some of the guys . This was august, unfortunately too hot to wear the ducks. Those are the self edge / sugar cane 11oz okis
At some point after that I cooked this 2.5 pound bone in ribeye after a bike ride with some friends. Up to 125 in a 250F oven and then seared HARD over the chimney starter
I also took a picture of this order I cut for a local resturant , so why not
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We are opening a new retail space and eatery this Friday so the last few pics are of our new dry age room. Some photos from brewery and the beast Vancouver (which I sadly did not attend this summer) and some new kitchen porn. The last photo is our signature dry aged cheeseburger. Which I think has too much lettuce on it even if the food photographer disagrees. It's not that much lettuce for real. Come by if you are on Vancouver ! You'll see me in a little glass box most likely wearing a 107, 127 or 86! I'd love to come out and chat.
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Thanks for the update @DanielAFC
@_streetshark the next spot has become free so if you want them they can come to you next?
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Sounds good! I'll pm @DanielAFC my address.
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And last but certainly not least a post wash update on where the ducks stand! They are looking pretty damn good and are still holding up really well structurally for how much they've gone through. Not even really a sign of any holes yet other than the hidden rivets starting to peak which just looks badass. The different hues of blue and white really need to be seen to be appreciated and the patch is looking unreal. I'm going down to Portland this week to see the war on drugs and eat too much food, if they are going to someone in the states now I'll take them down and send them off so there's no mess around with customs and huge delay with the border. I'll probably throw up some photos of some Portland stuff in here as well as a bonus for taking so long!
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Great photos @DanielAFC ! The food and biking looks incredible.
Where is your new retail/eatery located? I am in Van for an art show this weekend and I will try to stop in for a burger.
cheers!
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Hey Mitchell thanks! Was certainly a full morning uploading everything but at least it's warm now! The shop is in North Van at 180 Donaghy, in behind capilano mall. Be sure to let me know if you stop by!
I'll send the ducks off to @streetshark later this week then as today is a holiday and I'm leaving for Portland tomorowb before the sun is up! Pretty rad that they'll be going for one side of the country to the other!
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I enjoyed your writeup @DanielAFC and loved the looks of all that meat. If I make it to Vancouver I'll be sure to drop by to try out your stuff. Well done!
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Great tour leg @DanielAFC [emoji122] Awesome shots of the different cuts of meat [emoji491] left me feeling hungry [emoji39]
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Perfect! I'm excited to see how they're looking in person and spend a month beating them up.
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So the jeans showed up about a week ago! So far I've worn them while doing some renovations to the house I bought a few months ago as well as at work. I didn't get any picture while doing the renos but I did manage to get some pictures at work. I'm an electrician in the truck shop at an open pit mine. I usually work on 200-300 ton trucks and some times the front end loaders used to load them. I'll try and post again in a few weeks!
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Fucking hell - you work on some serious machinery!.. Can't wait for more pics!..
Yeah I've only been working this job for about 5 months now so I'm still in awe with it all myself! Im hoping to get into the field sometime this month so I can get some pictures of the mine itself.
