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Shawn

I am here for Dating, Serious Relationships, Friends and Networking

About Me


The biggest challenge in my life has been the decision to move away just out of High School. Not an easy thing to do when your young, with little idea of what you want to do with yourself! I'd have to say that certain influences in my life have driven me out to the Northwest. I love everything to do with the outdoors and I have no reservation about what I've done. I'm in a good place here and plan on staying for quite some time!
I lived in the greater Chicago area for a while and never really felt a connection with the area......Which led me to move and spend the next three years in New Mexico (An experience all in it's own....) Everyday I think about living there and how much fun it was and the great friends I still have from there...Living there was my gateway to wanting to try living somewhere else, a place that has a more diverse climate.....
That's why I'm here! I've been here six years or so now and I'm loving every second of it. Bring on the rain, snow, mtns, rivers, lakes, weird trolls under the bridges...haha and everything else out here. I can only hope that people from this area appreciate the natural beauty they have been given????

My Interests

Cycling,hiking,backpacking,rock climbing,mountaineering,sailing, kayaking, running,travel, music, checking out some new and fun bars and dives, bad jokes, good food and new beer among other things!

From top to bottom, Climbers on the Muir snowfield,"Never a bad time to ride"(Capital Forest,Oly), Buffalo in Theodore Roosevelt Nat. Park,N.D. and sailing on the Sound!

I'd like to meet:

Anyone who is laid back and easy going. I find I have the most fun with people who don't take themselves or others to seriously. Anyone who is interested in the outdoors and doesn't mind being a bit goofy at times. Meeting the right girl would be an added bonus!

Music:

So you asked for it.....It's quite a list and it's copied from my media player.... Air,Alice in Chains,Alison Krauss,Amon Tobin,Ani,Amos Lee, The Arcade Fire,Arkestra One, Audio Slave,B.B. King,Bare Naked Ladies,Beasties,Beck,Bela Fleck,Ben Harper, Beth Orton,Big Head Todd,Bjork,Black Moon,Blackalicious,Bloc Party, Blues Traveler,Bob Marley,Brandi Carlisle, Breeders,Breedlove,Built To Spill,Byron Lee,Cake,Chemical Bros,Cibo Matto,Citizen Cope,Coheed and Cambria,Cold play,Counting Crows, Crystal Method,The Cult,Daft Punk,Damian Marley,DMB,David Gray, DelaSoul, Death Cab,Death In Vegas,Digable Planets,DJ Shadow,Mark Farina, Z-Trip, Eeels, Fishbone,Foofighters,Freddy JonesBand, Fugees,Galactic,Gorillaz,Greg Brown, Groove Armada,Habib Kuite, Herbalizer, Herbie, Hierogliphics, Hooverphonic,Hot Hot Heat, Incubus, Iron and Wine, Jack Johnson,Jeff Buckley,Jimmy Eat World,J-5, Jose Gonzalez,Karminsky Experience, K&D,Lamb,Leftfield,Live,L.O.A.,Lucinda W.,Lucious Jackson,Macy Gray,Mano Negra, Mano Chao,Marty Lloyd,Massive Attack,Metallica,Michael Franti, Miles D.,Minus The Bear,Modest Mouse,Morcheeba,Mystic,Neil Young,Nightmares On Wax, O.A.R., Operation Ivy,Orishas,Orbital,Ozomatli,Oakenfold,The Paperboys, Pete Yorn,Peter Bjorn and John, Phontaine, Pinback, Pixies,Police,Portishead,Postal Service,Pretty Girls Make Graves, Primus, Propellarheads, Queens of the Stonage,Radiohead,Rage,Ray LaMontagne, The Roots, Ryan Adams, Semisonic, Silversun Pickups, The Shins,Sonic Youth, Spearhead, St.Germain, The Starseeds, Stephen Marley, Sublime, Sugarcubes, Sting, Thievery Corporation,Tool,Tosca,The hip,Tom waits, Tribe,Travis, Tricky,U2,TV on the Radio, Underworld, Weezer,Verve,White Stripes,Widespread,Wilco,Youth Group,Zero 7...You get the idea...

Movies:

I could go on and on......from comedy to non-fiction.....but Two Mules for Sister Sarah (old Clint Eastwood flick), Time Bandits and various Mtn Biking and Skiing movies.

Television:

I'm not much of a T.V. watcher but I occasionally get sucked into crappy shows on cable including but not limited to......Man-VS-Wild, Survivor Man, Modern Marvels, Myth Busters and anthing on the Discovery Channel,Old Jackass episodes, Comedy Central, any News (I love watching the news-go figure)

The pics from top to bottom are St. Helens,Yellow Coral Mushroom w/frog on the side of the Kachess Ridge trail,Tatoosh Range near Rainier and wrenchin at a cross race.

Books:

I don't seem to find the time to read much but here's my latest..... In a sunburned county, the lost continent, touching the void, dark shadows falling, travels with charley, faith in a seed, uncommon ground, into thin air, and tons of dorky travel books, guidebooks and trail books........

Heroes:

Anyone who inspires me to be the person I am!

From top to bottom,My favorite trail opening,Shannon falls in Squamish,B.C.,some crazy old goat near Ingalls Peak,WA,a cool shot a buddy took of a slot river near Rainier and Smith river by St. Helens

My Blog

I’m on facebook....

....great...one more thing to waste time on! http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1041753315
Posted by Shawn on Tue, 11 Dec 2007 06:58:00 PST

Squamish Gear Jammer 7-15

Sunday is my first race of the season and is planning on being a hot one!  Lots of climbing to be had!  Wish me luck!
Posted by Shawn on Wed, 11 Jul 2007 08:42:00 PST

Group Health Commuter Challenge

The entire month of May is the Group Health Commuter Challenge and over 800 teams from Seattle have signed up to participate.  We have commited as a team to ride to work (and back unless there's ...
Posted by Shawn on Wed, 09 May 2007 09:24:00 PST

3-22 Squamish,B.C.

Here's a few pics of my recent three days back in Squamish,B.C. Let's see....Where's the house?????There it is!  The long awaited shot of me crushing the house from 2,000 ft! A shot of where the...
Posted by Shawn on Wed, 22 Mar 2006 12:32:00 PST