The entire trip back and forth took anywhere from five to eight hours, and that's if there wasn't a freak mountain blizzard.
Persuaded to take a wave, McNamara, 44, found himself on a freak mountain of water 90ft (30m) high, surfing one of the biggest waves ever ridden, probably the largest in Europe and the biggest recorded on film.
Part of why I'm so happy here is that I'm something of a mountain freak; as often as I can, I slip away from work to head out into the Cascades to run or bike or climb.
The dish is, in fact, named after a bunch of monks, mountain freaks who never knew the fatty happiness of a steak frites and a glass of red.
To Phillips, P-45 is a sociopath, a freak—"the John Wayne Gacy of mountain lions".
Other brisk-sellers said "Jesus Freak" or mimicked the Mountain Dew advertising logo, tweaking the slogan to read, "Do the Jew," meaning to emulate Jesus.
Meanwhile, Lay Me Down, his piano paean to an ex-boyfriend, is touching, but a medley of Le Freak and Ain't No Mountain High Enough is pure Mursian folly.
British Columbia has lost 33 million acres of lodgepole pine forest, and a freak wind event in 2006 blew mountain pine beetles, a species of bark beetle, over the Continental Divide to northern Alberta.
The morning I visited, a freak storm began, rolling in from the mountains.
Cyclopark, Kent The Cyclopark is a wheel-freak's nirvana, with a skate park, mountain bike trails, and most importantly 330m of first-class BMX track.
At one point, I broke into an involuntary smile, only for my mouth to be splattered in mud – mountain biking is not for clean freaks.
