Good Bye Queens, Hello Chilcotins!

Been lazy the last few days so much to tell. The four queens finished up Sunday with probably the hardest ride of my life! We climbed in single track for hours only to ride down the steepest trail I have ever seen. It was craziness. Here is a brief exert from the blog mentioned below.

"Gravitron is a near mystical beast of a trail. Renown throughout the Sea-To-Sky Corridor as one of the most awesomely obnoxious creations of a diseased mind. Starting somewhere near the Sun it plummets like a broken elevator straight to the basement of hell. Imagine a f-ing steep ski line in the trees, but instead of soft fluffy powder snow, imagine dust, rock, roots, and a one way ticket to a soiled pair of underpants." - Seb Kemp

Overall, Tyler and I were very happy with how we did. We finished 31 and 15 respectively in the GC. We hadn’t rode most of the trails before so it was all new to us as we raced which adds and extra element of difficulty. Here is a link another racers blog for anyone interested in reading more about the stages, he has a great description of each days rides. Another link with some 4 queens pics and info.

That’s all old news now…. The current news is that I had an amazing adventure yesterday! I got a call from Penny asking if I wanted to join a group for a day trip into the Chilcotins. For those who don’t know of the chilcotins, it is a mountain range about 2 hours north of whistler in the middle of nowhere with the nicest alpine singletrack ever! Anywho, after a much to early 5:30 am wake up call we were on our way. Upon arriving we were told that our originally planned route still had snow covering all the mountain passes. Our only option was to take a float plane and get dropped off on the south facing side of the mountains. Riding in the float plane was really cool… landing was also scary as, but oh so smooth. All in all, it was an amazing day with great friends, unreal riding, float planes, and an icy cold lake swim and beer after the ride. I’ll let the pictures due the rest of the talking.











Ps – Matt is on the road to recovery and has rented an electric guitar, he has been sarinading us with sweet riffs since the minute he got it. Here is a shot of his new zipper!