DH Days of Summer

Tylers cross-country bike is still out of commission so the DH bikes have been in heavy rotation. Although we have been loving/killing the bike park on a daily basis, the park is hurting. Summer is in full swing with no rain for weeks (more on this later) crank works bike festival courses are getting most of the trail crews attention these days so the park is rutted and dusty. One of our many chair lift conversations turned to “so when are we gonna get these DH bikes on some fresh single track”. Not even 2 runs later we met up with the boys from summit bike shop and a 45 minute push off the beaten path later we were having beers at the entrance to ride don’t slide. The trail was incredible there were about 12 of us just flying down the mountain with bodies flying everywhere, we figured everyone had a least 2 crashes on the ride down. Didn’t mater one bit as the trail was just loamy single track with the odd steep shoot. Picture Kents Kamikazi freshly cut but 30 minutes long! The only downfall to this ride would have to be the 10 km ride back to the village on a 40 lb dh bike, but oh so worth it.





Other than that the only productive thing going on around here is that I finally managed to get an ok video put together of some riding in the bike park. Just a few clips from a run we did the other day, hope you enjoy and we will try to get some better videos together before too long.

Whistler Edit 1.0 from Ben Crook-Hanna on Vimeo.

As for it being so dry and such… It finally rained, and Matt on his first major ride got caught half way up a mountain in a hail/thunder and lightning storm. According to him it was not an enjoyable experience.



Yesterdays rain made for a dark/damp day here in Whistler and I couldn’t let it go to waste. Poor Tylers xc bike is still sick so I meet up with Dave from summit bike shop and he took me to a trail called train wreck, as it runs through an old wreck site complete with abandoned box cars. It was so cool! all the box cars are covered with amazing graffiti. Although not super long it was extremely fun and beautiful. The forest was alive, with the recent rain the forest was just radiating with lush green moss, floating steam in the trees, and the wonderful smell of damp cedar!