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Another Devinci Demo Day

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The first one was so good, we had to do another Devinci demo.

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Actually, this was a chance to get on the new Spartan.  It kind of feels how this photo looks…

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Will from the hill came out to see what the fuss was about, too.  Or more accurately, he got sucked into a gnarly ride in the heat.  Pretty good effort for the first ride of the year, I thought.

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Round two and we went for a Beer Run.  It’s fun enough that Mitch even hit some stunts.

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And Brad liked the new bike enough that he sent the road gap on it.

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Always a good time when Mitch comes to town.  I just might have to grab one of these rigs for myself soon.

Thursday Beer Run

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Last ride of spring.  Time to get our huck on.  This is about as pure gravity as you can get in the Penticton area.

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The trail is in pretty good shape.  A few of the older stunts are broken or have been removed, but the rest are either rebuilt or vastly repaired.  We went through fast enough that I didn’t take any pics until Ivy League.

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How’s that for a rock garden?

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Sometimes I feel like I’m in a tropical jungle on this trail.

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But then you’re right back in the desert.

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It being Thursday, we finished on the beach with some brews and a tubular meat feast, thanks to Ogopogo Meats.

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Alright, time to bring on summer!

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NBR

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Which translates to "New Beer Run" for the uninitiated.  Go to riding partner Dave suggested checking out the recent rebuild on the Beer Run, and seeing what the Grattons have been up to.

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Looks like a lot of chainsaw work.  This bridge on the Upper Beer Run (UNBR?) looks to be the latest, but there’s plenty of rebuilds throughout the trail. 

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Which we didn’t bother to take pics of, but that’s because it’s terribly good out there right now.  More than half of the trail has been fixed up, although rest assured there’s still plenty of that old malt flavour to remind you that it’s still the Beer Run.

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Fall Bonus!  The larch trees just dropped their needles.  LOTR might be more appropriate right now.

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Nice work boys.  Great to see so much love thrown at the trails lately. 

We also went for a drive on some the newer logging roads up above the Mice, which I’ve been wanting to do for a while.  We got up to 5300′ and summer tires weren’t working so well on the snow.  It’s not much further to the end, and from there you’re only 400′ from the high point.

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Lots of prime terrain up there, although it’s over mature forest and finding the route might be challenging.   A quick line check on Google Earth shows that there’s only a few km of trail to link together to make this happen.  That’s a full 5k’ vertical drop there.   Food for thought over the snowy months to come…