TONS of stuff to upadate today.

First off, a new bike. Schweet RMX from Rocky Mountain. Built up with all my faves, and with a lot of help from Manitou, Hayes, SRAM, Syncros, RaceFace, Outdoor Gear Canada, and Cove Bike Shop.

Here she is in all her glory.

Some details for you to drool over.

So I think you can tell from the background that we got into some action for the legendary April 20th weekend in Williams Lake, also known as the 4:20 Fest.

Mark Savard of Red Shred’s Bike and Board puts on this legendary party on or around April 20th every year to kick off the season. I finally made it up to it this year after near on a decade of missing out. Here it is….

We got up to Mark’s place at 1 am. There was a lot of snow lying around. Not an auspicious start. After a brief nap, we went in to the Puddle to get some last minute supplies (booze) and headed out to our campsite at Farwell Canyon, about an hour away in the Chilcoltin.

Here’s a good shot of it.

Once everyone arrived, we started loading up the shuttle vehicles. It was killer because all the key players in mountain bike tourism were there. Besides myself, Chuck from Freeride Tours, Nelly from To The Top Freeriding, and Merle from Adrenalin Mountain were all there.

We had 25 riders and an uphill capacity for another 40 or so.

The riding in Farwell is fast and open. A true interpretation of Freeriding. Pick lines, and go fast and big. After a warmup on the Classic we went over to the Hourglass.

Here we are on our way over.

The Hourglass is a thousand foot sand chute sitting at around 45 degrees with a variable drop in from one to twenty feet. It’s sick fast and super controllable. You’ll have to wait until I edit the video to see what I really mean.

Here’s a shot of Margus on the lower part of the Hourglass.

It’s so much like skiing. Here’s another reason…

Too bad you can’t get the shuttle vehicle over to the bottom. Looks like someone else feels the same way.

After another run on the Classic, we hit another big line called GodSmack. It’s five huge fingers of clay that you ride down the edges of. Again, the best shots I got were video. You will just have to wait a bit for those.

Here’s a small panorama of one of the ridges. There’s actually riders in there somewhere.

This is Brian Eller of Cove Bikes railing the sand near the bottom of finger five.

Barb catching some rays at the end of finger three.

Some more tracks near the bottom of Godsmack.

Shreddie in his Jesus Christ Pose.

The days are long up north. We had sunset at around 7:30, but it was light enough to ride until around 8:30. Here’s Brian and Cory dropping the last chute on the Classic under starlight.

I’ll get you some more shots of the nightlife in the next update.