4:20 2004

Posted on April 20, 2004December 16, 2008 by Smoke

The annual start of the mountain bike season in Williams Lake. Every April 20th. Featuring some rare footage of the Hourglass, a thousand foot sand slope which collapsed in the summer of 2005. Oh, and some jet boating.

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Easter weekend

Posted on April 16, 2004 by Smoke

Before we get to Sunday, have a look at this. It’s an action shot of that elk from Saturday’s ride.

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On Sunday we got into some more freeride action. Here’s Callum deciding that he really likes the G-Spot suspension.

A scenic view of Barb and the old fire in the canyon.

Finally, a panorama of the canyon. If you look closely on the left you can see Barb and Christian under the clilffs.

Easter Weekend, 1st Trip of 2004

Posted on April 14, 2004 by Smoke

Presenting Callum from the UK and Christian from Ecuador. Also our first Ecuadorian. Very cosmopolitan, this Bush Pilot experience.

I have to give a huge shout out to ChroMag Bikes for their awesome frames. Ian has no idea that I’ve been shredding it up on their bike lately, but I gotta say that it’s a good’un. I’ll be posting some gushing, unsolicited testimonials on the forums soon. If you believe in the power of steel, give the ChroMag a look.

Here’s a shot of one.

That’s the top of the tripod trail in the sunny Okanagan. Easter in Canada. 28 degrees Celsius, or about 80 in the old scale. Who knew?

Here’s another ChroMag style shot.

Apparently the local elk population likes to expire on bike trails.

Anyway, here’s another shot of the top of the Tripod trail. You can see the Cathedral and Pasayten ranges on the horizon.

Here you can see how pristine the riding is. This was more of an intro day, as Callum and Christian are both rookies as far as Canadian mountain biking is concerned.