Another absolutely stellar day. You can sure tell that summer is over though. I forgot to mention how cold the mornings have been lately. Well below freezing, and the snow guns are running on Blackcomb already. I’d guess it was about -8C in the alpine the last few nights.

So we’ll go to Squamish where it’s warmer. Our first lap was some mellow XC-ish downhill in Alice Lakes.

A nice little change of pace from the wham-bam-bam of Whistler.

Oh……HELLO there………

Our man Ben likes the ladies, and for the most part I think I agree with him. If you’re going to ride in Squamish, you gotta check out the Eagle Run Coffee Shop. Trust me.

After lunch, it was up to 19th Hole.

We got into a new one called Cortez or something like that. It’s pretty cool, but it won’t last long. The construction is a little dodgy.

Hey, what’s brown and sticky?

A stick….get it?

Yeah, you don’t know from funny.

Lots of cool little moves made outta twigs is my point anyway. Nothing over a couple feet to worry about, and nice flow.

The best section had to have been Homebrew. Stefan was riding very good today, so I got him to follow me in there. It’s been a couple of years since I hit that one, but nothing has changed. We non-stopped the whole line and he was peaking. To hit that line at good speed with no idea of what’s coming up has got to be pretty intense. Of course, no pics ’cause we non-stopped it, so you’ll just have to take my word for it.

We finished out on Deliverance. Man something was SO dead out near the top. I made the mistake of breathing through my nose and spent the next part of the trail trying not to hurl.

Unlike Christian and Holger, who were enjoying hurling themselves off of everything.

One more day, and that’s it for the big tours this year……..