Year: 2005

Day 3 — Puddle Jumpin’

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Ahhhhh, Sunday morning. Gotta get up early, it’s time for church. Repent ye sinners……

C’mon Mitch, you could at leats PRETEND for a bit, ya infidel. Besides, it’s the Church of Bike, so the real sermon starts about…..

..here.

Now, I’d like you to meet my new lawyer.

Hi Andrea!

After that run, we went up to check out the local club’s trail day on HillBilly. Local coffee guy Paul is working on a new rollercoaster.

Thanks to the dedication of the locals, and the help of two levels of government, the future of Williams Lake riding seems to be in good hands. Excellent work, guys.

It was getting seriously hot again (about 30 C) so we stopped in at Brian and Sarins place for some ice cream cake. That’s Chuckles getting a headache in the back there.

Another run? OK then….

Dwayne above and Chuckles below on a teeter.

Oh yeah, the Cherry Popper.

Some new additions to the end of the trail. A new bridge and boardwalk across Williams Creek. Thanks to the local muni on that one.

Did I mention that I got the lads a keg? Did I mention that it was Guinness? Hoisting one to our luminary host, Red Shred.

OK, another day down. Time for a sunset shot.

…ans we’ll end the day with a little campfire.

Chilcotin and Desous

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Day 2 of the adventure, and it dawned hot and clear. today we were driving west for while to hit up the legendary Chilcotin.

It’s not as far as Bella Coola, but some folks decided to take that direction, if you know what I mean.

It was around 34 C in the canyon today. Kind of excessive for Canada in April. Especially this far north. Ian and Steve from ChroMag Bikes try to catch a breeze before dropping into the Fingers.

Nope, too hot. Gottta make your own breeze. Outta control on the ring finger.

It was just too hot to hit a ton of lines in Farwell so we decided to go up to desous for some cooler air. Normally it would be buried under snow at this time of year. Not so in 2005.

We ran across this big fella on the way in.

Godspeed, gents.

Somewhere in that mess of rallying on back roads I managed to disconnect my headlights. Good thing I got back to the top of the mountain at sunset then.

It’s a looooooong way back down, and the light was failing. OK, time for a quick sunset pic and back to Mark’s place for beer, food and hot tub.

“Pilsner —– Drink ’till he’s pretty”

If It’s Late April, Then This Must Be Williams Lake

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Yes kids, it’s that time again. The legendary kick off to the season in Willliams Lake. I drove up BY MYSELF on the Friday to ride the Cariboo with my pals. Note to all you riders out there: when I invite you on a free trip, the only response is “Yes.” I simply don’t go on crap trips. Anyway, you missed out if you weren’t there.

For those that DID make it up, it was a kickass good time.

As you can tell by JJ’s smiling mug at the potluck dinner on Friday night.

Doesn’t seem so funny in the morning, does it JJ?

Saturday we shuttle the crap outta the local trails. We hit up multiple runs of DogBone, HillBilly, Mitch’s Brew, and the classic Snakes and Ladder/Cherry Popper/ Spokey Hollow run.

The air hounds were in full force today.

Local punk Corey hitting the Mitch’s roadgap.

1st time wall rider, clipped in, on the high line.

Another newbie on the wall.

…and another.

The legendary Mitch himself dropping the Lichen Licker.

Another local grom, I think it’s Travis, upstaging the builder on the same drop. This was at about the same time that Matt Hunter was eating shit on the big gap around the corner. There’s some BIG stuff to get into at the Puddle.

Of course, all the jumping makes for hungry groms. Good thing that Micky D is at the bottom.

More dumb hucks on the last lap of the day.

Mmmmmm, post ride kegs at the shop. Between me, Steve, Bejoin, and Glew, there were 5 kegs for us to get throught this weekend.