Powers Creek Build Session

Dirty Dave is on another mission. Tis time he’s extending Builder’s Only another mile to add to the already impressive trails up Powers Creek.

Today was the hard part. We had some thick bush to get through now.

Luckily, with a bunch of motivated guys and chainsaws, it’s pretty quick. We put in at least 400m of trail today.

Lunch, and some philsophical meanderings from the “Master of Slag.”

There’s also some other work going on up here, like these jumps called “Daryl, Daryl, and Daryl”. Typical, they’ve all got names and only one’s been built so far.

More XC Epics

Another e-acquaintance has come to town for a visit. Craig is a long time mod on MTBR.com, and a regular on NSMB. He and his wife Ina ride all over the world, so I’m feeling somewhat honoured that they are gracing us with their presence.

Mr Moose didn’t really share the sentiment. I guess we should keep our heads down today.

Barb hasn’t seem McDougall yet, and Craig was interested in seeing some local XC stuff, so up we went again. Barb really likes climbing….

We had a little snow on the trail today.

One thing about this ride is that it’s tough to get a picture that shows how cool this particular piece of singletrack really is. This shot for instance, no justice at all…

And now it’s time for fun with HDR (that’s High Dynamic Range) photoimagery.

Good times. And now back to the trail.

It was a little chilly up there today. Here’s Barb enjoying the loss of bloodflow to her fingers.

Another couple of enhanced shots with a cool tree for some added flava.

Finally, the last climb.

As usual, there’s a huge part of the descent missing. Here’s one of the many lookouts on the way down. We’re just having too much fun railing corners to take pics.

Doh!!! Barb rails one a little too hard and buys the farm. Someone won’t be waxing her legs for a while….

PS. – Happy 69th Birthday, Dad