Farah and Oli – Day 2

Posted on July 20, 2008 by Smoke

We had a traditional “camp out” at Rancho Relaxo last night. Truly the lap of luxury…

It’s IS a nice room, very high ceilings.

As we stayed in the South Okanagan, we went out to Naramata today. Gary and Stash came along too. There’s Stash, killing it as usual.

The first lap on the Beer Run went as usual. We had a good time sessioning some fun jumps, but mostly just shredded the singletrack to the beach so we could get a swim in.

Where we met up with “Vance Armstrong”, local trailbuilding hero and all around good guy.

Vance took us to his latest creation, “Drops-A-Lot”.

Guess why he calls it that?

It’s basically a crazy flowy line with a ton of 4 – 6 foot drops and gaps.

Here’s the master at work. Note the XC bike, the clipless pedals, and the lack of padding. Yes, this is Canadian XC.

Stash takes a different approach. She IS on a new bike though.

Farah found a different line….

Some parts of this trail aren’t even singletrack. Noughtrack?

There, back to singletrack.

Near the end of the trail there’s a bit of a tech feature with a really steep roll into…

…a bit of a sender.

I think Oli had a good ride.

..and it looks like Farah did too.

So lets do a spot of wine tasting, shall we?

As has become the norm, we took our purchases down to the “tasting room.”

Excellent seating in the tasting room.

Plus, the locals have awesome uniforms. Not sure about that arm deformity though.

We retired to Salty’s for some nourishment and evening entertainment.

Does this rate as a good day?

Farah and Oli – Day 1

Posted on July 19, 2008 by Smoke

Gotta start the new kids off with–uhhhh, kid gloves. So it’s off to The Bog for a couple of shakedown laps.

Wait a sec….this is the easy stuff? There’s freekin’ DINOSAURS on the easy stuff?

Yeah, ain’t it the truth of the Moment.

The kids did good for the first day, but I think the scale sort of wigged ’em out a bit.

Yes, take a deep look into those cold steely eyes and what do you see?

…Bliss.

Which is a good stoke for anyone.

We’ve been charging pretty hard with the last couple of crews, so you might not realize just how much trail we’re hitting in a day. The Bog is almost 4000′ vert. per lap if you run them all the way to the lake. It’s something like 22km. Even if you’re just looping the upper section, it’s 7 or 8 km and a good 1500′ vert per lap.