Ruined – Day 3

Penticton and Arawan were on the agenda today. Willy and Shortround tagged along for the session yet again today.

One thing you can always count on up the Bog is some fairly radical skinny action.

We also did a little trail maintenance and cleaned out this oddball little rock line. It’s way harder than it looks.

So is this one.

Willy always has to steal a scene. It’s his way.

Jim getting his fill of skinny stuff.

A little cooling off session for lunch.

After lunch we went up to the Arawana stuff for a lap. A few skinnies, but mostly the “Dorp to Falt” kind of riding there.

Scott and Jim were feeling all kinds of love from the airs on this one.

Jim was even sending road gaps with some style. Broken finger? What broken finger?

Mongo dropping a skinny one shortly before the seperator.

…and he sent it. He also overshot it, smoked one of his nuts on his tire, and still walked away.


Photo: Wyld Willy (slighty engineered with Photoshop)

No worries. He only uses the right one anyway. Willy gave it a miss, but he nailed this funbox combo a few times to make up for it.

Poews! Where are you? Oh, didn’t see you there in that tall grass.

Soaker!

Hey there, blue eyes…

Not exactly a wildlife shot, I know. But check out the beach…

Brits, frenchies, and dogs.

Oh, and I caught this shot of the Ogopogo spouting.

Brad, either put on a shirt or give us all some shades. Yer as pasty as an Englishman.

Ruined – Day 2

OK, I had to change the name of this tour. In light of the fact that Poews said he was “Ruined” on the first day, and also that this particular word made several appearances for the rest of the trip, this is the “Ruined” tour now.

We got ruined at Silver Star today. Of course, we did 11 runs, so we kind of deserved to feel that way.

This was my first real day riding the Silver Star bike park since they updated it a few years ago. It’s pretty damn good.

Mongo tried riding a wall on his off side…

Predictably ruined. Twice.

We also ran into Aleisha (Shaums’ better half and holder of many Canadian records and titles in several sports. Yes, she’s as rad as she looks), and her latest. Hi, Aleisha!

Anyway, we survived the day. Intact as well, but the boys had to check to make sure.

Ruined – Day 1

What was supposed to be the Padwan Tour (the young Jedi council riders) has sort of fallen apart. We have a few riders coming out, but it’s not really the full slate we’ve come to expect from this crew.

Not to worry, Barb and I are working on some numbers…..

Actually, our pal Wyld Willy brought up some more riders to help the process out. So in no particular order, here is our day….

Shortround steppin down.

Sherri hittin a gap.

Shaums getting some love. Oh yeah, there’s random superstar talent in them thar hills.

Sherri getting a bit bent on a drop. Thanks to WW for the fisheye shots.

Norco Jesus..uhhh, Jim seeing the light. He’ll be showing us his stigmata marks later.

Hey, I know that dude.

Oh yeah, the airlines conveniently left all the bikes in the UK, so Poews had to ride Barb’s bike. Looks sorta cute on him….

Jim came out on an earlier flight, so he had his own rig.

Shortround nails a couloir.

Mongo scored this rad rental with a blown Dropoff fork on it. Wait until you see what he does with it…

Poews is all about balance. Here he is stalling on a teeter.

Doh! Jim breaks his finger.

Brad on the insanity of Dr No.

Cody following suit.

Ride that rental, boy.

More couloir madness.

Check that distance that WW sends on this booter near the bottom of Boss Hog.

That’s a rental with crap forks there.

WW on the same Boss Hog stepup.

Mongo doing a front wheel tap…

…but it wasn’t exactly planned.

Whatever, it’s only a rental.

Like all Okanagan ride days, it’s just not complete until we hit a beach.