Year: 2009

Ride Guide – Day 1

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Or, if you prefer..”That’s What She Said – Day 1”, because that phrase was far too in evidence this week. Yup, it’s Rockstar week, with all sorts of TV themed shenanigans on deck.

That would be Ben Boyko getting the interview on the back of the rental truck.  Too bad we couldn’t have gotten this cherry Audi R8 for our shuttle vehicle.

Today we were opening up the new creation from Andrew McIntosh, Inferno.

It’s a nu-skool contraption with lots of street inspired ramps and gaps, not too big and tightly packed for max fun.

We also shredded Addiction with the builders of that trail, Leroy and Trevor.

The boys were pretty stoked, and I’m pretty sure I caught Boyko grinning right after guinea pigging this line here.

Leroy was killing everything. That boy sure has some style.

This is the very first run into this techy wallride feature.  All of these moves just flow from one to the next.  Quite a rad set…

Andrew, on the jump right after that wall.  He’s trying to alley oop, right to left.  Yeah, figure that out (and no, he didn’t land it clean but he was close).

Jaw dropping skills.

Reach for it.

Boyko, on the final move.

When we moved on down to Addiction, the boys really ramped it up.  I think the locals might have been a bit stoked for the camera.  This is Leroy airing about 50’ into the Addiction wall ride.  He broke some boards on landing.

Ben looked like he wasn’t going to bother with this wall, but then some old guy hanging around had a couple of runs on it which made it basically mandatory that he would have to do it.

C’mon buddy…it’s good fun.

Andrew and I had a quick run on Technical Difficulty to end the day….

…while Ben did the Rockstar thing with the camera.

The Return of the Son of It’s Yet Another Stag Ride – Aftermath

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Wow, don’t you wish you stayed up all night drinking with the crazy chicks in the next cabin?  I think Blair doesn’t.

I got a strange request to shuttle up today, but with all the XC bikes, I thought we’d better just shuttle half way.  You know, for the sake of good form.

Our old buddy Vance came out today to show us some of the lesser known routes in the area.  This is “High Pony”.

It sucks.

Oh wait, that’s not right.  It RULES!

The return of more typical Okanagan weather helped though.

Careful, that’s a bit of a drop eh?

OK, everyone gets their pic on this corner, don’t screw it up.

Good thing we had Vance with us.  Here’s a shot of a typical trail junction out here.  There’s actually a turn there, as we rode out past those random rocks to another trail.

See?

Dude….that’s not the line.

More sick fall riding.

Hang on, let me get my shades.  I think I see something over here.

Ha!  Good times…  Look while you can, you’re about to be married.  Anyway, thanks to Peter for calling up for this one, and to Lee for the recommendation.

The Return of the Son of It’s Yet Another Stag Ride

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Oh man, this is getting to be hard on my liver (and yes…I did just say “Hard On”).

OK, so another guy is getting married.  I guess it’s a sign of the times, and it’s overall a good thing.  We’ll just see how he feels after we shove him down this steep mountainside.

Ha!  He made it.  Actually, we already rode a fairly major XC trail up near Apex, but I left my camera in the van.  Oops.  Anyway, it was rad, and it snowed a little.

You’ll have to content yourself with these shots from our dessert lap near Naramata.

We had a good time, and the boys were stoked that we got to ride right back to their accommodations.

Which also included a stagette next door.  Anyone got a light?

Not sure what sort of game this is.  Either drunken stagette pin the wiener on the groom, or maybe a re-enactment of “So I Married An Axe Murderer”.

Yeah, dude looks sorta creepy in that outfit.  Wish I could have stuck around for the shenanigans, but I had to retrieve the van and prepare for tomorrow.  At least I got this vague pic of an elk on the retrieval.