3 Blind Mice

Andy

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Our first client of the year has shown up.  

Andy usually rides a hardtail, but that seems a bit silly when there’s all these brand new bikes kicking around for rent.  So he grabbed a fresh 29’r and had a go.  I think he’s enjoying it…

Not bad for a guy that hasn’t ridden Canada before.

Just a bit of snow at the top.  We got a lot higher up than two weeks ago with Reg and Nick.  I found some reasonably deep spots, but we only had to push for maybe 10 minutes and managed a 2500’ descent out of the deal.

See?  Right around the corner and no snow.

No Bush Pilot ride is complete without a visit to one of the many quality wineries.  We dropped in on Laughing Stock to test out their latest Pinot Gris (it’s SPECTACULAR).  Andy’s response?

“I’ll have a pint!”

Salad Doggers – 4

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I think we gotta scale things back a little bit.  These non-stop epics are getting a bit outta hand.  Besides, the weather (typical of this year) has taken a turn for the worse.  So we’ll go to Naramata today.

The boys inform me that they get little opportunity to get air back home in the south of England, so I thought Drops-A-Lot would be the ideal place to figure it out.

Looks like I was right.  And being British, a spot of wet weather was no bother.

Steve, I think you can go a bit slower off that one.

He was trying to achieve low orbit.  Nice work, Sputnik.  Ewan was of the same mind with this attempt.  Giddyup!

That was it for the rest of the day.  No huge airs, but impressive moves from the boys all round.  By the end of the day we’d hit lots of drops up to 6’, and multiple gaps up to 10’.

..and in the wet, too.