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Day 3 — Puddle Jumpin’

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Ahhhhh, Sunday morning. Gotta get up early, it’s time for church. Repent ye sinners……

C’mon Mitch, you could at leats PRETEND for a bit, ya infidel. Besides, it’s the Church of Bike, so the real sermon starts about…..

..here.

Now, I’d like you to meet my new lawyer.

Hi Andrea!

After that run, we went up to check out the local club’s trail day on HillBilly. Local coffee guy Paul is working on a new rollercoaster.

Thanks to the dedication of the locals, and the help of two levels of government, the future of Williams Lake riding seems to be in good hands. Excellent work, guys.

It was getting seriously hot again (about 30 C) so we stopped in at Brian and Sarins place for some ice cream cake. That’s Chuckles getting a headache in the back there.

Another run? OK then….

Dwayne above and Chuckles below on a teeter.

Oh yeah, the Cherry Popper.

Some new additions to the end of the trail. A new bridge and boardwalk across Williams Creek. Thanks to the local muni on that one.

Did I mention that I got the lads a keg? Did I mention that it was Guinness? Hoisting one to our luminary host, Red Shred.

OK, another day down. Time for a sunset shot.

…ans we’ll end the day with a little campfire.

Chilcotin and Desous

Posted on by Smoke

Day 2 of the adventure, and it dawned hot and clear. today we were driving west for while to hit up the legendary Chilcotin.

It’s not as far as Bella Coola, but some folks decided to take that direction, if you know what I mean.

It was around 34 C in the canyon today. Kind of excessive for Canada in April. Especially this far north. Ian and Steve from ChroMag Bikes try to catch a breeze before dropping into the Fingers.

Nope, too hot. Gottta make your own breeze. Outta control on the ring finger.

It was just too hot to hit a ton of lines in Farwell so we decided to go up to desous for some cooler air. Normally it would be buried under snow at this time of year. Not so in 2005.

We ran across this big fella on the way in.

Godspeed, gents.

Somewhere in that mess of rallying on back roads I managed to disconnect my headlights. Good thing I got back to the top of the mountain at sunset then.

It’s a looooooong way back down, and the light was failing. OK, time for a quick sunset pic and back to Mark’s place for beer, food and hot tub.

“Pilsner —– Drink ’till he’s pretty”

More T-Dot Victims

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It doesn’t rain, it pours. Lately it’s been tech convention refugees from Ontario. 2 guys from Toronto and another from Ottawa today.

Now, these guys are the typical North Shore virgins, but they rode pretty much everything I threw at ’em today. Lots of fun, rollin around in the mud.

Kevin had a bit of a hard time with a few parts, but he still managed to pull a few stylish manuevers. The Shore is a long way from riding a touring bike in Ontario.

Jimmy had pretty much no problems at all. He rode better than a lot of locals I know. That BMX background always comes in handy.

John had a pretty good go of it too. He said this is his second time on a mountain bike.

Of course, the tank had to run dry sooner or later. Here we are, later….

Tired, dirty, a bit bruised, and all smiles.