The OC — Pt 3

Up to Kelowna to ride with our buddy Ryan McKenna agian. Ryan does some pretty spectacular building up in the Gillieaerd area. If you’ve seen any recent New World Disorder films or DropIn TV, you are familiar with Ryans work.

Here’s Jimmy on a new line that I’m not supposed to post pictures of. But it’s such a nice shot I had to put it up.

Our hero, Ryan. This is on one of the older trails up there.

SoCal Ryan on the Boss Hog stepup.

Next time you hear about someone using HGH to cheat at cycling, remember this trail.

It’ll make you sick…..

Serious air. That’s a solid 25 vertical feet there.

This is more reasonable.

Jack lays it on the line on Boss Hog.

We hit Salty’s Beach House for dinner and for the excellent view.

I’m gonna guess 36D.

Anyone care to differ?

Darcy’s 48th — Day 4

Nope, that’s not a typo. Some things are too foul to put on this website and believe me, Day 3 will never be seen here. Besides, it poured rain all day.

This is Ryan. He builds a lot of hte stuf at Gilliard. Especially the big stuff. Thanks, man.

We ran into a couple of the other builders there too, but I spaced the camera. Anyway, it’s all looking pretty sweet this year. A couple of new lines and some great maintenance. Except of the road, which is beat.

Barracho and Birthday Boy railing the turns on Wobbly Pops.

Dave rides the high line on the berm.

Johnny is even higher.

Dropping in on Boss Hog.

Post ride beers in the boat. Nice hats, dorks.

The secret to a great day? It’s all in the meat….

Wade Simmons Freeride Experience
July 9th to July 27th.
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German Freeride — Day VI

A grey day today, but still pretty nice riding weather. The Okanagan gets kind of dusty otherwise. So, we’re at Outbound Cycle this morning and I ran into an old acquaintance from hanging around the race scene from time to time.

Karey Watanabe, Canadian born Japanese DH legend just strolled on up, so we made a plan to go hit the trails.

She’s the one wearing the skirt. Anyway, we did a warmup lap on Powers Creek to get the ball rolling, then headed on over to Gilliard tp try out some of the trails I haven’t hit yet.

They’re pretty good. Nice skirt, by the way.

Skinnyman had to give ‘er a go too. I missed David’s air, as he pretty much jumped over me. Freakin kids these days…..

At any rate, that Cat’s Ass, Fist First run is pretty sweet. Then we went to Boss Hog for a session.

The Kid hit’s the step-up, of course. What you won’t see for a while is Skinnyman accidentally nose manualing the same move…since it’s on video and I don’t feel like editing right now. Hey, I got it, and it’s pretty funny.

Wallride…and we’re out.