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Second Bananas – Day 1

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Or, the Return of Team Banana Bread. “Now with more pregnant chicks!” Seems to be a theme lately.  It’s because I’m SOOOO virile, everyone that I know is getting knocked up.

Dan’s so freaked out by it, he’s jumping off a lot of bridges.

This guy broke his bike at Silverstar, and how is he rewarded?  Noel lets him use his Delerium.  Even though it’s a bit too small, I don’t see any real issues with the ride here.

Ahhh….there’s the pregnant one now.  Wheels on the ground though.  I’ll have to see if we can set up a tame jump for her.  Gotta get the next generation schooled on the airtime early, ya know.

Dan sending Crazy Train.

Oh, another rare pic of me, sending it on the XC bike.

A moonrise shot from Peachland, and check out that mysterious blob in the water.  Ogopogo?  Or just some random floatie?  You be the judge…

Dynomite – Day 2

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OK, enough dilly dallying around (thanks to my Mom for the turn of phrase there).  Lets get this party started.  As if the first day wasn’t rad enough, now we’re on the home trails at Powers Creek.

I promised the boys that if they couldn’t get their fill of vertical today, then it just can’t be done.

As it was, we only got 4 runs in before we were totally cooked.

Good runs though.  Hard to go wrong when you get over 8 grand at Powers.  We scored a full house on Crazy Train by the end of it all too.

That was all three bro’s hitting it up there.  We also did Justin’s new line below there, and it was my first time on that particular one.  With the bit of rain through the day, we all had some interesting …. situations.  I saw Jim bum sliding one tranny, and Joe totally missed another one off to the side.

It wasn’t until we got out to 2.5 that things got really rad.  The rain picked up a bit more then.

As Joe was just killin’ it, he got sort of confident as we went.

Really confident…..until he:

What doesn’t kill you, gives you a muddy face and makes you want to drink beer.

More tomorrow….

UFB Challenge

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Yeah…..think you’re tough? Let’s get ready to RUMMMMMMBBLLLLLE!

The annual May long weekend dirtbag invasion is upon us. This year with more babies.  And also a cute fuzzy spider.

I thought I’d start things off with a bit of an XC adventure, just to be different.  Unlike the coast, the XC here is actually pleasant.  Especially with the Balsamroot in full flower.

Dorothy, climbing sans helmet.  You’re going to be in SO much trouble.

“You know, madness is a lot like gravity… sometimes all you need is a little push.”

**Bonus points if you know where the above quote comes from.

The payoff for the little climb comes pretty quick.  Unless you don’t like carving a banked slalom down a a gully with little jumps everywhere. 

Dan lays into the natural berms on Smith Creek.

He was nice enough to set a good line for the girls.

Seth, lord of the underworld, kills some time while we wait for the back of the pack.

With something like 25 people in attendance, it was a shuttlefest free-for-all this afternoon up Powers.

Multiple laps went down.  Here’s Colin shreddin’ Crazy Train for the 15th time today.

Welcome to ground zero.

OK, random pics of Powers Creek.  Thanks to Seth for the rad pics.  I want a Nikon….