Mike & Kirstie — Part III

Posted on July 27, 2005 by Smoke

Holy stereotypes…..but the pictures don’t lie. There were 6 (six) cop cars at the Timmy Ho’s in 100 Mile House. Too funny. Anyway, I’m getting ahead of myself here. It’s the last day in the Puddle, so we went out to Desous to hit some bigger lines.

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And hit them we did. Kirstie sarted to really open it up today. This is part of a natural 6-pack on Double-O Soo.

I think Mike felt that he had to step it up too.

OK, I did too. It’s a pretty good line for flow. Actually, we did it twice.

…and we hung out at the top of the mountain for a while too.

Barb took them down So Long, which drops a few grand vert into the Fraser Canyon.

Going down?

The scenery just sucks on this one.

See what I mean?

Final pitch is a gully run with about 40 turns in it.

All good things must come to an end, however, so we said g’bye to all our pals in the Puddle and headed sout to Kamloops for…

Campfire ….

…and S’mores!

Chilcotin and Desous

Posted on April 20, 2005 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.