Shock Monkey Okanagan – Day 5

Day 5?  really?!  Well, I guess we’d better hit up Gillard then.

We did the usual warmup stuff in Gillard, then it was time to try some steep techgnar.  Dr. No is needing some lovin’.

That got he juices flowin’.   After that we headed down to Boss Hog for a session on some slightly bigger stuff.  Props to Jay for getting the ball rolling, but…

…shot of the day goes to Gen for overshooting the opener on the Hog.

Simon gets an honourable mention for not landing on me.

Jay has got the berms figured out now.  They’re easy when it’s not raining.

Ah, good times.  We banged out a few runs here before we called it a day.  What’s more important is that the rain is holding off.

Junior, learning to ride at Gillard. 

I’m bored of driving.  I think I’ll rake this picture of myself with a very serious expression.  Seriously, don’t piss me off.

Oh wait, here they come. I’ll just run over and play with the macro setting.

…and a little sender down Dirty Sanchez and we’re spent.

Time for some appies at the Eldorado.

This is the creepy dude watching us from the deck above.  Does he have ANY clothes on?

Chevy, don’t look.  Here’ check out the fish instead.

Oh great, it’s his naked girlfriend instead. Gross.  I’m outta here…

Ruined – Day 1

What was supposed to be the Padwan Tour (the young Jedi council riders) has sort of fallen apart. We have a few riders coming out, but it’s not really the full slate we’ve come to expect from this crew.

Not to worry, Barb and I are working on some numbers…..

Actually, our pal Wyld Willy brought up some more riders to help the process out. So in no particular order, here is our day….

Shortround steppin down.

Sherri hittin a gap.

Shaums getting some love. Oh yeah, there’s random superstar talent in them thar hills.

Sherri getting a bit bent on a drop. Thanks to WW for the fisheye shots.

Norco Jesus..uhhh, Jim seeing the light. He’ll be showing us his stigmata marks later.

Hey, I know that dude.

Oh yeah, the airlines conveniently left all the bikes in the UK, so Poews had to ride Barb’s bike. Looks sorta cute on him….

Jim came out on an earlier flight, so he had his own rig.

Shortround nails a couloir.

Mongo scored this rad rental with a blown Dropoff fork on it. Wait until you see what he does with it…

Poews is all about balance. Here he is stalling on a teeter.

Doh! Jim breaks his finger.

Brad on the insanity of Dr No.

Cody following suit.

Ride that rental, boy.

More couloir madness.

Check that distance that WW sends on this booter near the bottom of Boss Hog.

That’s a rental with crap forks there.

WW on the same Boss Hog stepup.

Mongo doing a front wheel tap…

…but it wasn’t exactly planned.

Whatever, it’s only a rental.

Like all Okanagan ride days, it’s just not complete until we hit a beach.