Youth Ride #7

Whoa…. A little bit of sun and a teacher’s strike, and we’ve got a good turnout.  13 youths and 5 grownups…and a creek.

That actually seems like a good way to teach people to look ahead and leave room, doesn’t it?

Speaking of which, look out for that tree Mason!

Not everyone had a problem there.

A stellar evening again in the Okangan. We got lots of postcard shots tonight, especially lower down on Southern Dancer.

Can’t miss the jump sesh at the end though, so we backtracked a little and got a final run on the step-up.

Which meant that I was at the top for sunset, and home by 10:30.

Ride, eat, sleep, repeat…

Youth Ride #6

A month and a half of these shenanigans already…wow.   Great turnout tonight, too, with 10 guys out.  Oh, pardon me…9 guys and this shredder:

Although to be fair, Jaelinn, we don’t discriminate on the youth rides.  If you rip, you can hang.

For a short period every year, the light is just right at sunset to backlight the compression jump.  I caught this a few years ago, but the last couple of seasons the weather hasn’t cooperated for us.

Nailed it!

It doesn’t hurt that the crew was hitting this pretty hard.   I guess sessioning the same jumps for a month and a half has some consequences.

Go into the light!

Here’s a sweet bar hump.

And another, this time with some skinny jeans too.

And to make it all the better, this was waiting for us at the bottom.  Thanks, Dave.

Youth Ride #5 – Bonus Storm Pics!

Bonus CRAZY storm pics…

I’m pretty sure that would have been a tornado if it was flat here.  Yet another reason to love the mountains.

Alright, another youth ride.  This time with rain.  This guy is named Saul (Sol…get it?).  Oh the irony…

Mason doing a drift test on some of the rock.  We did an extra long line tonight trying to keep things low angle.  Unlike riding on the coast, the rock here gets really slick in the rain.

You kind of have to experience to see what I mean.

OK, it was another great lap.   We now finish off with a session on the Redemption Stepup, as is tradition.

Rollin’ on 24s in that last one.  June is the best riding month of the year in the Interior.  Time to drop a gear and pin it!