It’s my birthday…still…again…

I went over to the Monashees early this morning to check out a new trail that my old friend Matt “Pinto” Devlin has put together.  Matt is one of the owners at Kingfisher Heliskiing, so it’s actually surprising that it’s taken this long for him to throw his hat into the backcountry biking ring.

This is a bit of a raw trail to say the least.  We (being myself, French Jonny, Ja Smith, and Matt) are the first people to put the rubber to the, uhhh… trail here.  After a pretty stiff climb, this is the reward on the summit of Mt. Yeoward.

Matt does the guide thing here (I got busted doing the same thing later).

Jonny and the Pinnacles.

Here’s a few shots of the edge of the back bowls of Yeoward with Matt and Jonny.

After several kilometers of rolling terrain and some stiff little climbs, we got to this awesome alpine meadow.  No trail here yet, you just follow flagging tape.  This must be epic when the flowers are out.

Beer break!   Gotta get ready for the descent to the lake.

It’s a nice ride.   Great XC on a mix of old horse trail and newly cut singletrack.  Plus it finishes at a damn nice lake.  It’s early days in this zone, but there’s sure a lot of potential.  I’ll be keeping an eye on it for sure.

And to top it all off, check out the epic sunset/moonrise I drove home under.