Mission Creek Skills Park Nearly Open

Went for a walkthrough of the new bike skills park in Kelowna recently.  It’s about the last thing to do before we get official sanctioning on this project.  Check out the easy line.

Now check out John Cowan sending it on the big line.   There’s everything in between here.

The thinking is that by providing a real set of jumps, we can avoid the high maintenance factor of people ripping apart the smaller lines in order to make bigger ones.  Hopefully these are big enough to keep the groms happy for a few weeks anyway.

JC also did an amazing demo on how to maintain the jumps.  I wish I‘d videoed it, as it was incredibly educational.  Maybe I’ll be able to trick him into doing one another time.

Ahhh…this must be a City gig.  Lots of oversight.

The snakes like the park too.

Alright, the park is open.  Here’s the rules.  Learn them, know them, live them.

Powers Creek Trail Day

Time to buff out those trails.  And with the first rain in weeks, it’s looking good to build out there.

Dan, you thought you’d gotten out of the club scene didn’t you (he used to be the President of the NSMBA)?

Nothing major got built today, but almost the entire trail of Builder’s Only got smoothed out and buffed.

Justin, Rich, and a few others also went out to 2.5 and cleared a ton of deadfall from the winter.

The rest of us moved huge rocks around and filled in all the holes.

The crew at Outbound kept us fed and watched the bikes so we could rip.

Can’t do this on the Shore either…

Wildlife sighting, one small purple dinosaur at the bottom of the mountain.  Those things are endangered, eh?