Another Thursday

It’s been a while.  I’ve been on the road so much, I haven’t had much of a chance to get to these rides.

Some wildlife on the side of the road:

I think I was better off getting the pic on this side of the road, instead of the rugged couple having sex in an Oldsmobile on the other side.  Ahhhh…it’s still summer.

We did a Peat Bog lap tonight, and it was amazing to me how many of the regular crew had never seen these trails.  They’re pretty old.  Even this semi-hidden line that Ryan Berrecloth built is going on 6 or 7 years now.

Crazy guy brought cedar up from the coast to build these booters.  Good call, they’re super solid.

…and Stocker sends it, after sunset as is tradition with that boy these days.

Mayo Clinic

We’re really getting our southern hemisphere on here at Bush Pilot.  Last week it was the Kiwi’s and now it’s Gaby Mayo and friends from Australia (hence the bad pun.  I wasn’t gong to call it “Hold the Mayo”).

As usual, we thought we’d start with an easy trail.

But of course things got out of hand in a hurry.  The next one is of course a Canadian, that being Dave Foot’s first run on the Night Stocker.  You can always tell the locals by the half lid helmets.

Since that went so well, we kept the pace up and also ran the line on Jack and Jill.  Gaby had no problem with it, although Pat and Jamie weren’t convinced.

No day in the Mice seems complete without a little session on the Redemption Compression.

As it seemed that the boys were a lot more at home on the jumps and less comfy on the technical, we did another run up on the Bog to get their huck on.  Which was the right call, as they on sighted pretty much all of it.  So no pics of the jumps.  Here’s Jamie on a random steep part instead.

Then we finished with some classic Canadian sand chutes.

Riding blisters…

Day one down, with beers in the lake.

…and one more for the ladies….

Kiwis – 1

Alright, some fresh meat for the machine.  A trio of Kiwis have shown up, having randomly found out about the Bush Pilot on the internet.  Lets see what they can do…

Pretty good action for guys that say they don’t have jumps at home.  I kind of expected it though.   Most Commonwealth riders are adaptable.

I found out later that the first jumps we hit on the first ride of the first day constituted the biggest airs they’d ever taken.  And this record was to be broken several times, much like this carbon bar of Nathan’s.

Yeah, I’m still not sold on the carbon handlebar.   This happens way too often.  Luckily I’ve got a stash of spare Chromag goodies on hand for just such an emergency, so we were quickly back in action.

And it was some good action.  That NightStocker line we cleaned out last week is a good one, and it will only get better this fall once I get it cleaned up a bit more.

A bit of a session on the last booter on Drops A Lot was also a game changer for the boys.

Not a bad start, with a solid 10k’+ of descending and some beers on the beach.

Tomorrow….Kobau….