Retallack

Goose Crew – 1

Posted on by Smoke

Yes, it’s time for the final Retallack trip of the year.  Goose has brought a new gang out, along with the old tickle trunk and whole bunch of other random mayhem.

I have no pics of the first day, mainly because the weather was obscenely dirty and also because I forgot to charge the camera.

Here’s a pic from last year which tells part of the story.

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Pics of the rest of the story, which may or may not involve me wearing a Tuck Tape mankini and some teabagging, will surface uncomfortably at some unforseeable point in the future.

Scope Mission

Posted on by Smoke

This is it then.  The last day of summer/first day of fall.   It’s all over at 7 PM today.

Yeah right.  It’s time to put the throttle down and get things done more like.   Today we’re going to make a scoping mission off of Reco Peak down to Sandon to check out the ground for a potential future trail.

We’re going over there, eh Mike?

Scope mission from Reco Peak to Three Forks. #retallack

Yup, we’re really guiding now.  As there’s no trail, it’s a bit more challenging dropping in.

Scope mission from Reco Peak to Three Forks. #retallack

We had some fun roaming around the ridges in the alpine. This is called “assessing.”

Scope mission from Reco Peak to Three Forks. #retallack
Scope mission from Reco Peak to Three Forks. #retallack
Scope mission from Reco Peak to Three Forks. #retallack

I’ve been hearing about this zone here for a while, and Buehler shot some nice lines here recently.   I think there might be some possibilities here for a few more lines, what do you think?

Scope mission from Reco Peak to Three Forks. #retallack

Mike found a couple here…

Scope mission from Reco Peak to Three Forks. #retallack

There are a million old mining roads to access this zone, and plenty of old cabins and such.  Here’s one of the better known ones near the Mercury Mine.

Scope mission from Reco Peak to Three Forks. #retallack

Looks like there’s a bit of undergrowth to deal with in a few spots, but I’m thinking we’ll be fine putting a new trail in here.

Scope mission from Reco Peak to Three Forks. #retallack

So there you go (it’s the orange line in case you’re confused).  7700′ of descending, and with all our little explorations it worked out to about 24 km.  Not a bad way to spend a Monday.

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Retallack Legends – 3

Posted on by Smoke

I’m not even going to try to top yesterday.  Record setting multiple heli drops?  Yeah, we got it done.

I didn’t make it out to the Legends trip last year, but everything I’ve heard tells me that this we got more riding, with better weather, on better trails, with a much more relaxed and awesome atmosphere.  Schley and Tippie were awesome the whole time, and as always we had a great crew of riders to share the trails with.

Today we got up late, ate a bunch of great food, slayed trails all day, and finished it up with some more great eats with these guys:

#legends #retallack

I think that pretty much says it all