Well, it’s not pouring rain today.  But it did last night, so the jumps are still pretty wet.  Everyone put in some more time trying to install drainage, but it’s just not happening.  I guess we’ll have to do something else, like set a new record for dollar amount on the roof of the van (well north of a hundred grand with this load…).

I think we should also maybe head up to Reco for some big mountain riding.  Or more accurately, the boys decided we should go up to Reco for some big mountain riding and I tried to just hang on to the tail of the dragon…

Can you guess what they’re thinking?

I wonder if they expected to see the girls on top of the peak waiting for them though.

Buehler is having first and second thoughts here, but it goes.  You know it’s going to just take one guy to make the move and it’s going to go down.

And Doerfling pops the Reco face cherry!

Quickly followed by Alex (I’m not sure if that’s Pro or Volokhov, but they rode similar lines so you can pretend it’s whichever one you like best).

Then Sorge and Aggy dropped in via the summit couloir, prompting a regular avalanche of debris and freeriders.

Buehler…

…and Vink…

…and Herb.

..and finally Andreu, who rode it faster than anyone.  Probably in large part due to his nearly bald rear tire.

The boys at the bottom, although we’re still near the top of the ride.  Somewhere near there is Sorge’s GoPro, which he lost when he dropped his helmet while dodging rocks falling from above.  It’s in the bowl somewhere, along with another dozen or so that have been lost around here over the past few winters.

Once again, I’m sort of surprised that they’re that into riding steep scree.  I guess what’s old is new again, sort of like neon colours and long top tubes.

Here’s the whole dirty crew for you.

Meanwhile, Gnargus was waiting patiently for the gang so he could make a few bucks today.

Sorry buds, they didn’t feel like working it for you.  Except James.  He put in some high exposure ridgeline time.

I’m pretty sure that things are going to work out alright for Riga later in the week, but in the meantime we still have another day or two of indeterminate weather to wait out before we know what day this is going to go down on.