Wildlife shot. Your standard youngish coyote there.
With a rare day off, I hooked up with another highlander and went to check out the new access road up McDougall. It sure makes it easy to get up that climb now.
Andrew hasn’t been up here yet. Three years here and he’s just fining out about the mad variety of singletrack we call the Okanagan.
These kids are still in school and they know all about it.
All good things must come to an end, and so here we are at the end of what has been a most memorable tour.
We went back out to Powers for a farewell lap of Builders Only to see what we could accomplish in the last few hours of the tour.
Looks like we accomplished a lot of airtime on some good sized moves.
Trip was on a bit of a mission as well.
I think he’s been thinking about Crazy Train since the first day. Look closely, you can see the determination.
Visualization, preparation…..execution. There you go. A 12 year old nailing Crazy Train.
On a rental bike no less. Good work, we can all learn from the young I think. And we won’t say anything more about the dislocated ribs and concussion that happened to one of the older riders a few minutes later. He doesn’t remember it anyway.
Everybody say, “Bye bye, baby!”
Hmmm. I think we should stay close to home today. Something seems to be telling me that I don’t want to go far for some reason.
Good thing we’ve got tihs kind of action in the back yard.
Bryon almost pulled an Oli here, but got away with only scrapes.
As usual, the kid cleaned up.
Tyler put on a bit of a clinic on how to deal with the wooden structures.
Seems to be working. I’m having a hard time keeping the boys in the frame.
Maybe I’m just pre-occupied. Will was much better focussed than me.
See? I keep chopping heads off. Something must have been distracting me….
It takes a while to do Builders the first time. There’s a lot of lines to figure out, like this nice berm drop combo.
Yup, the half a man continues to dominate the fully growed editions.
Round two and we went for the longer lap, even though temps were firmly in record territory again. It was even hotter than yesterday.
Still, we had a mellow lap with all the breaks to fix Bryon’s flats. At least he had the decency to flat in places where we could session some hits.
T kept the pace going the rest of the time.
Here he demonstrates how to keep the sun shining outta his…..
Oh, and also how to rail this wooden berm.
Will got that memo, I think.
Yeah, something was keeping me pre-occupied all day. It’s sort of like I was EXPECTING my phone to ring.
Foreshadowing, it’sa cheap trick but it’s sure effective. Kind of like a cliff hanger ending…..