I stand corrected, spring snowboarding does not suck! Its all about timing! You go out too early ( like I did last time ), everything is rock hard ice, you go too late ( towards the end of my ride today ) the snow gets heavy, wet and is trying to swallow you up. I think I managed to hit the sweet spot today and it was an epic morning!

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When I woke up after my nightshift my wife asked me:

“Do you like the 3 Blind Mice Trail Network 😏?”.

Suspiciously I inquired why she would be asking!?

“I was thinking of taking the kids to the Penticton Beach and perhaps there might be a shelf I’m picking up that I would need your help with”

Aha.

So I texted my friend @aa_ron_whalen to ask for directions to get to the massive slap he has shown us on a group ride last year. So with treasure map in hand I went out for the hunt. Sadly after walking up and down the marked spot for 30min and not being able to find it I was about to give up and head back down when a couple locals pulled up. I asked them if they know of such a slab and they told me they just rode it and it’s a few hundred meters up the trail. I followed their instructions and spend another 30min looking but then ran out of time and had to go pickup the fam from the beach. Later on after reviewing it with Aaron we realized that I missed it by just a few more hundred meters . Oh well, next time.

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Gillard evening laps with my social distancing buddy @eddieamstaffy . It’s funny how you get all hyped up on MTB videos all winter long and the further away from your last ride the bigger the jumps you did in your head become. Then you form all these super unrealistic goals for your next riding season until you stand on top of a jump and calculate all the rehab work/time a crash would take. Fuck, getting old sucks. Fun was still being had, even at a seniors pace, although no air miles were collected. I need to learn how to fly.

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After Expresso I went right over to the original: Digger!! Short, steep, technical AF and sometimes you just looked at your next move and thought to yourself how the fuck is that even a trail!! Video makes this trail honestly no justice. It’s basically that super technical bit on Dr.No the entire time.

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Drove up to visit my buddy @darcywardo and we went to check out Sun Peaks Bike Park. First time riding this park for the both of us. Unfortunately the park didn’t inform anyone that a lot of the trails were still closed due to very wet conditions and even the trails that were open had some serious mud problems. I think they might have opened the bike park a bit prematurely. At one point my front tire literally got sucked into a mud hole and it threw me over the handlebars. I landed on my hands which sunk wrist deep into the mud and I managed to stop my face from getting a mud mask just as the visor on my helmet sunk into the mud 😅.

I really suck at flow trail jumps, gap jumps or anything that has that zero gravity moment ( I long so badly to be good at them though ), after trying a few tech trails and them being literally just suspension destroyers, we stuck to the flow trails. As a result by the 5th run I was starting to really get my confidence up and clearing some of those tables. I hope I’ll get to look back at this video in a year or two and be super proud as to how far I have come. Still had a good time and got to do what I love. Gonna have to head out to SilverStar real soon and work on getting rid of my dead sailor move once and for all.

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After our failed attempt at Jumbo Pass due to a mud/snow slide, we still wanted to squeeze out the most out of our day. Big shoutout to my wonderful wife @laura.j66 who not only just got deeply disappointed by her hike not working out but then promptly shuttled me up to a nearby FSR which in addition to she had to reverse out of for almost a km 👏.

Sadly the FSR was locked with a yellow gate and I had to pedal all the way up the horrendous 6km with grades of 30% most of the way. Not sure I would do it again. The trail was an awesome old school rock and root gnar. Super technical & high consequences if you mess up. It was worth the climb to tick this one off my list but I think Newtsac has definitely more value for your buck, not to mention shuttleable.

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Yesterday we landed in Christina Lake for the second leg of our little getaway and after setting up and taking the girls to the beach they surprised me with some Sunset Father’s Day Shuttles. The Stewart Creek Trails was gonna be my first stop, because I really wanted to hit “There’s Willis”. We had perfect weather all day with not a dark cloud in sight and then during the 15min drive to the trailhead, an angry rain cloud materialized out of nowhere from behind the mountain. It rained for literally 15min and solely over the specific trails I wanted to ride and then it was gone. I had my fingers crossed that the features somehow would be spared but unfortunately this trail went from mind blowing skinnies, teeter totters, wooden berms and jumps to a death trap. That wasn’t going to hold me back from trying all of them. At first it went well but then the trail gods had enough and shit on my parade with a nice body slam on the last massive roller coaster feature. Today I’m a bit bruised up on my left hip and chest but nothing that’ll stop me from having fun. Hopefully the features will dry out in time for my comeback.

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I forgot about this gold nugget, my buddy @awger texted me not to forget to check this one off while I’m there. Imonator. This was also Pinkbike’s “GoPro of the World” Winning Run 2019 by @ddangerousddave . Unfortunately I got a call from my wife on my second attempt and had to race home to drive her to the urgent care because she broke her little toe 🙈.

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I was deciding between heading back down to Penticton to find that slab on 3 Blind Mice or doing the Little White slabs. But the prospect of having to ride in 37°C degrees wasn’t very appealing. That’s when wifey chimed in and suggested I should ride Revelstoke because it’s only 30°C degrees there. I was all ears when she proposed that she had some mushroom leads and wanted to follow up on them. Well how could I say no to that, so in the name of mushrooms we packed up and drove down to Revelstoke 😁. For “mushroom picking” of course.

UFC & Ultimate Frisbee are the perfect combo to start or finish any Boulder Mountain excursion! UFC is a fast and flowy trail with a couple of punchy kickers, perfect warm up or cool down. I took Eddie with me in this first leg of the trip just to run him out and make sure he’s tired, after this he got to continue with the girls mushroom picking.

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This trail was a sweet accident. Once I finished Andreas’ I still wanted to hit something before rejoining the fam in town so I thought Moby Dick would fit the bill perfectly. Too bad I didn’t have more time because it was a super fun trail I would have loved to try again after getting a feel for it. Next time.

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Another errand for @laura.j66 translates to another bike ride. Had to go to Salmo to exchange one of her trees that didn’t make it. Decided to head over to Rossland after and explore something new. Chose the Malde Creek area and The Flume was the first trail on the list. It was a super fun ride with some old school stunts through and old growth forest, the climb back out was a bitch though.

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Went out to Gillard to continue on a skinny that I started I few weeks back. I was clearing trails when I saw this fallen tree perfectly situated along side a trail bend which would have made an awesome 200m alternative and would join back into the trail. Was gonna make a skinny, to a seesaw to a skinny feature. Sadly someone wasn’t too happy with the idea because when I got there my work was all cut up. I had my bike with me too so instead I went to see if my balls have had any growth and sure enough I managed to check off two new big ( to me ) features ( the slow-mo parts of the video ). Only problem with checking off scary features is that it moves features that were on the “impossible” ; “not in my lifetime” or “you’re too old for this shit” list to the “possible” ; “you got this” list 🙈.

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It’s that time of year again where I slip into my Easter Bunny costume and organize another Hard Mode Easter Egg Hunt. The first clue was revealed during breakfast and the rest you can follow along in the video. We started out with blue skies, then overcast, which turned into hail and snow just to revert into sun as we were coming back out. It was a 4k hike with 430m of elevation gain. With all the stops and looking for treasures it took us 5 hours ( oops ), everyone was exhausted and hungry.

Happy Easter everyone.

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We didn’t even let the girls recover from their Easter Egg Scavenger Hunt and had them already climbing another mountain. They love sleeping on top of mountains and we promised them to do a lot more of that. @laura.j66 wanted to book a night in these cabins the minute she discovered them when we moved here but they were solid booked for the entire winter. Then a couple weeks back she happened to just check again and saw a single night cancelation and jumped on it. She prepped everything for us and I made sure that everyone and everything made it safely up to the Cabin. We were expecting a winter storm for the entire time we were on the mountain but it didn’t roll in until the middle of the night. So after setting up the cabin, getting a fire going and having setup the sleeping area I went for a quick sunset rip and came to join the kids for some sledding. Games and chatting late into the night and then off to bed. It was a bit of a rough night, the wood burning stove only had two settings: Hell Inferno or Elsa’s Castle. Everyone slept maybe 2 hours tops but we managed to hike off the mountain all crumbled up on 20 - 40cm of fresh pow! My heart was bleeding a bit.

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Boys invited me for some #socialdistancing shuttle laps. Everyone drove up with their own vehicle and we kept 6 feet apart during shuttling, 2 guys in the cabin as far apart as possible and two guys in the tailgate and obviously we held our breath the entire way up. $2 HotDog was running smoothly from top to bottom. The name of the game was keep your ass behind your bike and hold on the entire way down 😁.

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I brought my bike along for the horseback riding so right after we were done, the girls shuttled me up for round two at Stewart Creek. I wanted to see what “Boris” & “Wheelchair” was all about. You can see Boris in the video and sadly it hasn’t seeing a lot of traffic, very overgrown in areas and a couple of trees down along the way. After I was done I opted to just go back and get my revenge on “There’s Willies” & “Spooner” instead of “Wheelchair”. But the girls were hot and starving so we changed plans and I was gonna go for a sunset ride later on. Unfortunately a thunderstorm materialized out of thin air later on and I wasn’t gonna make the same mistake twice. So that was it for Christina Lake riding.

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After a small adventure mishap and having ventured too high up a mountain only to still find at least one to three feet of snow at 1700m elevation we decided to come up with a plan b. We meaning Me & my boy Eddie. Plan B was Kalamalka Lake and we decided on Fraidy Cat & 36DD. I believe fraidy cat must be one of the steepest trails in the Okanagan if not the steepest one. So much fun. Also finally found the rock roll on 36DD, the approach was awkward but I finally ticked it off.

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Found this cool little feature on The Flume, it took three tries but I got it.

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Third time is a charm. First time I rode Oblivion, it was pouring rain and my camera froze up, second time it destroyed my derailleur and ripped through my back wheel costing me $600.- in total repairs. Today it was perfect 🙏.

Good company with my buddy @awger , mans best friend running alongside and the cherry on top was hitting that golden hour just as we start descending. Just as the name indicates already, Oblivion is in the middle of nowhere, a trail that should not be and yet there it is, a perfect balance between speed, tech & gnar. It’s a pain in the ass to shuttle to but a must ride at least once a year 👌.

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Last but not least was Baden Powell, not so much a trail but more the main artery to get you back to the climb. All the upper trails would spit you out here and you can either climb back up or then continue to the lower parts of some trails. This was a multi use trail so you had to take it easy and look out for hikers and dog walkers but honesty one of the most beautifully architected trails on the mountain in my opinion. The stone and wood work infused with its natural environment is just mind blowing. It’s as if nature made it that way. I lost count after the 4 lap but I think I managed to climb the mountain 6 to 7 times in under 24hrs. It was amazing to ride the rainforest and I can’t wait to come back!! Also misaligned the 360 action cam and now you can see how dorky I look to make this cinematic magic happen. But it’s totally worth it, love the unicorn perspective.

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After paying tribute to the classic it was time to explore the new stuff. My girls shuttled me to the very top and got to see me for the very first time in action. This clip is a mix of High Roller & Turducken.

They weren’t kidding when they said that this is one of the nicest jump lines in BC outside of commercial bike parks. Was still casing the massive jumps but did clear some of the smaller stuff which I was happy about.

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We finally got our first 10cm of snow and the kids have been waiting patiently for me since 7am to come back from work so I can take them sledding. There was so little snow you could feel the gravel below but we didn’t care and had a blast! We didn’t get out until after dark so we mounted all my bike lights to the sleds and heads.

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Now that “UFC” got you all loosened up, “Ultimate Frisbee” is literally just throwing you down the side of Frisbee Mountain. At times it was more controlled falling then riding 😁. Once the mountain spits you out at the bottom, you are now ready for what Boulder Mountain has in store for you. I took Eddie with me for this short section wanting to tire him out so he could then putter around with the girls while they picked mushroom but even these 4km were too much for him and he wasn’t looking too good. I made him go swim in a creek at the bottom that was freezing cold and that helped a lot but we made him take it easy for the rest of the day and kept him in the A/C truck as much as possible. By the time we arrived home he was good again but no more bike rides until the temps go down.

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After wrestling all day with bouncy castles, Eddie & I drove up to Smith Creek for a quick loop of all my favourites. I believe it’s been 2 years since I’ve last been up at Smith Creek. So much has changed, lots of wooden features disappeared but were replaced with dirt and some other features got a refresh. Also houses are being build all along the dirt road soon to be suburb road.

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No new injuries surfaced from yesterday’s crash, hip and pec are still a bit bruised but I was good to go for some more Christina Lake goodness. My girls were kind enough to give me another shuttle up to the Dave Swetland Memorial Trail. This is what Trailforks says about the trail: “This trail was built as a tribute to Dave "Sweaty" Swetland a pioneer of freeride mountain biking who grew up on his family's land nearby.

Sweaty inspired the first generation of Christina Lake locals to pursue the more fringe aspects of mountain biking. These riders were then instrumental in the development of Wheelchair Access and Boris. You can see Sweaty's antics in the first three Kranked films and also the recently released "Moment" documentary.

It was a beautiful mellow black line with amazing views and some cool skinnies. Sadly, the 360 berm was a bit damaged ¾ of the way down.

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Last goodie from our stay at Nelson. After I did Morning Sickness I wanted to explore something new and Doz Slabs fit the bill. There was no way of really accessing it unless you are coming down from Hitman so I kinda had to hike a bike it from the Redfish Campground.

Doz Slabs looked like a really cool fun trail in its prime, sadly most of the wooden features were taken down but there were still lots of rock slabs around and one skinny. The last rock slab took some time to commit to but I did it. Not only did you have to lean over the drop so you avoid the tree, you also had to bunny hop over a small crack in the slab before sliding the main slab down. Didn’t soil my pants either.

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Pinch me, I must be dreaming. No more are these trails just videos I drool over from my desert like hometown. No flow here as far as the eye can reach. Just lots of yank, skinnies and mind blowing trails and features. So much love and work put into these trails, like there was actual literal masonry work installed. .

@laura.j66 surprised me with a 3 day getaway to the Northshore, our Airbnb is at the foot of Mount Fromme . Started with the first classic called “Oilcan”, these trails date back to the mid 90s .

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“Boondocker”. Best Trail in Revelstoke!? I think so! It’s got it all, steep, gnar, flow, jumps, gaps. One lap just wasn’t enough to get comfortable with the bigger features. I did manage to check off a bigger jump and the awesome rock roller but somehow still felt a bit disappointed not having done the bigger jump out of the three new options and the shark fin jump. Gotta come here with the boys so they can light some fire under my ass.

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Had @coty_hardy cruise through town with his sidekick Hero so I took them on a little hike down to the Christie Falls. The falls have already substantially shrunk since our last visit but today's point of attraction was an abandoned hut not too far away from the falls. I'm not sure if we didn't go far enough or if someone has charred down the entire cottage but what you see in the video is all that we found and we didn't really see another trail leading anywhere. Judging by the heavy wood burning stove in the middle of a large charred rectangle, it might be that someone burned the place down.

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For round ✌we rode Baconator and the 1/4 was still very wet with some running water down the trails and pooling. Boys dug some drainage trenches to help those areas dry out quicker. But the rest was in prime condition and hella fun. Nobel Canyon never disappoints.

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Finally managed to take the kids to the not so secret Fintry Swimming Hole. Three water holes situated on three separate levels joint by waterfalls. On the second level you have two cliff jump platforms and a natural water slide where as on the third one you have a rope swing and some smaller cliff jumps. Kids had an amazing time, Eddie got to socialize a ton and everyone loved him. Should have arrived a bit sooner due to the sun not having a large window of reaching the canyon bottom. Also had to rush to get back to make it for my nightshift. Make sure to full screen it and turn on sound 👌. • #familyadventure #adventurefamily #hikingwithkids #familyhike #explorebc #familyadventures #adventure #bctrails #trails #adventuretime #adventurers #waterhole #waterholes #ropeswing #waterslide #insta360 #insta360ONER #AdaptToTheAction #360camera #360 #actioncamera #videography #notadrone #drone #dronevideo #dji #djimavicmini #mavicmini #dronevideography

Have been seeing some activity on Trailforks regarding “Smoke 2 Joints” and thought I go see what it was all about.

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Have always wanted to see what this Chute Lake was all about and asked if the kids would be up for an adventure. They didn’t like the idea of a 1 hr forestry road drive but when I sweetened the deal with Mucho Burrito they were all in. The lake didn’t disappoint and we had a blast exploring all the little corners. Eddie swam along side us for the first little stretch and then went to chill in the truck while we went to see what was behind the bridge. The kids had such a good time they didn’t want to go home. The rec site looks amazing too for some camping.

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My legs were pretty toast after that first loop and I wasn't looking forward to the climb back up the FSR if I would go for round two. But since I don't have trails in my hometown I gotta make the most out of every mountain biking outing and so I went anyway. First I rode the upper section of Whiskey on the Rocks and then swung over to do Cherry Poppins.

Pretty rowdy trail with lots of technical stuff, rock slabs, huck to flats, drops and some skinny jumps.

Just as I finished the trail I could feel my left quad seizing up. It was a pretty miserable climb back up to the truck but I was a happy camper regardless.

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Laura has been waiting for some trees and shrubs to be ready for pickup at a nursery in Salmo. So after what seemed like weeks of rain there was finally a sunny day and I decided to take my bike for a little rip out in Nelson after picking up Laura’s order. Decided to ride something new and went to check out Paper Bag. They weren’t kidding about it being more of a XC trail for the first 50% but when I came across that insane slab I posted yesterday it made it all worth all those punchy climbs. Overall a fun trail but definitely a XC trail for the first half, after that all downhill.

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After our beautiful family hike I was racing to get back in time to beat the storm that never really materialized. The weather forecast looked nasty right up until our departure, so I was worried I wouldn’t get in another ride in Nelson.

The beauty about the Kokanee Creek Campground is that it’s right across the best trails Nelson has to offer ( in my humble opinion ). Newtsac is always a good time, steep, loose, and lots and lots of rock slabs. There is this one massive jump/drop that I still need to tick off but for that I first need grow my second ball back. Its the kind of trail that if you only would have time to ride one trail this would be the one. Highly highly recommended.

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Me and my boy went for a Vapour rip last evening, this trail never disappoints. So much speed and so many amazing natural features. Also was finally able to check off that last big drop on vapour.

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Whenever I ride flow I’m always tempted to just skip editing it and toss the footage. Ain’t nobody got time to see a bunch of lame jumps and casings. But then I think to myself that A.) I would probably love to see where I started out in a couple of years if/when I’ll be collecting air miles B.) this shit makes me happy and if someone doesn’t like it they can always unfollow.

So after an insane lap chasing Will, Vince made it too and the three of us shredded some flow and repeated some of the tech trails for shits and giggles.

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We went back to Gillard to retrieve @awger ‘s truck and decided to do another lap. Kept on driving up, settled @eddieamstaffy in for a nap and then rode a chill night lap down Moose Knuckle.

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Ladies Only. This was the trail that I was really after. I’ve seen videos of it so many times and couldn’t wait to get after it. Unfortunately on the first evening it got dark quickly and I basically was riding it in complete darkness. The next day I had to go and repeat the trail to appreciate it’s full beauty! This videos has scenes of both rides, and I think most are of the same location 😅.

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I really wanted to get a full day of SilverStar Bike Park in this summer and I managed to squeeze it in on the last day of the season. Unfortunately it was the long weekend so it was quite busy and line ups took up to 30min at times but I think I got 7 laps in. All the skinnies first .

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6 Stitches, @spaceethics has never ridden it and it’s been on his “to ride” list forever. It was my second time riding it. @spaceethics went first and just destroyed the trail riding it from top to bottom blind. Barely could keep up with him. He wanted a second lap but I had my heart set on finding that stupid slab that’s been haunting me at 3 Blind Mice. Let’s just say I should have listened to @spaceethics and taken a second 6 stitches lap. Got lost, didn’t find the slab and got a flat without a replacement tube at the top of drop a lot .

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Wanting to make sure I get my must ride trails in on Day 1 in case the weather decides to turn for the worse I rode Oilcan & Ladies Only. Now on Day 2 I still had a full beautiful day of riding so on my first lap I warmed up with Expresso.

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The video seriously doesn’t make this massive slab any justice whatsoever!!! Super exposed, sketchy and tight as hell halfway. You are one pedal strike away from the Hospital 😁

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The last time I rode Valemount was the year I bought my first mountain bike, the Norco Sight. Back then I didn’t venture much into black trails and stuck mostly to the blue. So it was interesting to return and see what trails and features I could check off this time. First things first, always pay tribute to the old school trails. So when I read the description of “Andreas’ Downhill” I knew that’s the one. Hand-build, steep, rooty and loam as far as the eye could reach.

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The Awakener! Wicked fun trail! No participation trophy bail outs on any of the stunts! Right you do it or you do the ride around of shame! Checked off a few stunts I didn’t do previously and many more to look forward to on future rides!! Who says you can’t teach old dogs new tricks . Getting more and more comfortable with the gap jumps 🙌.

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First night ride of the year. After weeks of back and forth and a lot of money my bike is all fixed. Wanted to test it to make sure everything was running smoothly for our little getaway.

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Well I’ll be damned, the Okanagan has a proper skinny after all. Lap 2 was at Kerplop and will definitely require another visit in drier conditions. To hit the bigger wooden jumps but also the smaller rock rolls, kickers and drops. Tons of fun and potential here. Only thing is there was somewhere a fence jump that I somehow seemed to have missed or they have taken down🤔.

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Last video of my ride the other day hopefully just in time to go out riding again. Now to only decide what to ride 🤔.

Wobbly Pops is always a good time. I’m surprised that it was downgraded to a blue line. But I’m seeing a lot of activity on trailforks and a lot of the dotted lines where old retired trails were indicated have disappeared 😢.

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Next up was Pipeline, I came to check out the awesome wood feature ( apparently one of the largest wood feature on the shore ‍♂️ ) but sadly it was closed. On the bright side it’s being rebuilt to its former glory. Trail was still fun to ride and this is where I landed my first flat, thankfully on the last 100m.

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