Evolution looks like a rad shop. On the smaller size but lots of good gear and vibe. I'll get the name of the shop i rented the DJ bike - Concor or something like that.
So I banged myself up and probably won't get a chance to ride DH. Bummed but I guess it could be worse.
Came off snow with the boys and walked by the DJ park on the way to the hotel. On the deck one kid looked familiar - saw he was on a Trek and put 2 and 2 together - yup Semenuk. R Dog Howard was there too. Saw Brandon take 2 runs looking smooth as hell and made me want to get that fence line. They made it look straight forward and the sets are aren't that much bigger than stuff we had at our trails back home. Long story short - got to the 3rd set but carried too much speed and end up bail to flat to badly bruised heel, calf muscle is really sore and some rash on the hip and arm too. But ankle seems fine so it could have been a lot worse.
Woke up to black and blue and swollen heel so pop a couple of Advil, got the boys out to camp and figured a XC tour wouldn't be bad. Got a 29" full sussy Rocky Mtn with a Rock Shox dropper post. Rode the Lost Lake area trails - really fun XC trail that is on the tech side. I was surprised some of the stuff was marked blue but I guess BC is on that other level
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I ended up at Lost Lake about 2/3 thru. Really cool spot and would be a nice spot to take a rest but my heel was killing so I wanted to keep going.
Dropped down some of the same trails I climbed and had a blast. Really nicely made trail using sustainable materials and methods. (would love to see some of this used at Hartshorne/Huber - I have been biting my lip on that thread and it is made much tougher after riding properly made singletrack).
Came thru town and popped into the Cut Yer Bars zone. Apparently this is the first Whistler mtb trail spot which I didn't know until I was returning the bike. I could see old fall line sections replaced with bench cut and switchback and figured it was some old trail. There were black and blue options. So I picked and chose as I went up. I was probably riding at 60% and on a weird feeling bike so I tried to keep it mellow. Came across some pretty gnarly sections that would be a blast with a little more of a freeride bike.
I took this pic as I came out of the woods of Cut Yer Bars - my sons were at camp up on the other side of that bowl in the right corner
Some pics from up top - if some of you like snow shots:
Coop coming down on the cat track at the end of day yesterday.
Sean was having fun on the hip at camp - he said he was getting past the flag today. The level of riding up there is mental. Sean is a pretty solid skier and is on the lower end. The glacier is heavy duty. A totally different world up there. The amount of sun feels like you are in an oven with sun rays coming from all over. Lift service is a T bar which is really hard too and there are sections where the spring tightens up and then launches you in the air. Then there is the ski/snowboard skill levels: the US and Canadian national teams are at CofC - Oakley is up here - 4front. The boys got to see an Olympic medal today. I saw Mark McMorris and a ton of others killing 50ft plus jumps. Pretty nuts watching these guys and girls pin it for a few hundred feet and spin at such heights.
Pretty funny seeing bears going up and down the lifts. Everything is bear proof as they are crafty buggers.