This is Whislter!

This is Whislter! What an amazing place, right now we are in summer and max is 19 degrees with the tips of the mountain’s still snow capped. There are still some hardcore dedicated guys skiing, but must be a mission to hike to the tops to only ski for 30mins down.

This town is definitely for the 6 inch and above travel bike for man and women. It is the downhill capital of the world, the hub of all hubs if you can cut the double black diamond runs. For us XC riders we feel totally inferior riding our Rocky Mountain 4 inch XC race machines around, but not feeling entirely out of place as at least are genuine Canadian bikes and we are definitely putting the RM Elements through there paces over the past few days! Can say that riding a 4” XC bike over some of this terrain has been the most challenging and confronting riding I have ever done and then multiple that by 3 for Carrie.

Yesterday I rode with one of the local Squamish hotshots Dwayne Kress who clearly can ride a bike like very few. It’s was pissing with rain so made good practice for the race to come, but certainly didn’t help with pre-race week tapering! Although I was part to blame as rode at 175 beats up an irresistible climb to “Credit line” which was a super techy downhill and found myself all over the shop including down the edge of the cliff.

So today the plan was to cruise with Carrie and try ride some of the trails around Whistler that the BC race will ride on the last day 7. So we set out in a light drizzle, and found some fun singletrack with lots of wooden structures, which was a good challenge for Carrie. Then we headed up a climb to the top of golf course to be chased down by golf cart telling us we can’t ride here, but he did point us to a sweet trail and off went on 3 hrs of the most technical trail riding ever (up Yummy Nummy to Comfortable Num). We only covered 16km in those 3hrs, which is a first in my books, I was loving life and Carrie well wasn’t. So was really 3hrs of relationship building as Carries confidence grew. The rock drop offs and structures are all amazing, and all ridable as long as you commit 100%. I only had one serious moment when I went back to show Carrie how to ride this one double bridge over a boulder to another bridge and rode off the second bridge into a tree, and that brought a pinnacle of realization of O’shit this could end badly! But the tree had lots of spring in it and didn’t break my bars or bones- so all good.

All up a wicked trail riding experience for the two of us, but can’t help but fantasize about spending a winter here as well as can only imagine how insane these crazy steep mountains are covered in snow, as we experiencing the exhilaration just from the summer activities. Back into the RV camper which we calling home as is bigger and better than our 1 bedder apartment on the Northern beaches for a warm shower and massage. Also managing to park in sweet locations and as of yet not had to pay! We loving it at the moment and life is good!