Weekend Report – WBP
Last weekend, my wife delivered a wedding cake to Pemberton (www.sweettoothcakery.ca) and we decided to stay the weekend up in Whistler and ride bicycles. The plan was to ride “Extended Play” on Saturday and a full day on Sunday. Friday night we went to the art exhibit “Flow” and the weather looked fantastic the whole weekend. A group of us was going to meet up on Saturday for some air miles.
On Saturday it was bright skies in North Vancouver and the videocam at Whistler looked good. We delivered the cake, drove to Whistler and met with the crew at 3:30 at the gondola. We got the odd sprinkle but didn’t think much of it but could see the skies darken up in the south. Some were waffling, some were anxious. We went to ride and it started to rain pretty much right away and it didn’t stop. We had the hood over us from the chair to keep us somewhat dry. It was decided no warm up laps were needed so we purchased some dirt from the “Dirt Merchant”. We were pretty much soaked after the first lap but no one wanted to quit. Lap 2, another lap of the best trail on WBP. Everyone still wanted to ride. We thought a lap down “Crank It Up” would be fun. We did 3 laps, called it quits then proceeded to wash our bikes and ourselves off… it was Miller time.
The crew not looking so clean
The team jacket from Helly Hansen kept me dry up top but I was soaked everywhere else.
It quit raining sometime during the night and it was sunshine out when we woke up. I was stoked. After a big breakfast at “Gone” we headed to the park and rode all day on perfect tacky conditions. We even got a couple of Garbanzo laps in as well.
Great weekend at WBP again !
Cheers,
JW
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