With a minimum of trail selection right now, I'd like to take this opportunity to remind everyone that Crank It Up and Heart of Darkness are a BLUE level trail. To be courteous to the lower level riders on these trails so as to avoid the carnage that happened to my buddy and I today.
We're not noobs to Whistler, so we know the rules of etiquette and so on but we don't boost big air and race each other down the mountain at all cost. Just between Crank It Up and HOD this young (to me) guy comes whistling by me, which is fine, I move over and let him pass, he continues on and catches my buddy on the big table of HOD, and yells at him "on you left" while dropping in on the final big berm. So as he goes high side on him on the berm, I guess coming back to the middle he nudges my buddy and causes him to slide sideways. I suppose he panicked a little bit, but still. He jammed on brakes a slide down the trail into my path. I must have hit his back wheel or something, next thing I know I'm eating dirt. On my flyby I must have nailed him hard enough to break his visor. Thank God for Fullface helmet or I'd be missing more than a few chiclets.
I'm sure the guy didn't know what he had done, or maybe he did and didn't care! Anyways, he didn't stop but kharma points to the young lad that did. He made sure other bikers stayed clear until we got our heads on straight.
So PLEASE, all you young hot shots out there, go ahead and get crazy all you want on ALine but when on the Blue Level trails show a little more patience and common courtesy. End of RANT!
