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I agree that HN is best ridden on a dirt jump bike, except that I don't think that most people that ride dirt jump bikes will ride them up there. Most dirt jump bikes are not set up to ride up hill and have only one brake. Not ideal at all since there is a fair bit of braking on that trail. People will have to build special HN bikes - dirt jumper with two brakes, rear deraileur, front deraileur, long seat post.
Just kidding, of course.

Rode it today. We shuttled to top of the road to ride Powersmart from the top, which was awesome by the way, then we pushed peddaled to HN, were on big bikes. I don't have the skills to make a big bike shine on HN. Then we rode up to Psuetosuga and rode it plus the below trails down to the truck.
My view is that I wouldn't shuttle HN because next time I would ride it on a smaller bike and would rather ride up. That road up to it is too beat anyway. But that trail was built with public money in an area that is shuttle accesable and has been shuttled before, so if someone wants to ride a hardtail trail on a big bike and shuttle it, so be it. I think that people will tire of that practice anyway, the novelty will wear off. The shuttlers, like myself most of the time, will stick to the usual offerings.

Katie is one of the nicest people I know and an amazing rider. I wish her all the best.

Yep - open on weekends. I'm in Colorado and even I know that.

A few year ago I remember reading one of Tom Pro updates and if I remember correctly he was saying they were already (back then!!!!) thinking of building a "blue" line under the chairs…Thats it ! thats what I WANT and I dont care about anyone else, just me,gimme MY TRAIL !!! lol Love it all really, just like to complain all the time, Im a big whiner

That line is flagged and ready to be built. Unfortunately that takes money, which is lacking this year due to a bit of an economical melt down.
I have traveled all over the planet this year and we have no idea how lucky and fortunate we are for what we have here in BC. Some of the product offered elswhere in the world is totaly substandard wouldn't see one rider if it was here. Let's be thankful for what we have here.

The Bike park is too much fun. It's like therapy - good for the body and the mind. I rode almost every day since the opening. Now I'm on the road for a few days and I miss it already.
Props to the trail crew.

I heard rider visits were down 35% last year, I wonder if the trend will continue.

Actually, last year the rider visits were up about 8%. That has been the trend for a few years now.

If we worried about every exposed vehicle, we'd never fly, drive, float or ride anywhere.

430 meters of death. I will never ever ride that thing in my life.

Rode the Peak to Peak last two days - awesome. Nothing wrong with it.

I'm not sure on the answer but I do know IMBA has had involvement in the education of builders either directly or indirectly with most lift accessed resorts in north america if not the world.

I strongly disagree with this comment. While IMBA has it's place - advocacy, land access in the US, possibly building XC trails in Colorado - they are way out of their league when it comes to gravity bike parks/trails.