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Holy shit that there is some serious carnage in that set.

Sorry the Clownshoes drop.

Nice write up Tim. You got me by 1 spot in the 80, but lots of time. That clownshoes section must have been fucking terrifying for you.

I was also hoping to head out to MSA but left it all too late. Maybe in the next 10 years Whistler might get one.

AJ do you have anymore photos from there? I was probably only a couple of riders after Tim i think, plate 8054

Interesting article.  10psi is a huge increase!

I just switched to a firm spring in a boxxer from a medium. Definitely found the front end harder to control/weight in flow trails like blueberry bathtub, but felt much more composed on rough stuff. Wish i had an air spring so i could fine tune a little more.

Great photos!

I tend to do most of the road trips in my vehicle cos i have a truck and most buddies don't. Ill never chase someone for gas, and rarely raise the issue on the road. If someone wants to give me money ill take it. Never dream of asking for 'maintenance' costs unless someone puked in the back, or deliberately damaged something being a dick. 

Imagine being 55 and fighting over 20 bucks.

We were there this year already for 3 days of riding. What attracted me was the amount of vert you could easily pedal in a day for that time of the year. We would roll out of our camp site at 11-12 with a solid 8 hours of daylight to go. Everything was snow free around the area this year by early may.

Did Lawler the first day from the highway - found the dirt to be just amazing, best dirt of the trip for me. Moon point the second day, which has some crazy treed sections, then crazy meadows with lava rock everywhere. Not as fun for me but still great. Then Alpine from the bridge the 3rd day. All the roads there are such a mellow grade, we managed to pedal 4500m+ elevation over 3 days and not be completely cooked. I don't think i would bother riding these trails twice in a day to get faster, so shuttling seemed kinda pointless to me. We hit Black Rock on the 4th day before driving home. Theres still so much to see here (Eula, Dead Mountain, Larisson, Cloverpatch variation of Alpine) and then lots more around Sisters too.

We ate one night at a sweet BBQ joint cant remember the name though and camped out at Black Canyon Campground. No showers but riverside camp sites. 20 bucks a night, but there are plenty of free ones around too. Brewers was good for beer, but theres so many good options out of grocery store that we just generally drank campfire beers.

Been on Code-R's on my trail bike for the past cpl months. Have been great. Did notice a bit of lever fade one day but nothing outrageous.

Am i the only one who was left a little un-inspired by the powerslave loop? Didnt dislike it, but didnt love the sections after, and didn't think it was insanely good. Im in no hurry to get back there to re-ride.

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Posted by: dknapton

Really thought it might have died down after labor Day but geuss not.

It has never once died down on 20 degree beautiful weekend days at the start of September. Guarantee if you were riding today there will be barely enough to fill the first row of the maze.

If its sunny on a weekend from now on it will be mobbed, especially considering extended play is over...

Jesus fuck!

The head looks to be the size of a full black bear

Posted by: grambo

2-4mm forecast Thursday and <1mm Friday 40% chance... thoughts on Dark Crystal being Friday? Not sure if recent rains have undone the dust bowl up there yet?

Havent ridden it in a while, but heard from friends Blackcomb was ultra greasy on the weekend. No rain (or warmth) since then, so imagine with some more rain itll be greasy but not muddy.

Posted by: Angu58

I rode it for the first time 2 (?) years ago, and it had a really well hidden entrance. Last year the current entrance got ridden in, but it got badly blown out this June after Remy's video. They did some cutting on it, but not a lot. Mainly widening and building the final berm.

Its still fucking wild in the wild. Getting on to the slab on Saturday, my back end went on the sniper roots, sideways at the top, too slippery for braking just smashing into whats left of the berm. Fun little trail.

yeah ITM is pretty shit for an alpine climb trail. Wish they would go and rework it. Sick ride and the rest of the network up there is amazing, but the climb was a miss as its so steep that it forces people to redline then bonk.

Same with lower canadian. the section just after the woops is brutal, but so fun to try and carry speed thru. just 2 inches of dust and some big gaps. what could go wrong.

DC is rough right now. They did a bunch of work in the closure earlier this spring but it just got blasted away in the first week because we had no rain. Theres a ton of fun off cambers, gaps and hucks to be found in dc. I love it. But yeah i think Hey Bud and Crazy Train both run better atm.

Alpine running good.

Same program.

When I run out of rags its generally time to buy a couple of new shirts anyway.

Masks no longer required in the line ups. Park running dusty, Delayed Fuse and Elixir still closed so creekside really really quiet

I would pretty much say that creekside and garbo are currently pointless to have open. blue velvet is fucked and the only thing open in garbo. So if you park at creekside you have to ride that out. then a long stretch of the road. Oh and delayed fuse and elixir are also closed, so if you want to ride creekside you get to ride southpark, which from my experience works better as a climb trail than a descent but YMMV. I totally understand trail closures, but by opening these lifts your asking for people to poach closures as they get fed up with having to ride roads. Maybe WB could update trailforks too? I went up creekside yesterday to spin a few laps and at a cursory glance everything appeared open, but upon arrival 2/3 of it was closed. I would have definitely driven to the village had i known that was the case.

None of this aimed at you Nickel, just hoping someone might read it.