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I haven't SS'ed often, but the best time was at your behest on a Big F'in Loop...not sure I've done it since tbh!

fwiw.... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i3QzPxdN1e4

stuff like this is what makes Miranda the Champ

agreed, would love to demo one! My brother lives in the Irvine area, maybe need to go visit and pay Tim a visit! haha

my wife and I have a few of these for dog walking at night, and still am nearly run down in crosswalks semi-frequently....drivers are objectively terrible these days, have to keep your head on a swivel and always have an exit strategy, fwiw

love the brand and aesthetic, although my middle aged dadbod kinda wishes it was 5 pounds lighter with 20mm more travel! haha

That being said, if I could get a raw frame with clearcoat to match my Samurai65 I'd probably be explaining a new bike purchase to my wife...

Miss ya D'Arcy!

I'm a fan of the 55HR, pairs nicely along with a pick/scooped mattock combo for most of the trail work I do...got mine at the front end of covid from canadian supplier so it wasn't too unreasonable pricewise

and personally I'd prefer full 27.5! haha

stoked to see this and hear more about it in the future, in an industry that's overall pretty underwhelming, this frame has been one of the few unique things that's caught my attention.

amount is limited to 2000 tonnes per year, guess at this point it's just wherewithal and maybe posturing...the District is trying to have it a number of ways here too, for decades they've shifted the goal posts on bringing the lots into the growth boundary, bumping up the population threshold another 12,000 people in the last OCP update, conveniently before the census showed us at that previous threshold. So the lot is outside of the GMB, zoned Resource by the District, yet they're upset the province has granted a quarrying permit. Looks like it expires in 2 years, will be interesting to see if anything happens. https://www.squamishchief.com/local-news/squamish-developer-receives-quarry-permit-3351269

a LOT of trails in Squamish are on private land, whether people realize it or not. Due north of the Cheema parcel between it and Alice Lake Park is another parcel of private land the Squamish Nation owns, in addition to owning a few parcels on Diamond Head and in some in Valleycliffe/Crumpit that also have many many trails on them.

In terms of Cheema property, many of the slab trails actually are on land that will likely be too steep to develop and as such will mostly be defacto 'protected'. But, this parcel is also outside the current Squamish growth management boundary and the District has said no to start the planning process to develop this lot for decades, and seems they continue to have no appetite to go there for the foreseeable future. Whether or not Cheema decides to action their quarrying permit is a whole different question.

Posted by: andy-eunson

Posted by: FlipFantasia

Posted by: andy-eunson

Losing a dog is hard. Dogs are so consistent in their "love" for us, that constant companion. I miss my boy. He died Monday presumably from heart failure at age 7. I had to find him back on the trail and carry him out. I imagine Big Willie will leave a big hole in many hearts.

really sorry to hear that Andy, always enjoyed seeing you and the dogs on the trail...which I also miss since moving to Squamish

Yeah me too. We always shared a laugh or two. My mother in law is in Squamish now at the end of Mamquam Rd. Maybe we’ll be lucky and run into each other.

we're on the golf course end of mamquam, nice to have the river trails/dike to walk Dakota on, and the golf course now that it's closed for the winter!

Posted by: andy-eunson

Losing a dog is hard. Dogs are so consistent in their "love" for us, that constant companion. I miss my boy. He died Monday presumably from heart failure at age 7. I had to find him back on the trail and carry him out. I imagine Big Willie will leave a big hole in many hearts.

really sorry to hear that Andy, always enjoyed seeing you and the dogs on the trail...which I also miss since moving to Squamish

good luck taprider! your homemade gear looks pretty solid!

2 rides in the past week and 2 negative run ins with ebikers. I was climbing up Jack's one evening earlier in the week, which some will know is a heavily used climb/two-way multi-use trail, and 2 jocky broped-ers sprinting down the trail almost cleaned me out on a blindish corner, skidding to an uncontrolled stop just in front of me. Then Saturday afternoon I was 2/3s of the way up Into the Mystic thinking about how nice it was I had only seen one other rider on the climb when I was jolted out of my thoughts by a mixed boomer group descending some low vis sections with basically zero etiquette, no yield, barely slowed down, almost ran me off the trail and of course half of them (the men) were on boomer scooters.  The lack of etiquette generally, especially whilst e-poaching, is pretty disappointing, though it isn't particularly unique to ebikes these days as we just generally seem to have created a self absorbed society. More than anything it's just made me seek out less high traffic areas and trails, and a lot more solo riding in those places, although that's always getting harder too with the people blowing up down low trails and areas on social media and strava and the sort.

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Posted by: Sethimus

and yet you prohibit ebikes in alpine areas. whistler really offers a strange message here. going up by taking the heli while emitting a shit ton of co2 COOL. climbing up a mountain by ebike, BAD.

I would guess the eBikes thing is much more about a) overcrowding issues and mainly b) having people who have no bike skills way out there in the middle of nowhere without the skills, plans or any idea what to do when their ebike breaks down. The amount of punters you see heading up the climb trail, already completely blowing up by the halfway point is insane. I'm talking about people pushing more than half the climb.

That's exactly right. fitness and/or the patience to get to the top of the Sproat network is a major squirrel catcher for that remote area. It's not perfect, there are fit people who make it up fine and can't back it up on the decent, but it's an important part of the puzzle.

Sethimus has been told previously that the two issues are not at all related to one another... yet he continues to conflate them.

Posted by: DanL

Posted by: FlipFantasia

heli access isn't allowed anymore. People hike up both via 19/skywalk, or up the trail itself.

So that's been "replaced" with the new Alp-X trail that Blackcomb helis are doing now?

pretty much.

heli access isn't allowed anymore. People hike up both via 19/skywalk, or up the trail itself.

lots of places in the sea to sky, even close to town, drop cell signals frequently so I almost always have my inreach mini in my pocket or pack. been a part of many incidents that while even close to town could easily have gone sideways quickly, so it's nice to have the extra peace of mind.