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Posted by: ReductiMat

Today I learned rain is good and freezing is bad. 

The hoar frost has fucked us over for the last bit but this morning was really good (until I blew three spokes and called it).

... at least from what I can gather.  I'm no geologist.

We're calling it dirt hoar (future trail name patent pending) and it is indeed bad. 

It's what makes everything so nice and soft in the spring but it really fucks things having it happen ever night and then biking on it.

i hope it refreezes so i can ride more dirt merchant.

Today looks likely to be the nicest day between now and closing with tomorrow also looking pretty alright. If Garbo doesn't open today/tomorrow, then that'll be it folks. 

Enjoy the sunset!

I think these are some of the coolest temps we've had during normal park season. It was very near -10 at the peak this morning apparently. 

This morning, ice melt had to be used on the woodwork in the upper half of Fitz. 

It's being closed for 2 reasons afaik: 

one is ice all over the trails. Not just snow, big stretches of proper ice. 

Second reason is people. Imagine being dressed for village temps of say 5 degrees. You get on Garbo and the chair stops for half an hour while you're two towers from the top. It's now -5C and blowing 50kmh with gusts pushing 70. How many hypothermic people do you now need to deal with? All so a handful of people can go ride in ice and mud? In the process putting patrollers at risk by making them ride on frozen nonsense? 

It's not my call at all but IMO opening garbo today would have been silly. So would wanting to go up there. 

Will it open again this fall? Maybe, but with city temps forecast to be between 1and 3 degrees the next two days, I'd expect -5 at top of Fitz so I can't see it happening in the next couple days. Besides, it's wet as hell or frozen icy crisp up there. just enjoy the part of the park that's actually riding well, no?

Stop riding garbo? i also find palming my brake levers when stopped helps keep them warm. the worst is when your brake finger goes numb so warming up the metal is key.

In the end it will become Duffman methinks. Single black mostly loamer with some slabs.

There's no sign yet so keep your eyes open. Bypasses the entire skidroad portion of old duffman. Goal is to make it more attractive to ride sidetrack, Mackenzie river, no duff or duffman from the split with freight train by having something better to ride at the end. 

Hope you like it!

for anyone who didn't catch it, Garbo opened yesterday. There's a new thing hiding in the woods for you where duffman meets the end of sidetrack. It'll stay open in theory unless it pours rain.

It's being evaluated day by day. There's a high desire to open it again actually, but there was still a lot of ice up there as of yesterday.

I'm not in tomorrow but I'll pass it on