Hot n dusty in the bike park :-)

Regular reader might remember that the Whistler Bike Park opened a couple weeks back.

We thought it wise to chill out for a couple weeks to let the trails dry out - opening day was a mud fest - well maybe we left it too long cos on Sunday the trails were baked hard and as dusty as a thing that's really dusty!

The sun was shining, the clouds were hiding so it was a scorcher



The Crankworx Festival looks like it will be pretty crazy this year - the course is pretty much finished and there are an awful lot of biiiiig jumps! Thankfully, I'll be sticking with the downhill race and well away from the slopestyle









The milestone event for us was the opening of Dirt Merchant - possibly my favourite trail in the world - endless jumps but mostly very do-able and loads of fun











As usual at Whistler - everyone is there - you see the same people again and again but somehow there always seem to be new hot bike chicks every time we go - ahh, Whistler :-)









...and not forgetting the wildlife. The count today was 2 deer and 5 bears - kinda of cheating a bit as I saw these four (eyes left) together - mummy with 3 little baby bears - real life teddy bears about the size of cats. The pic is a bit blurred but there are 2 on left of mum and 1 on the right - and they were quite content to wander around about 40ft from a bunch of noisy bikers - cool



Stay tuned for more Whistler adventures soon....