Life in the Desert - Kamloops part I

This year I thought I'd dabble with a little racing. There are a few one-off races like Rat Race, Crankworx and the Rippers but I wanted to do proper racing so headed up to Kamloops for the first BC Cup

Its only about 4 hours away up the Coquihalla Highway which is a crazy 100km motorway built straight through the mountains - its something like 5000ft at its highest






Fortunately for me, Jenn used to live in K-town so has many friends to stay with. Her old friend Alicia came up with us in convoy and she suggested we squeeze in a quick ride of Dewdrop so off we went.

Unfortunately we didnt realize no-one actually knew where it was. After a 3 hour ride all over the top of the mountain looking for the trail we gave up and headed down - and immediately spotted the trail! Once you're on it, there are some helpful signs!








Once we did find the top we realized why we couldnt find it - we were on the wrong ridge - here's the one we rode earlier!


















The top finally in sight

















It was a good view from the top - not quite the ideal warm up for a race weekend though - 3 hours of cross country on a downhill bike. Ah well, the descent was good :)



























Ah, a good decsent indeed. Turns out we were amongst the first to ride it this year - a week before it was still covered in snow :)








a tree












..and this is where we'd been





all in all, not a great ride to prep for a race but at least we'll sleep well tonight ;-)