In today's video we are riding some really cool freeride features and trails
in Squamish BC I've got two different days worth of footage for this video
first day was way back in July and then the second day was a lot more recent so
way back in July I went riding with Sullivan Reed
he is a really strong rider and the point of our ride today is to find some sweet freeride features
so the first place we went to was this insane rock roll this is the first time
either of us have seen this in person and I wasn't even sure if I was gonna hit it
do we want to put our tires right here in this kind of flatter spot to
kind of get a pivot point yeah or your other option is go right along here yeah
and then dive in but stay more right on the rock there on the strip
basically yeah I'm not sure yeah
right below our feet here it goes straight down
for about three feet and that is the hardest part
about this and your even turning slightly before it too I think it might
just be better to go on this rock after all
Sullivan was especially set on hitting it so I let him guinea pig it for me!
Wow
you did it! That was insane! yeah something banged dude it looks good though
you looked like you were in control you're in the straight line yeah once
once I was in I was like okay this is okay but then when you're in you really
take off fast! yeah I bet so gnarly dude
like where would you say your tires were like right on the rock or even like yeah
like right there oh yeah now I must have been staring at it and thinking about it
for a good 30 minutes before I finally decided to go for it yeah I think I
think that would be nice
nice it definitely helps to see Sullivan do it and I think I can do it now but I
just got to make sure my running is perfect what I need to do is make sure
that I'm feeling balanced in that slow run up speed into it and make sure that
both my tires are on that one skinny rock where there's only about two inches
of space
Wow crazy there that's intense I did it I'm soaked I did it yeah I
can't remember what I did I can see my tire mark right here yeah that was
something I was sick but yeah you got so much speed like I don't know like I was
kind of on the brakes a bit but like whatever you're still going really fast
so I was good with doing it just that once
Sullivan actually did it three times in total today nice and thankfully he
brought out his DSLR so we could get some sweet shots from this after that we
went to a new spot where we search for some more one-hit wonders we've got two
sweet features in this location we've got a really sick drop here and then
also another straight rock roll into a ladder bridge the drop is something I
would love to do at some point but I just wasn't feeling comfortable on it
today but this rock roll however well that's a breeze considering what we just
rode
oh what a rush dude
SiC
that's all me and Sullivan got to on a ride today it was really cool to have
finally found those features and riding them they're so sick on a more recent
day I went out riding with Squamish local Matt Bolton he's also a very
strong rider and he built this short freeride shell that we're about to ride
it's called poacher yeah I know I look sick yeah fun berms and jumps and a nice
road gap there so let's hit it
should I make sure I'm clear on this corner nicely you'll notice that I'm
still riding those orange skinnier bars that I had in that one Whistler video
recently and after riding them today I decided I'm taking them off and I'm
putting back the regular gold bars the 780 Miller's they just work a lot better
for me so just are like right here like on the landing nothing yeah cool looks
awesome yeah have you noticed that I'm wearing a new helmet after my big crash
in that tree you've seen recently I needed to replace my old white helmet so
I bought this black shred helmet because it was a really good deal and I figured
with this helmet I can do that side camera mount just like I did previously
and I can also do under the visor mount as well now I got the smallest one but
it still doesn't quite fit as snug as I would hope and so I actually ended up
buying a size medium Fox carbon rampage helmet and that's the one I'm going to
be riding the most I set up a chin cam set up just like seals will fill also
doing under the visor man on this thing as well so I'm not sure how much I'm
actually gonna use this black helmet now but I figure I'll just keep it as like a
backup helmet I guess because I'm kind of weird like that and I can always do
that side helmet camera angle with this helmet which I won't do too often but
might be cool to try once in a while
dropping in
hahaha
all within this small little area there's actually a number of fun little
trails with some sweet jumps and freeride features including an old
decommissioned trail which looks like it would have been fun to ride look at this
found some old log rides that's
well that was pretty fun now let's check out another trail it's actually quite
similar that's cool
whoo yeah got it oh yeah
Wow I almost like that there's another really cool trail called influencer and
this is one that matt has also built it's got a pretty spicy little squirrel
catcher if you ask me wow yeah that's Steve lining and yeah well first land in
the turn yeah yeah I don't know if I'm the best at this kind of stuff yeah yeah
I know like almost crawl off of it yeah you want to like pretty much go to abut
this rock here and then just like let her go it's perfect yeah y'all do it you
can see this beautiful sure see you think yeah sweet yeah just land on the
breaks then just really like hug left okay dropping in
oh yeah nice yeah okay this jump is just it's it's shorter then you'd kind of
expect with this lip yeah yeah I guess it's like yeah that tree there
I want to give a big thank you to Matt and Sullivan for showing me some sweet
stuff around Squamish check them out on Instagram they're both awesome riders
and I want to give a big thanks to all my patrons for supporting this channel
but as of right now I'm actually taking a four-week break from uploading to
YouTube I mentioned that in last week's video so today is where it starts
Wednesday February 5th should be the next day that you'll see a video for
mine here on YouTube I would just really like to spend a bit of time not having
any schedules or any obligations for a certain amount of time now I am going to
do some work and catch up and develop some things and learn some things and
otherwise just have a nice break I believe this will benefit my channel so
I hope you guys are looking forward to the rest of this year come back on
February 5th and we're gonna have an awesome year together see you guys next
time