Steam Shovel is the main jump trail at Sun Peaks bike park, it goes almost from
the top to the bottom. I felt like this trail warranted its own video because
it's pretty awesome, and we're also going to be exploring the jump park at the
bottom of the mountain as well
so the first part here is quite a lot different from what I rode last time I
was here I'm not sure when it was redone but we were both really liking this stuff
all right
right on that's pretty fun
oh man whoa whoa baby
we thought that was pretty good but we didn't feel Some of them we're a
bit awkward but we probably just need some more practice on them
Man some of that gets bumpy!
it's really fun so let's try creeper here you ready
it seems like steam shovel stops here and starts again a bit lower down so in
between you can either ride some open grass or you can check out this trail
here called creeper so we're gonna try out the trail
all right now I got some hip jumps here
huh fluff
not really not like the newer super-steep ones I haven't created those
I just wrote them once so far and it looks like you need a lot of speed so I
give you clear them oh man okay all right this last portion has also been
redone some of the jumps are pretty hard to clear though before I was filming we
already written this once and we had a pretty tough time with these so let's
see how I do on the second time around
come on oh nice I did it hey those bunk that actually worked out better than
last time
whoo
come on they actually weren't as bad as I was thinking yeah feel them I did case
but I was actually feeling more confident though Oh for real yeah it's
like really loose oh shoot dude actually like went for them almost
almost all of them dude actually was going for them yeah I was surprised I
was actually feeling pretty comfortable and we have to master these before we go
yeah let's do it it's actually really fun yeah so that's
the end of steam shovel it leads you right into the jump Park which has some
pretty fun jumps all right the jump Park oh okay
whining there all right
the step up looks pretty cool but otherwise I don't care for those jumps
as much but what I really like are these two big booters you see before I started
filming today I had a really bad frame case on one of the biggest jumps in the
park and it really sucks that I didn't get it on film too so this is actually a
pretty long jump when you really look at it huh I made really underestimated how
long it was it was pretty ridiculous I just went way too slow and thankfully it
was actually pretty soft and kind of grassy it was kind of scary though just
give it a couple petals just to get rolling perfect perfect
I think that's exactly right because you didn't land too high up you wanted like
a few feet down and I think if you just roll at least no breaks but like even
then I actually wonder after I cased this one really badly as I mentioned I
had to see Wesley hit it before I would go back at it again
perfect day those sick
now I feel a bit more comfortable trying it what you just want to do is give a
couple pedals to get rolling and basically you just roll the whole thing
no breaks no pedaling and you're good to go
wait ha ha that's nice stoked on that alright there's nothing I
mistake when I hit it the first time in frame cases actually hit the brakes a
little bit coming into the second one plus I didn't even clear the first one
that well either so that was just a mess right oh ho baby
yeah you can overshoot that one pretty easily ok are we gonna send it you want
to lead then let's go just do it yeah you go for it you're you're getting
better with it so as you can see there are some pretty fun jumps here at Sun
Peaks but we didn't get steam shovel that well though so we're gonna hit
scene trouble again we want to get this more dialed some of those jumps we're
still a bit hard to clear we're hoping to master this trail today
just pack later over the whole rock
all right yeah this parts fun
right on sweet yeah we got that pretty good I feel like it's pretty easy yeah
Oh
oh oh dude oh yeah what happened how's it sketch I was afraid of like hitting
my peddling like your head all right well I guess we're all good all right
let's trail a lot better now
that hip was kind of fun dude we crush into your friend yeah he
wiped out were you Wesley just Nick I don't know what you did it's this last
portion that is the hardest to get dialed you come in with what seems like
a lot of speed and the Steep lips with the long distance does make it kind of
difficult to clear all these oh all right jump that
so I did chase a couple of them there so that's not cool all right that was
better than before at least but not ideal that's too far yeah I cased a
couple of them still so this will be our last run of the day we are checking out
route 66 for a bit and then we'll merge off and get to the ending part of steam
shovel to try out that last part again
just watch out for turn off to the right
all right oh it's beautiful
all right okay here it is we made our way down to the last protein shovel we
are trying this once more okay ready okay we got to clear them all this time
Wesley really wanted to try this again he was just not happy with how he's
doing on long weird really awkward jump
oh yeah I was in the clear
oh I kind of keep that still okay I definitely put that better
yeah
yeah I know like you really got a pedal into these Wesley was just not quite
happy with how he was doing you really wanted to do it again see this one's
actually pretty easy to clear but you lined almost too far down the landing to
really get enough speed for this jump so I find myself having to like put a pedal
in for this jump the last time I cleared it pretty pretty decent oh yeah nice
do a little pedal Oh buddy Oh dude you were way to the side there man
prick you wanna do him again well I'm calling it a day time to just
head down well that brings us to the end of the day we both had such a great time
here and we really look forward to riding some peeps again in the 2019
season I really enjoyed the technical riding that Sun Peaks had the most I
would say Silver Star seemed to be a bit better for the jump trails but I want to
ride each of those downs some more though there are other fun flow trails
here as well and we didn't really get to them unfortunately I remember barnburner
and home run are pretty fun too what do you guys think of some peaks if you've
written here or if you haven't written here what do you think from my footage
you