wow okay sick
okay
i don't know about you guys but i love riding rock slaps there aren't really any rock slabs
on my local trails so i don't get as much experience with them the rock slabs mostly
exist in the squamish whistler Pemberton regions it's mostly all granite rock which is very grippy
even in the rain so today is the day after i rode whistler as you've seen in last week's video
i drove about 20 minutes north up to Pemberton i met up with the big crew we've got about 17
people doing shuttles today and we're gonna ride some new trails that I've never ridden
before today's video is gonna focus on PHD a super fun double black trail with
tons of rock slabs I'm looking forward to progressing my slab skills today and what
we're looking at here is the ending of the upper portion of the trail to give us a little glimpse
of what's to come a few of us wanted to warm up on this slab I'm gonna go right there I'm like
the very right yeah very very that actually might work good too actually runs at the corner a bit
they did that pretty chill pretty controlled I'll probably just do their line okay drop again
yes
sick that was good you can you can keep your slow speed and control pretty good have you written
this before no it's all new but the more fun stuff is this section yeah while the upper section may
be more fun and more difficult we're going to start on the midsection to really see what we're
getting ourselves into and after that some of us are gonna go all the way to the top we've got a
bit of a traversal for this first portion here but once it gets going it doesn't really stop
all right looks good
we got more slabs it just slab on slide on slap all slabs just send it blind
whoa look at this sick
yeah yeah dude oh this is awesome yeah there's
so many hits all the way yeah it's just nonstop that's cool
okay interesting
yes
cool all these slabs are so sick
all right
sick super good on this trail you will encounter a few gnarly climbs and some flat pedaly sections
but soon enough we're back to our regular programming
i can't get enough of these rock slabs they are so much fun
cool
all right thanks
oh i was chunky
what's uh what are we looking here right around okay let's see what do we got here it's just
a big geode at the bottom so if you could like but then you don't go too fast down these slabs
yeah and then really shut down peak and then yeah then it's just a straight like sick straight
all right
oh look at this
sick
this trail is so chunky in between features
stick
yeah i did yeah that like seemed like geo it's cool
actual free fall on that one yeah the right around to that bit is actually like hard oh yeah because
it's just been chewed up by so many people going that way instead yeah it's just like this savage
just that raw everything else is fine nice yeah yeah
oh wow whoa
this is sweet
oh sick
ah it's the end now huh
nice
i do have to say it was comfortable being on eight inches of travel and some of those
g outs and some of those rough parts
gotta get the shade yeah super good dude it's always worth it to explore something new
so after we retrieved the vehicles we drove back up and a handful of us decided to hike
up another 30 minutes to go to the top of PHD this is where the fun begins ready to send
sick
all right ah sure yeah
all right looking at some upper PHD
wow okay sick
sick yeah man sick it's a good little warm-up yeah exactly all right
oh it was fun it worked man yeah dude you made some sort of a noise
down there I'm like is that a happy noise or I'm scared you know yeah
who knows manual yeah i can't do those
okay look at this it's a sick hmm oh there's another line on the right
yo
super good nice man there's another line on the right too yeah it's all super oh sorry
do you want to pull the knife sure let's try it all right i can hear you behind me
oh okay
oh
following nick so he's ridden this before
it's all new for me
oh
all right let's keep going
what the heck
what am i doing
this is gnar
freaking whoa back into sliding automatically pointing this way
yo oh so good are you kidding me so sick
that's the hardest move i think it was okay part of it my back end was sliding to the
left so it was pointing me to the right side so i couldn't follow your line but it was all good
sorry that's so crazy man i saw you like go around and i was just like oh I'm gonna go that way too
yeah i wasn't making it quite true the dirt i mean the dirt's almost the slipperiest part yeah
oh sick
all right we got a tree down more tree down oh oh i guess we can still ride
see when you're in the flow of it you can do more easily
compared to like when we looked at that last slab at the end of this line yeah it looked
like more intimidating yeah when you're just riding all trails like you know what i can do
it yeah you realize how the grip is yeah and now you realize like that's the easiest one
freaking send it
oh we're at the end here whoops
okay I'm just gonna do the same standard line
so good he went so fast
i don't know i don't know if i would consider that the easiest one no i don't think so really
it's just because it gets because of all the dirt at the end because the dirt you can [ __ ]
yeah at this point we can now revisit the middle portion of PHD with all that experience i think
i can ride this a lot better not bro nick wanted me to go up front so let's see how i do
okay
whoa whoa yeah buddy i was so dope
the flatter portions were still a little bit awkward on this bike but
i had a lot of fun riding the steeper rock slabs
what i would love to get better at though is just to ride through them with more speed
yeah I'm uh glad to be on my downhill bike for some of those
up to flat that was uh exhausting on my arms and
this is so thick sketch bill
there we go
yeah dude good timing yeah dude you're keeping up with me really good though weren't you i mean
that's about the pace that i would go yeah it's getting hard on my arms like
you're really working on your arms need a 29er
it is i even had more suspension which is nice on like the g outs that's what it was more nice on
it's just the down yeah but otherwise kind of stuff like that yeah yeah i can totally
see that yeah to switch things up from PHD we finished off on the stash a really fast fun trail
yo that's a sick
so
that's the tiring one so my wilson really is the most suited for free ride trails big hits big
jumps drops places like the kamloops bike ranch trails like a-line dirt merchant feel really
good on it admittedly the bike isn't the best on these trails since i have been riding this bike
a lot more lately on everything since my maiden is still in pieces i was actually starting to realize
what it was that makes this bike less than ideal for the steep gnarly tech it is a combination of
things some of which you can change some you can't for example the stack height is a bit lower than
i preferred the head tube angle is not quite as slack as modern day bikes the rockshox boxer while
a nice feeling fork perhaps is a little bit on the flexier side compared to the bomber 58 that i have
in my maiden the front tire the michelin dh-34 is a little skinnier than i prefer not to mention
that it is also a 26-inch tire of course none of these issues are present on my rocky mountain
maiden even when i had the 26-inch front wheel so that just gets me all the more hyped to finish off
this vinyl wrap job it's finally coming together man i can't wait to get this bike running again
it's gonna be so sick I'm going to have to ride it a ton to make up for lost time
what the heck how was that
dude my hands are yeah just like go like going down that slab was so hard because i was like oh
yeah i wasn't expecting that slab this is pretty big that was big okay my hands were just really
tired like my breaking fingers wow how did you guys go so fast oh that was awesome
wow now that's not all we rode today the next run we went all the way up to diesel wolf
and that trail is quite an adventure it warrants its own video stay tuned next week for that upload
otherwise if you haven't already go check out my wisps video the day before i film this
riding whistler on its opening weekend it was a ton of fun and i can't wait to go back
big thanks to my patrons for supporting me leave a like write a comment tell
me what you think of this video thanks everyone and i will see you guys next time