okay that's pretty cool I like this
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some friends and I are on a little trip to a couple BC bike parks today we're
going to Big White and after that we'll be riding Silverstar for two days we've got Josh and Wesley
joining us for this trip we had a bad fire season this summer in British Columbia and we were able
to see the aftermath of some of it this highway we're on is called the Coquihalla and it was
actually closed down for a little bit because the fires got right up to it and even crossed over it
this trip was just in late august and we'd finally gotten some rain after a long dry spell
so i'm looking forward to some good riding conditions out here Big White is just outside
of Kelowna and we arrived a little late today so we don't have as much riding time
hey guys what's up so i'm out here at Big White with my friends Wesley and Josh it's they're both
both of their first time out here so that's pretty exciting my first time since uh the opening day in
2017 so that's pretty awesome problem is we came here super late it's like 4:45 it closes at 7.
we got like no time but we're gonna ride as much as we can we're gonna see how much trails it can
ride and we're just gonna have a ton of fun in the remaining two hours so this should be pretty sick
yeah yeah Big White is still a smaller bike park but compared to its opening day 2017
there is way more stuff to ride now I didn't have the best first impression on it way back when but
I know that today is a whole different story we're definitely going to have lots of fun out here
let's do hubba bubba let's warm up on some new trails
after we make some instagram posts about the view that is yeah it's beautiful I love it
all right
i like it I love it
yo
that's cool wow
these aren't afraid to get techy sick
there's uh some sharp rocks out to get you dirt is so perfect
yo this is cool
oh
sick oh sick now what you'll notice right away is just how rocky these trails can get
and even the fact that there are multiple lines in quite a number of places
to really make it a choose your own adventure kind of trail which I think is really fun
makes every run down a little bit different I love all the different line options
cool
that's actually so sick you can go all kinds of ways
yo how was that it's the type of line where it almost feels like the faster the easier
what kind of yeah I like the idea I like flow too let's do flow beautiful Berms
yo the conditions are incredible drop it says okay
whoa what is this oh that's joker line wow whoa that was sick that's really cool the joker line
you wanna go there so joker is their double black jump trail and obviously we have to ride
it today but I thought oh maybe not the first run because we have three days of riding this weekend
and I don't want to do anything stupid on the first run you know but my friends were
talking me into doing it and honestly I'm kind of glad we just went for it take a look at this
oh it's not like that big or anything that's not that's no problem
we just figured we'll do a chill lap down it just do these first features one at a time
otherwise just see how the trail flows and hopefully we can ride it again later
it's not too big is it oh that's oh nothing you go as far as you want
cool
that's sick
oh yo
yo that was kind of scary
okay that's pretty cool I like this
and Josh already wiped out
and this gets into why I don't like riding double blacks on the first run
okay what is this oh cool dude this trail's insane what happened to Josh I hit I hit
the jump in the lip of seat and then I saw the landing was deep I like like went two times this
far landed flat yeah see I don't want to go too crazy right away like we got to warm ourselves up
that's why I don't want to start sending everything right away it was it was so sick
finishing off the lap with hot tub is really fun because it's got these smoothest berms in the park
here
yo berms are epic
i like that one hot tub was sick the Berms are perfect I actually went in the ditch yeah
well we uh ride some more try gekko here boom boom let's frickin do it
all right
so we want to ride some more fun flow stuff that we've seen under the lift
so we're going to see what we can find all right but unfortunately my hero8 battery just died and
I didn't have any more on me so I ended up just grabbing the hero 9 to film the rest of the day
so for this next run we're going to ride a wide open downhill trail called catapult ranch based
on the views from the lift it looks very rocky and with many line options should be pretty sick
on a dh bike have you guys uh do you guys know kind of bolt ranch is that a good one
okay cause we're gonna try it so whatever
what the what I don't know what the trail is that's not the trail I literally don't even know
oh wait where are these guys going what the heck look at this that's sick
we totally went the wrong way
why don't we like restart let's um try it again do the actual trail this time
yo it's just a single black diamond so I'm expecting it to be a bit of a faster tech trail
little did I know it actually gets a lot crazier than I was expecting
wow
whoa that's cool
wow
yo okay let's just hold on a second yo what the heck that was the gnarliest thing ever some of
them that last drop like there's all these rocks to hook on I know I thought they were rollers and
then you just dropped them yeah I was like I'm gonna bang my wheel but I didn't really I don't
know the lines but it's pretty cool wes do you want to go in front okay just try it try it out
there's like so many lines wow
okay
wow that was insane what the heck that last bit was sketch oh man try not to die
it's a really fun trail but also different and very interesting in my opinion it would encourage
me to want to go fast but then every once in a while I would regret it because of some blind sand
oh [ __ ] that was insane I thought I was gonna destroy my wheel that was actually insane
oh man I think I like bottomed my fork out on that just from that one rock wow
yo west I hammered my front wheel straight into a rock did you do the same one jump up there dude
jump right into your rock straight into a rock I thought I was gonna like smash my front wheel
I did it like three times I thought i'd pop my tire but somehow it's still alive
I'm holding on and I'm just the bike is throwing yeah dude this is insane this is the trail I
want to take like a frankenmonster on this is a trailer that'd be insane that would be insane
I was freaking out there man like my bike is taking care of me so well
there's so much blind stuff it's not even funny okay what is it it's a drop yeah
you want to stay right on that oh yeah good thing because you can go way off
the trail did mellow out a bit at the end which was a nice change of pace in my opinion I was
getting in a bit over my head so many line options where it almost confuses me more than anything
but I really do love this kind of trail it just means I have to ride it a lot more
and I think getting good at a trail like this can be really satisfying sweet
incredible oh that is sick that's sweet
oh man oh wow
oh man I can't believe we did that all right we're almost down let's uh let's go into that black
mamba then black mamba was a trail that opened the day after I first visited here on its opening day
so I could see the trail being closed I couldn't ride it finally now i've got the chance
let's ride this trail should be pretty sick
oh okay
oops
whoa
that was cool for our fourth and probably final lap we're gonna try
joker again I wanna see if we can get this trail dialed in
but the problem is they do close some of these trails early though we're gonna make our way
down rockhammer to lead into it this is one of the original trails that was open on opening day
and it's definitely feeling a little bit jankier than I remembered it being
oh cool
Big White is one of the rockiest bike parks i've ever been to the good thing
is I find these rock stacks should be pretty grippy though
yeah dude that that's gnarlier than I remembered it being
i closed it already ace of spades it closed it and same with knockout that one's the
closet too so that really sucks they close the trails that lead into joker so instead we're
gonna ride a different float trail called dark roast and we rode this on our second
lap when my battery died it was worth riding again so let's hit it up flip some dark roast
wow baby
Big White has definitely expanded a lot more in the last couple years
about 90 of what we wrote today was brand new compared to what I rode last time and yet there
are still other trails out here that I didn't get the chance to ride yet so I would love to
come visit here again next summer and spend a whole day and explore the entire bike park
all right finish off our day block mama
there we go
whoops
sick that was perfect
i think that's a good first day we don't we got four laps yeah yeah that's fine I'm fine
this was a good primer for our next destination which will be the silver star bike park we're
gonna spend two full days there and they got some new jump lines that we're gonna have to check out
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