- What's up folks, Christina Chappetta here.
Today we're in Whistler, BC.
It's June 20th, 2020, so it's Summer Solstice.
Longest day of the year.
We're going to get tons of sunshine today.
Look at that, it's just beautiful out there!
I'm going to go shralp up a bunch of Whistler trails,
some of my favorite trails, quite a few of them we've raced
in the past at EWS's, or local Enduros and Toonies
and that sort of thing, so it should be super fun.
It's going to be a big day though, for sure.
We got about 50K and about 2000 meters of climbing planned.
We're a little bit into the day now.
Fingers crossed, no big mechanicals,
nothing crazy to worry about so, wish us luck.
Here we go!
Here I'm just getting together my kits.
I'm going to do a couple of kits for tomorrow
'cause I don't actually know what the weather
is supposed to do, so I've done my kit
that I'm going to wear, long sleeve, got the old gloves,
the wristy guard, little eye protection.
My pro little tip, nobody ever talks about, diaper cream.
If I'm on the saddle for, I don't know,
six to nine hours tomorrow, I'm probably gonna want
some diaper cream at some point.
We're going to leave a vehicle around mid-station,
1000 meters in or so of our day tomorrow.
So, just in case it's really, really rainy,
I brought an extra kit, put some pants in there as well,
an even thicker rain jacket and waterproof socks,
a couple pairs of gloves.
Other than that, just gotta pack some snacks
and we are shready!
Got my snacks all lined up for tomorrow.
Got a little water bottle action.
Just going to bring the one water bottle
because we'll be able to fill up again after each lap,
throw a couple of electrolytes in there,
because I'll be sweaty for sure.
And we've got some Germack, some snacks,
some candies, definitely going to need to get the
energies up at some point, so we've got a couple
in my little snack bag already with some nuts and things,
the healthier options anyway, and couple of bits of sugar,
Clif Bar just in case, but that'll be kind of a last resort,
We're going to stop and get lunch
and stop for coffee as well.
So, hopefully we won't need to carry that around too much.
(door opens)
Here we go, here we go, here we go now!
9:05!
We're going up and into those clouds!
Sam's gonna leave me out.
First trail, we hope, is going to be Crazy Train.
We'll see how we're feeling when we get there.
Steamy morning!
We're like five minutes in, I already had to
take my jacket off 'cause I'm sweating.
We're like three kilometers in and we already had squeaks.
Sam decided to put on the new Drive Train last night,
so we'll see how that goes,
and we're picking up Ricky!
Ricky is always down for a good time.
I literally texted him about 20 minutes ago.
Happy Summer Solstice!
- Hey!
- Well, (beep) over there!
Here we are, Crazy Train!
Gowaan!
Oh yeah!
(upbeat music)
(bike squeaking)
- Yeah, its pretty greasy!
(upbeat music)
- Yeah Sam!
- Yeah (indistinct).
Who doesn't love a good dose of roots for breakfast?
(upbeat music)
Oh Gosh!
(indistinct)
Yeah boss!
- Yeah, that was fun!
- Yes team!
- Just finished Lap One, Crazy Train!
That was was super sick!
Nobody died, I definitely walked a thing or two.
Ricky, sending it out there!
Sam, super sender!
Thanks for joining us!
Have a sick rest-of-the-day!
- Yeah, and you have a good ride.
- Yeah!
All right, we just finished lap one, we got rid of Ricky,
we're going to go for Coffee Number Two, before we head up
into the other set of clouds over there.
Gonna go ride some Billy Epic.
Sam, equipment check, how's it looking?
- Equipment, it's Looking loamy.
- It's looking loamy.
Someone's calling, who's calling?
It's Hailey!
Maybe she's coming to play with us.
I woke up like this, no big deal!
- [Sam] Hey!
- Yeah, I didn't wake up too much (indistinct).
- Well you look great, you look great, do you need a helmet?
It's in your truck.
- Yeah.
- Here we go, Lap Two!
Heading up!
Whoa!
Look at this the epic viewpoint we just made it to.
We're just about to head up into the flank over there.
We're like halfway through the Billy Climb.
How are you feeling?
- Oh, you know, couldn't possibly be more dry.
- Totally!
It's (beep) hot out here!
It's hot, it's dry, we all were way too many clothes.
And, let's keep climbing!
(upbeat music)
She's savage!
Yeah boss!
Can we get a weather report Hailey?
How's it looking?
- Well, it looks to me like, I don't know,
would you call this a drizzle?
- I was just, I was going to say sunny.
Sunny and sick!
- Stay loose!
Oh God!
(soft music)
Rocky rocky!
We are on Billy Epic,
it is just getting really descending.
Whoa!
(soft music)
(bike squeaking)
(indistinct)
(bike squeaking)
(upbeat music)
- (indistinct) caught a button on my shorts!
- Thunderstorm!
- [Sam] 60% chance.
- 60% chance of a thunderstorm later, not quite right now,
but in a couple of hours.
Just put on a fresh dry kit, up until about there, anyway.
It gets really soggy and wet.
I figured, you know, what's the point in changing your shoes
when you're just going to get wet?
So we're dry now, bike however's looking pretty mucky!
Other than, so far so good.
I don't think we have any special guests coming up
on the next couple of laps, but you never know,
the weather's good, so we might run into
some people on trail.
(clicks tongue) We gon' see.
We're going to go ride Pura Vida!
Opting for the tarmac because, our legs need a little break.
So nice of the rain to grace us with his presence again.
We've done two mountains already,
we've done Blackcomb and Rainbow, and I'm just going to grab
a little shelter before the storm.
Going up, Savage Climb Number Three!
Got the crux move coming.
You can do it!
Wait, it's only a dab.
My foot's on a tree, does that count?
Oh no, I'm keeling out!
Yeah, there was, there was never really a chance.
We're doing it!
We're doing this thing!
We finally got a viewpoint where we are below the clouds,
so that's exciting!
Sam, how are you feeling?
- Well, I'm feeling pretty good.
- Yeah?
Your face looks stoked!
Got the mud-face, mud-face.
We are almost up onto the flank.
We're almost at the top of the third climb.
Pura Vida is going to be super sick!
I'm excited!
Oh my God, this is so good!
Sam's going to go to Spicy Lane maybe, I don't know.
(upbeat music)
(bike squeaking)
(river roaring)
- I've made it across another cool river!
Oh my Gosh!
(river roaring)
(Indistinct)
Hold on!
If I remember correctly, it is a lot of like
uppy-downy here.
(upbeat music)
We're on the Jungle Pass headed to Function Junction!
Because there they have more snacks.
And more coffee.
- Yum, yum, yum!
- Yeah (indistinct).
So you got one more climb, it's not that big, right?
It's not that big.
It's going to be fun.
The rain stopped, is pretty nice now.
Look at all that!
I'd be lying if I said my legs were not
a little bit tired at this point.
Now we're going to go up Whistler Mountain area,
we ride really slow!
We just passed the Valley.
We just left that side of the Valley,
We're now on this side of the Valley,
we're going to go ride a trail on Whistler Mountain
to complete our Quad-zilla-quadra-hedron-fecta.
Yeah, that's what we're doing.
The 'Ship Headed Challenge' as Haley called it earlier.
All right, found a little ascent.
We've been out for a long time.
Covered 43 and a half 'K' so far.
Few more to go to get home, that's for sure!
Top of Heavy Flow!
(upbeat music)
Oh baby!
All right, we've just entered Hind Sight!
(upbeat music)
Final little trail, for now, Tunnel Vision!
(upbeat music)
Flat wood!
The Whistler Quad-zilla (indistinct)!
Well, that was a ton of fun!
Thank you guys for joining, was a big day on the bike
here at Whistler, and it's really nice and sunny now,
so, too bad it wasn't doing that earlier in the day.
My bike is super filthy as am I.
So, I'm going to give her a little wash,
put this girl to bed, and catch you guys later!
(water gushing)
Gotta give a big shout out to Sam here,
who suffered through the whole day with me to bring some
more fun entertainment, additional angles and things.
I think our faces look absolutely stoked.
Good job baby!
Bike, you did so good today!
You held up so well, so proud of you!
I held up pretty well, too.
Pretty proud of me.
(bike crashes)
- Whoa!