Today I'm riding something brand new for me, Dark Crystal is a very popular
trail on Blackcomb mountain right beside Whistler you have to climb up this one
and it's quite the hike there's no way I can pedal that whole thing I'm riding
with some new people today Mo and Hannah Awesome
they have a youtube channel as well called awesome MTB they travel around in a van
and I'll have a link to their channel and the cards on the right-hand side
are we there? Nope! Alright sweet
we get to the top finally after about 600 metres of
vertical elevation gain which is about 2,000 feet I think that climb took us
about 1 hour 40 minutes or so it's quite a workout
Ya you'll dig this trail
sweet
dark crystal is rated black diamond and has rock faces lots of roots
and loam obviously since this is not a lift access trail it seems far less
traffic than the bike park so it can stay in really nice shape without
getting destroyed
alright on well now wait Kali then yeah go for dude
sweet dude yeah I'm also dead see good stuff yeah and then is just like Rudy
and Bobby thanks alright Ward Dark Crystal
oh crap tie my feet a little bit a little bit
wet mice sick I kind of fell into the swamp there I was going so awkward on
the ridge I'd to jump off my bike and landed like my shoes are a little bit
wet no is doing the Whistler triple crown today and this is the third
mountain to climb out he was pretty dead by this point I don't know how anybody
does something like that the Whistler triple crown if you don't know what that
is it rides three iconic trails you climb up to Lord of the squirrels and
then up to howler and then Dark Crystal to us they're all really huge climbs and
to do it all in one day is something I have no interest in doing but if you're
able to do it man that's pretty epic
Oh
right yeah is he just tired I guess from the whole
fuckin climb send in it okay that's alright this trail is very enduro as you
can probably tell it has some flat parts some slight up hills and some steep
gnarly parts it's not in a hurry to get you down to the bottom which is
perfectly fine for me considering how amazing the scenery is I normally like
the steeper fast but shorter trails but I think I can make an exception for this
trail it's a must ride for any enduro enthusiast
yeah yeah play exactly what I did yeah
all right there's like different little slobs little rock rolls oh it's so
beautiful out here I love eggs
this is gorgeous
it's so good if I can drink that water
I hope it's fine I drink this water yes you can drink this water it was actually
really good this is like magical and it's just so like untouched hey sergeant
yeah yeah all right hey what's up well this looks uh yeah like I just go like
straight down there you can like roll everything
we can't drop it in all right yeah nah Jordan yeah that's not difficult it's
good put these like carpets of moss so beautiful good job huh Thanks
what are we doing here okay I did a really awkward line there hey hey this
is amazing
Oh sick bear this would be so sick in like drier conditions it's already good
right now
right now I'm on like the perfect bike this trail I'd say this is now in
banking right on
don't know which is better
all right oh that's a superb
getting some speed there Oh
beautiful
oh this part is beautiful how's it like rain care okay oh I see a jump do
different routes oh this looks like the newer fresher one don't know if that
means it's better or not but it's something
oh crap
all right yeah that last part was tons of fun that's so good
stay with me yeah so guy we finished it yeah yeah well I thought it was awesome
he's like even more flowery so that was totally awesome
big thanks to Moe and Hannah for showing me the trail I never really ride black
hole much but there's definitely some great stuff up here I think next I'm
gonna want to ride micro-climate I also haven't rode crazy training
either so I'm gonna want to do that as well
finishing that big ride with some greasy food at zog's totally hit the spot thank
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