Steam Shovel is the A-line of Sun Peaks
I remember long ago when it was quite a
bit different like in 2014 the whole first part of steam shovel existed as a
different trail called Repeat Offender and that first section was rebuilt a
couple years ago and then they gave it the name steam shovel for the whole way down
the middle portion was still about the same as it used to be but for
this year they went crazy on the whole rest of the trail and it's amazing since
this is a bigger jump trail there's no way I'm just dropping in right away so
let's quickly get warmed up first
sweet good enough let's hit up Steam Shovel
Now that I'm on film I'm gonna like ride all sketchy, because I'm trying to show off
they rate steam shovel a single black and I can only agree with that for this first section
because after this with all the fresh new work a lot of it looks either like a
double black or pro-line
whoa look at that lip
did you hit that big lip?
oh yeah that's a fun one
what's up?
I just got scared. About what?
now this is the point where steam shovel gets drastically changed from before and it's epic!
it says inspect the first feature on foot
before riding then oh it's like an actual gap that's why they want us to look at it
you can't really roll it you don't need that much speed to clear otherwise
everything else is gonna be new for us alright let's hit a drop
Wow that was big okay that was actually big oh wow okay
whoa yeah okay that would be how sick is this honestly and that was a sweet line
going into this step up I gotta say this is quite something and I really like
what I'm seeing so let's see what else this trail has to offer holy you guys
alright whoa sick burn a little bit of deep stuff that's sweet
see if I can follow these guys into this is all blinds for me
Oh sick haha that's it
alright let's go again huh
Oh Zach whoa cool we're good all right that was
interesting
whoa natural gap
okay sick dude yeah I was like a bit afraid is gonna
case him because there's such tall lips I was like I wasn't going that fast into
them but I clear the bank whoa baby
wow yeah
whoo just made it oh what's going on oh I just have the keys to the century to
my nuts oh no no I like it back there it's a bit goofy cuz you're cornering
the whole way it makes it a bit tricky let's see if you can get some Redemption
flicked I went on that sketch sun's out guns out sit some more blind steam
trouble here
yeah yeah wait what sick yeah cool okay
I don't know wanted to send it blind
with guru steam shovel we are now merging back toward the lower part of
steam shovel has always been except this time it's totally revamped yeah I very
much remember this so I think that was a part of it evening all right
whoa Big Sleep do is where you crash into that kid Oh
buddy
whoo there
yeah so nice
oh dude that's funny cuz like what did you even notice the step up yeah so I
mean yo oh it's so different yeah oh yes I recognize this now we're
back into like old stuff whoa baby send a break dude dude up there these
are those harder jumps that we were session last time last year these new
jumps at the end were all totally remade and Wesley and I had to session them a
few times to finally get them Wow Wow as you can see they're pretty big and
high-speed wow they seem different from us
it feels so good when you can actually clear all those jumps now I did keys a
few there but I know I can do it better wow those girls scary well now we have
seen the whole trail my favorite part of that was that middle section starting
with the big drop that was so much fun
before the end of the day after riding a whole bunch of other fun trails as well
we decided to hit steam shovel again and see if we could do it any better but
honestly it wasn't really going as well as we had hoped but it's still good to
get more familiar with it because it's gonna be a really nice out tomorrow Wow
we were still casing some things and things were still a little wet it's
supposed to be really nice out tomorrow so the conditions should only get better
single black more like proline I thought it would be if this is not Whistler
let's take a look oh that was better
oh that's a big thing
yes
Wow okay think I hit my River again I'll look at that bird wow what happened dude
it turns out those two rocks were too much for me to handle so now I'm slowly
losing air I am losing a little bit of air yeah
let's just get down by the next day the Sun was shining conditions were all time
and Alex came out for the day yeah huh as always I don't want to jump into the
deep end right away we got to do a little warmup
oh yes berms are just beautiful
sweet good enough time to send steam shovel this will be Alex's first time
ever seeing this trail but we should be able to hit this pretty well this time
with the practice me and Wes had yesterday all right
no not really what that's fine okay let's take a look
at this thing yeah just don't go too fast you'll I'm deep right let's do that
whoo right on
whoo yeah buddy
I think oh yeah baby
and into the step-up
whoo ha ha Zach also yeah so fun key that drop
sneaks up on you real quick yeah it does huh it does
oh that's a beautiful thing
yeah man there's like some tech in it yeah didn't feel boots
no gram keep all your steam it's a hard turn but wait you don't have to break
this you're getting over okay
Wow yeah did you
well
can we just pay some attention to some of these super sick firms this one is
the best filling firm in the park I think you really have to feel it to know
what I'm saying just carries your speed so perfectly or what about this one it's
like a 180 wall it's pretty short radius but it's actually really sweet
this fresh work here is so epic
that was good man there's a few more difficult jumps like they're just tall a
few of them are hard to clear a few of them are not hard to clear yeah good
little bit but super good cuz it blows great man yeah
whoo that was good
oh you have
whoo
that felt great we hit them just as they were meant to be ridden but that's a
pretty crazy trail huh what do you guys think of that Trail compared to
something like a line personally I think I do prefer seem shovel over a line
actually but I do have to say some of these jumps here are pretty high speed
with some steep lips and they can be kind of intimidating some peaks has
really impressed me with all the work they've done in the past couple years
it's definitely a worthwhile place for you to go visit if you love tech trails
you can definitely see in my previous video that this is an awesome place for
gnarly tech if you love flow trails then you can see some Peaks have got some
great stuff for you as well look yeah
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