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Blowdown Pass

Pat Mulrooney — Mon, 18 Sep 2006 23:00:20 -0400

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As I headed out Saturday morning with Danielle the snow covered peaks in Whistler made me doubt that a high alpine mountain bike ride was possible. I look forward to the last few mountain rides of the year. The first snow of the year, no bugs and cool temps. We got lucky somehow and found that the trail was snow free all the way up to 2200m. As we headed back down the Duffey it started to snow and you can certainly feel winter coming! Check out all the pics: http://www.flickr.com/photos/patmulrooney/sets/72157594290230747/ Pat Mulrooney. Photo: Danielle Balik

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Deer Pass by Bike

AndreCharland — Sat, 16 Sep 2006 04:59:03 -0400

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Crack of 8am, well maybe slightly after 8 as Dale reminded us we ferried out to the middle of Tyaughton Lake in the trusty Tyax Air Beaver float plane. It's been 2 years so I've done a float plane drop in the Chilcotins. The plane was as I remembered but now has an iPod for your in flight pleasure as you cruise through the chilcotions.

The first descent out of Deer Pass was as epic as I remembered it.Fast, narrow and goes as far as the eye can see from the top. Unfortunately Jordan's camera batteries died at the top of the pass, so the rest of the trip's photos are from my trusty little Kodak but it should be entertaining for you.

The climb up Deer Pass was a bit more than we had expected. After choking down a bagel around noon, we had a 2000 ft vertical climb climb up to the top of the pass. It was mostly pushing and hike-a-bike as it was too steep to climb, but fortunately it was late enough in the season that the bugs weren't a problem.

The descent was EPICAL fast and open up top, with a couple marmot sightings to add to the excitement. The trail changed from alpine sandy corners to steep twisty single track through the forest and non stop for the whole 2000 ft, it was awesome. Other than my brakes squealing I could hear hooting from Jordan, Kris and Charlotte all close behind me.

From there it was a race against the sun through Humming Bird and Trigger Lakes and then down the Gun Creek low trail to save the climb up to Spruce Lake. At this point we only stopped 2 more times to refill our water bottles and to fix Jordan's second flat. Charlotte and Kris took off ahead, but we caught up to them shortly after as they were waiting on the road because they just saw a grizzly bear tromp by. We waited as a group, yelled a bunch and then cruised up the road back to camp.

Around 10pm we rolled back into the camp, hooting and hollering, and went straight for the Kokanee and Miss Vickies potatoe chips! A great way to end an 11 hour epic ride in the Chilcotins. Kris and I were both raving about how well our Blurrs' handled all of the terrain descending and climbing the rough single track like nothing else. For the record Kris was rocking the Blurr LT and I'm representin' by DH background with the Blurr 4X.

More Photos on Flickr.

technorati tags:chilcotin, bike, mountainbike, crosscountry, epic, tyax, sprucelake, lornalake, warnerlake, tyaughton, floatplane

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Tenquille Ride - Bring on the heat.

AndreCharland — Tue, 29 Aug 2006 21:33:00 -0400

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Kris Sutherland, Charlotte Klein and I left the car at around 3:30pm in 30c degree heat this past Sunday to climb from the Pemberton Valley floor . Ahead of us was nothing more than a 4000ft, 20K climb up to junction from the old Hurley River road and the Tenquille lake trail. Most sensible people, Charlotte included, would've left early in the morning to beat the heat. But Kris and I decided to hydrate and carbo load the nigh before and various bars in Vancouver. Good call! We were find specimens on that climb. While sweating more than a whole class room full of Bikram's yoga fanatics we joked about how we were hallucinating and we're about to pass out. Except not really joking:) Once we got to the top of the road climb we then had the hour long hike a bike to the trail junction, it's about 3km of hiking. Luckily the trees and the fact that it was 6:30 helped with the temperature. The descent starts after a small creek crossing and starts into a couple open glades before it gets really fast and winds you down the side of the mountain. After dropping about 2000ft you end up in some of the fastest winding single track in the sea to sky corridor! A few sandy chicanes and you're back out the car, in our case 4:45 after we started. It's amazing how quickly you can go through 4000 ft of vertical and 9km of single track descent, around 40 min with a bunch of stopping to regroup. Good times and well recommended ride! If you like your granny gear that is;-)

Kris and Charlotte beginning the descent in an open slide path. Pemberton, BC. More photos on Flickr here.

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Descending From Tenquille

AndreCharland — Tue, 29 Aug 2006 19:45:00 -0400

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Kris Sutherland and Charlotte Klein descending through a slide path at the start of the descent from Tenquille Lake. Pemberton, BC.