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| Day 1, England -> Calgary |
| Day 2, Jumping Pound to Cox Ridge MTB ride (Canmore) |
| Day 3, Lake Minnewanka MTB ride (Canmore) |
Day 4, Canmore -> Golden (Canyon Creek MTB ride) |
| Day 5, Golden -> Revelstoke |
| Day 6, Key Stone Standard Basin MTB ride (Revelstoke) |
| Day 7, Revelstoke -> New Denver (Wakefield trail MTB ride) |
| Day 8, New Denver (Various MTB trails) |
| Day 9, New Denver -> Rossland (Wilson Creek MTB ride) |
| Day 10, Rossland (7 summits MTB ride) |
| Day 11, Rossland - > Kelowna (Doukhobor draw MTB ride) |
| Day 12, McDougall Rim MTB ride (Kelowna) |
| Day 13, Kelowna -> Vancouver |
| Day 14, Vancouver -> Pemberton |
| Day 15, Pemberton -> Tyax Lake (High trail MTB ride) |
| Day 16, Warner Lake MTB ride (Tyax Lake) |
| Day 17, Tyax Lake -> Whistler (Taylor Basin MTB ride) |
| Day 18, River runs through it MTB ride (Whistler) |
| Day 19, Comfortably Numb MTB ride (Whistler) |
| Day 20, Thrill me Kill Me & Lost Lake MTB trails (Whistler) |
| Day 21, Ring Creek Rip & Lost Lake MTB ride (Squamish & Whistler) |
| Day 22, Whistler -> Vancouver -> London |
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Today I decided to go and ride down in Squamish. I stopped off at Tantalus Bike shop and bought a map of the local area. I said that I was going to ride Ring Creek Rip & Powerhouse plunge the shop recommended that I didn't do it because of the long road climb, and gave me some alternative suggestions which sounded good. But I decided to do it anyway, so I drove over to the Mamquam Forest Service Road and parked. Before starting to ride along the service road up towards the start of the Ring Creek rip trail. |
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As I rode along the road I met up with two chaps from Colorado, and we all climbed steadily up the road. The gradient on the road was quite steep in places and granny gear was used liberally. |
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There were some great views as we rode up the road, after the road dropped down to the rider it climbed up again and eventually came to 9 mile bridge. |
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9 mile bridge - we couldn't hang around here as there were lots of mosquito's here
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From the bridge the trail started to narrow and climb steadily upwards
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The climb up was pretty demanding and the road surface was loose in places
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As we climbed higher the view from the trail were quite good
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Finally after much climbing we reached the trail Head for Ring Creek Rip. This trail was good old fashioned point and shoot down hill mountain biking , and I probably went the fastest I'd gone on the holiday on my bike heading down the rip. |
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Ring Rip Creek was a blast , the trail wasn't that narrow but it was very fast, and had enough loose rocks and logs etc to keep you on your toes.
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The trail was quite rocky in places, I almost washed at on one corner on the trail
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I parted company with the other riders down the trail when one of them had a puncture
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| There were a couple of old car wrecks along the trail, as the trail got closer to the junction to powerhouse plunge it got a bit smoother. And the forest got quite mossy. |
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At the junction for the Plunge I decided to go and try riding the Plunge trail |
The doubletrack trail climbed slightly to get to the powerhouse plunge
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The Powerhouse plunge trail was pretty steep in places with with tight switch backs, it was a bit too much for me in places and i did push my bike a couple of times. But apart from a few sections I did ride most of it. |
There were some section's of shore on the trail
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Powerhouse Plunge singletrack was tight and twisty and fairly technical
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The Plunge trail wasn't all downhill, there was some climbing as well
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The singletrack eventually dumped me onto a dirt road which went past the power house, and I rode up the road back to the SUV, along the way Motor bikers went past my and covered me in a cloud of thick dust. |
The ride I did today was great, the long ride up the Mamquam Forest Service road was well worth the fast ride back down Ring Rip Creek, and the Plunge trail was also pretty good. |
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I drove down to Squamish , taking in the views of Stawamus Chief where there are loads of Rock Climbing routes. |
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| I stopped off at the Squamish Adventure Centre and the very helpful staff, gave me a map of the biking trails with some suggestions for good XC trails. |
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I then drove back to Whistler stopping off at one of the view turn offs to take in the magnificent views. |
| Back at Whistler I decided to ride the route on the free mountain Whistler Valley Singletrack Map. I headed from my Condo to The Lost lake trails, and rode Dinah Moe Humm -> Tin Pants -> Pinocchios furniture ->Dwarf Nebula -> Toads of the short forest -> Gee I like your pants. On my last run through the Lost lake trails I rode nearly everything which was a big improvement over when i first wobbled along on the shore stuff. |
The Lost lake trails were great to ride Pinocchio's furniture
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I then rode past green lake and along the the 99 until just past Nesters supermarket I headed right to get to cut yer bars. Cut yer bars was fantastic singletrack that went up and down and weaved in and out of the trees. |
I tried to go and ride A river runs through it but had to cut my ride short as it was very dark under the trees and I couldn't see where I was riding. This route was definitely one that all XC riders should do if they visit Whistler, I wish I had done it as my first ride when I had arrived at Whistler. Back at the Condo I used the hot tub , cooked my dinner and then packed up my bike ready for going home the following day. |
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DAY 22
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