Sunday, November 22, 2009

another good ride....

Smith Creek/Soul Train/Feel the Love. 55km XC ride. Tarmac out to West Kelowna. Hooked up to old culvert trails near Shannon Lake GC.

Not sure of the exact age of these old water supply / irrigation culverts - 50's ? The trail to the left makes for less tarmac and automobile interaction.
They are a hunk of history that is slowly disappearing.

So we hit this trail to Smith Creek trailhead. Up Smith to Feel The Love junction. Snow at this point - with four tracks ahead of us. Up to Summit - then down Soul Train to it's top. The a greasy snow sliding descent to FTL junction.

Hooked up with the four dudes at this junction - they asked if we were the dudes that rode in from town. YUP.
So we followed them to the bottom - and enjoyed every minute of it ! A great day ride. Thanks Jaegan for keeping the pace solid. NIGHT RIDE SMITH TUESDAY - pics to follow.......

Ilana has now done two straight days of K1 training. Big White is still sub 100 cm base. But we're deeper in base than any previous year in the past five. I'll be up there next weekend - and every weekend after that. So I'm not giving up on skiing - just wanting to ride as much and as long as possible.
The smile on Ilana's ( on right ) & Ella's face says it all. Wow - they are pumped to be using the sticks !!


Here's to more snow - and some XC riding in before the base is too deep.

Kudos to all IMAZ competitors too. Jaegan & I would periodically call out today - yup swim over - yup well into bike - what's the temp down there ? - how many competitors you think ? - flat course no doubt.....We're Xc riding to keep the IM 2010 results solid.

Cheers,

B

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