Did a few lesser known trails that seriously pushed my idea of what was rideable on a bike. Like trying corner on wet offcamber rock with cliffs below you to wallride across steep waterfalls around trees and over their wet roots to hip drop into a gnarly creekbed runout. Unreal. When your mind isn't used to percieving something as rideable, even in the absense of fear it is interesting trying to figure out what to do. And riding everything blind at speed doesn't help either. A few lines I had to stop to try and comprehend how I was going to proceed, and luckily on one of them that I actually thought wasn't rideable I was out with Mr. Bryson who showed me how they do it in North Van. There is so much rock and so many roots down there, everything is at some stage of creekbed, and there are no off-trail runout options anywhere if you screw up. Despite how un-Kamloops it may sound the trails were super fun. I love challenge, variety and having the opportunity to learn, so with those things in mind North Van served up the perfect new kind of meal. I am back now and trying to let the poor body recover, but for next week I am planning another trip down, so hopefully there will be plenty more trails and a bit less carnage, coming soon.
Much love.
J
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