Cafe Day and Tippie Lines

Last couple days have been super epic, just riding tons with family and friends. Today we had a Cafe team ride day at Sun Peaks with the whole crew and it was super fun. It has been raining a lot lately so the ground was borderline muddy delightful and I couldn't keep a smile off my face. It was also so cold up there that it actually snowed on us a lot of the day up top. We were there all day, did a ton of runs, made our presence felt and shredded the entire mountain which was awesome.
After Sun Peaks I came to town and rode this crazy old school Tippie-esque line with my buddy Steve. Out by my old high school there is this rocky mountain called the Beacon... it has a bunch of cliffs up top with chutes and a rock field below. Back in high school we would hike around under the cliffs with our bikes and then ride the chutes into the rock fields below. I would guess it would be 40 degrees or a little steeper, with a 500 meter + decent. We pioneered it back then and haven't done it in 5 years or so... lately we have been talking about it lots, so this weekend a few of us decided we were going to do it this week. Today Steve and I were the only ones to follow through, so when I got to town we met up, cleared a little runaway path of smaller rocks through the boulders at the bottom and spray painted it blue so we could see where to aim from the top (when we were kids we just rolled the dice and shot into the boulder field at speed hoping for the best. How did we survive that age anyways?). After we finished we hopped in the car, cranked the Led Zeppelin as loud as it would go and were giddy as school girls the whole ride up to the top. The hike in was gnarly as ever, and once we got to the top we scoped out the now very eroded chutes and the tiny blue dot at the bottom we had to aim for. The chutes had changed fairly dramatically over our time away, but you still had to start sideways to drop in straight down, make a hard right around a boulder to avoid a rock wall, make a hard left into the main chute, jump a boulder in the middle and then just survive and try to control your speed to the bottom. I went first as I suppose was customary in the old days, and Steve filmed. The hardest part after the hike in was just getting on the bike.