Road trip!

I love road trips! My last one (which was just over a week ago) Jason and I decided to go to the Kootenays and ride Rossland, Castlegar and Nelson. I figure we got to ride some of the best the Kootenays has to offer. Some of the trails on our agenda: The Flume & Whoopity-Do in Rossland, The Awakener & Grandiflorum in Castlegar, Baldface and other random awesome trails in Nelson. In Rossland, we stayed at Derek Frankowski’s place and were lucky to have popped in to the studio where we got to see a clip of his new bike movie Life Cycles. This movie is so visually stimulating; I felt shivers through my body as I watched it. The Awakener in Castlegar didn’t let us down. This trail is littered with med-large size jumps, gaps, step-ups, skinnies, etc. We were pleasantly surprised with the trail on the other side of the road, Grandiflorum. It’s a super long, flowy, fast trail with amazing corners and non-threatening stunts. A real good, feel good trail for anyone! Nelson showed us what we almost were expecting: great hospitality, great people, and great trails. We were lucky enough to have run into Roland, a friend of Sacred Ride, who shuttled us both of the days we were there. We also managed to end one of our rides at the shop on “100 beer Wednesday”......and needless to say we had to help them out! Many beers later we managed to make plans to ride Baldface the next morning. Good idea or bad? After that many beers it was tough to say. Luckily it was good. A great way to end our trip, a 5,500 ft. descent from alpine, wild flowers up to my head, through steep , rocky technical corners, to the fast flowiness of Shannon Pass. Thanks to Leroy Brown and the crew at Sacred Ride! It was definitely the highlight of the trip! I encourage anyone that is in need of something new, the excitement of riding in a new place does wonders for your soul. Or it did for mine anyways!

(photo is from Baldface in Nelson - I wanna go back!)