Winter Wonderland.
Things are starting to get shredtastic out there on the shore. Dave Smith (@apeshape) & I banged out some great Seymoure runs with a friend from the coast on Saturday. The air was super cold and the dirt froze up solid making the runs fast and brittle. A few of the berms had been muddy before the frost and the ruts were frozen in place. If you were right on your line you were okay, but there wasn’t a lot of room for error.
Sunday we traded our coastal friend for an Aussie expat and moved the shuttle party over to the steeps on Cypress. I hadn’t ridden there in about a decade and was hoping for mellow conditions, but it was not to be. The trails had a nice little 2″ dusting of snow, just enough to obscure the patches of blue ice underneath. The first run down Wild Cherry/Roach Hit was pretty gnar if you were breaking trail.
After three shuttles or so we figured out where the ice was and got the corners dialed. Spring mud is going to be a piece of cake after these slick roots!
