GRANITE
Joel had seen some of Reuben Krabbe‘s surreal looking photos from this zone. Two ant-sized riders printed on a double-page, surrounded by an enormous rock slab filling the entire frame. The sheer scale of it made him wonder. That curiosity is also what ended up getting him, Woj, and Riga to carry their bikes and gear up the long and heinous approach — once they found it. “Riding a slab that big is super disorienting because there aren’t any trees or frames of reference. When the rideable surface is a few hundred metres wide and you can’t really see much from the top, it’s really important to aim for the right shade of rock.” It felt like what he imagines big mountain skiing
DESERT
While the granite feels like it’s falling away from you, the sunbaked, volcanic mud of the interior desert holds you. Somehow Joel had never made it to the Kamloops bike ranch before. Kamloops has been a staple in the BC freeride movement for years with its berms, big jumps, and desert landscape. The bike ranch is basically their public bikepark, by and for the riding community, backed by the city. We all love a well-built corner, and with the lack of trees and rocks, and with the amazing dirt, the Kamloops trail wizards have sculpted some amazing marble tracks over the years. It’s pretty simple: the faster you go, the more you lean in.
ALPINE
As it stands, you have to know a guy to be able to ride the Paradise Mines area in the Purcell mountains. The crew met José Tomás Letelier Prieto, the guy, the usual way. He and Woj both were sleeping under their trucks at the Canadian Enduro Series. José is building trails now on Toby Creek land to eventually open a shuttle service bike park. You can see and feel the mining history in the area, with remnants of machinery reminding you of other ways people have interacted with this land. José’s preferred trail building technique, when he’s not sculpting pristine flow, is to just clear old mining road banks — and then ride them.
Trail builder and freeride master, Jose is also a scree connaisseur. With massive striated alpine slopes above and larch groves below, you can’t beat the area for high visual contrast, and terrain for days. Thanks to someone who knows the area like no other, Joel, Woj, and Riga were able to maximize the experience.
RAINFOREST
Even 25 years after the North Shore Extreme films and a whole lot of bike engineering later, it’s still a challenging place to ride. Littered with relics of stunts from the days of cantilever-brakes that resemble something closer to a physics experiment, you can feel the energy from when they were just building weird stuff in the forest and having a blast. That spirit is alive and well with a thriving trail building and riding community that keeps the core of mountain biking going strong. When you’re not just hucking freeride lines or hauling bikes through undergrowth to natural features, it’s the trail builders that are really working with the terrain to push mountain biking in new directions.
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