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Weekend Ride Pics, Cypress Bowl Provincial Park (31 posts)
|  Weekend Ride Pics, Cypress Bowl Provincial Park | Duncan!
Nov 27, 2001 9:37 AM | | We rode Cypress this weekend, the proverbial 3rd Rock of the North Shore (Fromme and Seymour are the other two). The plan was to climb to the second viewpoint and do Sex Boy and Wild Cherry.
Those who climb the 2,000 ft to the trailhead are rewarded with a southward looking panorama of Vancouver, the Lower Mainland, Point Roberts, the San Juan Islands and beyond:
The ride could have begun better for me ... SPLAT!
"If at first you don't succeed ..."
"WEAR MORE ARMOUR!!"
Finally finishing off the rock, which I botched badly and fell hard on during a downpour a couple of weeks ago:
Kudos to the guys on the ride doing the old-school XC hardtail thing
they put up a great effort
JimW blasts by
Mode ride pics by rider below, al-la "North Shore Pokemon". Collect the set! |
| CraigH | Duncan!
Nov 27, 2001 9:38 AM | | Here is Craigh rocking on Sex Boy, taking a line that is much closer to the face than I did
going past the drop and rooty transition down the side
Craigh rolls a small drop on Wild Cherry
Here Craigh goes over a rooty section
And finally from the "Steeper Than It Looks" Department
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| Thanks for the pic Duncan! | CraigH
Nov 27, 2001 9:59 AM | | Also thanks to your dashing photo assistant LeeL!
Any chance you could email me the high res. versions of my pics? |
| Argg! Stupid double post, ignore this one. NM | CraigH
Nov 27, 2001 10:01 AM | | nm |
| Actually ... | Duncan!
Nov 27, 2001 11:04 AM | | I decided to set the camera to lo-res (640X480 format) for the day for pretty much the first time. Seems to suck far less juice out of the battery. I need to experiment with resolution, flash, adaptation to lighting, exposure settings etc some more. |
| Thanks for the pics, Duncan! | CraigH
Nov 27, 2001 10:00 AM | | Also thanks to your dashing photo assistant LeeL!
Any chance you could email me the high res. versions of my pics? |
| *blush* Thanks for the pictures..... | Monte
Nov 27, 2001 12:10 PM | | Good day, eh? It's going to be a fun winter.
Monte |
| How long did it take to get back across the border? | CraigH
Nov 27, 2001 12:37 PM | | I heard stories of 5 hour waits!
What did you guys ride for the 3rd loop? |
| 2 1/2 hours..... | Monte
Nov 27, 2001 12:43 PM | | what a joke. I've got to find a way to cut the line. There is a side road that comes in right at the Duty Free Store, need to link up to that.
We rode Firehose. Fun and short.
Monte |
| Long line up was due to US holiday traffic.... | CraigH
Nov 27, 2001 1:02 PM | | Saw on TV that Duty Free business has picked up due to that line jumping feature.
What do you think about Cypress again this Sunday, different trails though? |
| re: US holiday traffic.... | Monte
Nov 27, 2001 1:11 PM | | I know it was the holiday traffic. But I need to get the shortcut figured out just incase.
Sunday? Dunno yet. Doing Cypress again would be okay with me.
Monte |
| Monte | stokey
Nov 27, 2001 2:32 PM | | wow!
great shots!
looks like fun stuff!
i still want a stinky deluxe!
went skiing at brighton instead today... snow.. white stuff...
nice n soft...
g! |
| no gary its | brodiegrrl
Nov 27, 2001 6:42 PM | | NEED!
Then you can ride like Duncan!
Otherwise you'll ride like me and walk down the F#($ing trail. |
| Just think what you could ride like with a VPS! (nm) | CraigH
Nov 28, 2001 10:28 AM | | mn |
| Pokemon or Power Rangers? | KriZkit
Nov 27, 2001 9:56 AM | | Those are some excellent pictures Duncan! Truly some Ga-Narly riding there. What a twist of slippery rocks and roots. I'll just watch thank-you! |
| Hard Tail guys.... | CraigH
Nov 27, 2001 9:57 AM | | Blue helmet with blue sleeves on jacket = Aaron (sp?) a friend of LeeL's.
Blue helmet with orange fork & gold rims = ToddC a long time member of the lawyer ride list although we haven't seen him on a ride in a long time. |
| looks fantastic! | narlus
Nov 27, 2001 10:25 AM | | gotta get out to BC, gotta get out to BC, gotta get out to BC...
thanks for the pics, and driving my jealously quotient to new levels! |
| Let me know when you are coming out! (NM) | CraigH
Nov 27, 2001 10:38 AM | | nm |
| Muchos gracias, Duncan! | JimC
Nov 27, 2001 10:38 AM | | One of the best rides I've had in a long time. What's scary is 2 years back I walked that stuff, last year it was fear holding me back, now no walk, no fear, except for teh cliffs and major drops. However, notice that I still can't ride it very well, but it is truly a blast. I need more armour, bigger tires, and, and, and, what am I thinking? Jeez.
Jim ...always humbled by the dang hills. |
| Right on! | kristian
Nov 27, 2001 11:07 AM | | Great pictures Duncan! Makes me really want to ride up there! |
| Good stuff, thanks! nm | mugg
Nov 27, 2001 12:50 PM | | nm |
| cool | HR
Nov 27, 2001 1:10 PM | | once again, great pics Duncan. thanks. |
| Xmas | stokey
Nov 27, 2001 2:34 PM | | hey duncan
i'll be in van from dec 19 to jan6..
the plan is to UPS my slayer to vancouver, so i;ll get a really
good workout carrying it all around while im there.
let's ride!
g |
| If you look closely.... | CraigH
Nov 27, 2001 3:33 PM | | You can see a Slayer in the background of some of the pics. |
| Cool! | Duncan!
Nov 27, 2001 3:49 PM | | Call/email me when you're coming in. |
| Choice pix! And a tire question... | woe
Nov 27, 2001 8:06 PM | | What tires do you use on that stuff? I wouldn't dare try it on any I've been on. thx. |
| Downhill tires: Anything FAT - 2.35 in and bigger ... | Duncan!
Nov 27, 2001 9:13 PM | | Popular choices on the North Shore - Maxxis Tires (Hi-Roller, Mojo, MoFo), IRC Kujo DH, Nokian Gazzalodi. No doubt there are others, but these are the popular choices. D. |
| My tires... | CraigH
Nov 28, 2001 10:30 AM | | 2.7 Intense 60 compound on the front (I'd like to go with a softer compound.)
2.5 Maxxis 60 compound on the rear
The other rear tire I've tried was a 2.35 Intense 60 compound but it seemed to wear quite quickly. |
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