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This was
part of
the Blue trail or
007 I think it's called. It had a lot of berms, jumps and stutter bumps.
It was really fast, but not very
technical.
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This is the bottom of
EC1 one of the expert runs. I tried this little section
early on, but totally fumbled. It's way steep
and looked really
loose.
I didn't feel I had ridden enough this
year to have the confidence or skill to make it down this
without putting my teeth through my face. Having it directly
below the lift didn't help either. It's bad enough to put
holes in your face, but to have everyone
watching would have been
bad.
Ben thought otherwise. He continually harassed me to ride the
trail. I refused. I accepted I just couldn't/shouldn't do it
and
was fine with
that.
Eventually he won. I rode it,
quite easily too, and kept riding it the rest of the day. It
really wasn't that bad. I wanted to hit the rock drop you see on
the left, but the opportunity never presented itself. I'll get
it
next time for
sure.
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More lift
riding.
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One of the little table tops near the
top of the mountain. In the beginning we could
barely clear it. By the end
we were scrubbing speed to make sure we
didn't overshoot the thing
entirely.
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Not long after
the table top was this neat feature. It was a
gapped jump up to a wooden
platform. Scary looking
stuff.
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Here you can see the gap from the lip of
the jump to the platform. Also the differences in height. The
height of the platform
was at least to your
shoulders.
I
watched Ben and a couple other people do it before I would try
it. Sure enough, it wasn't as hard as it looked. Though one
time I screwed up and slid
off the side of the
jump.
By the
end of the day, I hitting the jump hard enough to actually
land halfway across the platform. I would be in the air long
enough
to notice it and giggle to
myself.
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The other side of the platform was a drop
to a transition. Though you can't quite see it, the next jump
Ben is setting up for was another gap jump. It wasn't huge,
but you had to be prepared from the time you hit the platform
to make the gap or
land hard in
between.
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Further
down the hill
was this rock drop. Again I let Ben hit it a couple times before
I tried. Once
I did, it was as easy as
the others
before.
Unfortunately we didn't realize
till the end of the day we were hitting this all wrong. We
were simply riding off the rock and dropping to the transition.
We saw some other guy actually launch from the beginning of
the rock (there's a lip)
and clear the whole thing. Next time
we'll try
that.
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This was the bottom of the course. It
ended with three progressively larger table tops. We tried and
tried to clear them (we saw it could be done), but never quite
had the technique or
speed.
Maybe next
time.
The last
one was ridiculous. The lip was about head height and went
vertical. Every time I rode up to it I thought "there's no
way", then I'd be flying through the
air looking for the
transition.
Unfortunately we never stopped to
take a
picture of ourselves hitting
these.
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We were supposed to drive home Saturday
night, but after an afternoon of hurtling ourselves down the
mountainside, we were too tired. We decided to stay
the nigtht at the condo and
leave in
the
morning.
Mmmm Beef and bean burrito - our
shared appetizer
for
dinner.
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