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Kicking Horse Bike Park - Trail Crew Update #7

Published Sep 27, 2009 at 10:32
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Another fantastic season has passed us by on the inside corner while we were busy enjoying the sun. It seems like only 4 months ago we started scratching the dirt to make it ready for summer, when really it was 16 weeks ago! And now we are putting the trails to bed for the winter, to hibernate along with Boo, the resident grizzly.
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Kicking Horse Bike Park - Trail Crew Update #6

Published Aug 26, 2009 at 13:37
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Amazing what a bit of low pressure can do. After that long July drought, it rained for almost a week since my last blog. You could almost hear the earth sigh as she absorbed the precious liquid. That change to the soil texture allowed us to finally get a good grip on Superberm. We spent about 6 days filling bomb holes and patching and extending berms. Don't just take my word for it though, here are a couple messages left on the unofficial "official" Kicking Horse thread: "Superberm was in the best shape I've been on it!" & "Just rode Superberm today and it is MINT."
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Kicking Horse Bike Park - Trail Crew Update #5

Published Aug 11, 2009 at 13:15
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This one goes out to our man Bruce Lessor, who is staring the biggest gap jump of any of our lives straight in the eye.

Learn how the trails are holding up inside,
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Kicking Horse Bike Park - Trail Crew Update #4

Published Jul 25, 2009 at 15:00
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Sometimes it seems as though the sky has forgotten how to rain. Like the rest of BC, we are experiencing a hot, dry period. But the riding is still excellent and the liquid refreshments have never tasted better – especially at the Eagle Eye, where at 7,700 feet drinks are served well above the scorching valley bottom.
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Kicking Horse Bike Park - Trail Crew Update #3

Published Jul 7, 2009 at 12:48
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Summer must really be here because all trails are open at Kicking Horse Bike Park. That includes Wild Rose, the newest addition to the network. Wild Rose was built specifically for the Inaugural Western Cup being held on July 11-12. This is going to be a seriously intense race. Times will be 4+ minutes on relentless, old-school, singletrack downhill (aren't those 4 wonderful words?). By my broad estimation, the linking of Pioneer, Claim Jumper and Wild Rose adds up to about 2,000 feet of vertical. There aren't many races like this around.
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Kicking Horse Bike Park - Trail Crew Update #2

Published Jun 17, 2009 at 23:53
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Kicking Horse had one of its best season openers ever on the weekend of June 12. The rain stayed away, the sun was shining and I saw nothing but smiles on a lot of new and familiar faces. Buckets of snow melted and things are looking good for opening the top of the mountain soon.
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Kicking Horse Bike Park - Trail Crew Update #1

Published Jun 5, 2009 at 15:58
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June in Golden, BC means many things. But most importantly, it means that Kicking Horse Bike Park is opening for the season (June 12). In anticipation of this earth-shattering event, the trail crew has been shattering the earth, crushing boulders and splintering logs into ribbons of dirt upon which to plant a few thousand tire tracks.
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Kicking Horse Bike Park - Trail Crew Update #4

Published Oct 7, 2008 at 8:32
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Kicking Horse Bike Park is open for one more weekend! The snow is sticking to the mighty peaks that lie just above us and soon it will be blanketing the trails. Before that happens though, we still have 1,200m of vertical descents available. In fact, except for a familiar resort 8 hours to the west, we are the only lift-accessed bike park open in the world! (…by ‘world’ I mean western Canada)
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Kicking Horse Bike Park Trail Crew Update #3

Published Aug 26, 2008 at 15:42
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Summer isn’t over until the white stuff flies at Kicking Horse Bike Park. The best part of our season is just starting. In September the sun has stopped sucking the moisture out of your body, the incessant drone of bugs fades, the colors change, the light is sharper and richer, the RVs are mostly off the highways and the trails are buff. All season’s work has been for the sake of killer riding in September. Are you coming?
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Kicking Horse Bike Park Trail Crew Update #2

Published Jul 31, 2008 at 0:16
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Stickrock is now open! Phase I was cracked last week. This is Kicking Horse’s first Double Black Diamond trail. Not that it is crazy difficult, but there are mandatory gaps and steep rock slabs, so you want to have a good hard look and think about the trail before committing. But it is designed to flow; all the gaps can be cleared at casual trail speed. No need for death-defying leaps of faith. If you are comfortable riding all of Spiral Tap on Pioneer trail, then you are ready for this one. It was already my favorite trail before we even started decking.
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Kicking Horse Bike Park Trail Crew Update #1

Published Jul 9, 2008 at 12:25
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Super Berm is now linked! The final section (section 2) of this Kicking Horse Bike Park blue run opened on July 7 to great fanfare (well, ok, two guys high fived – WoodChuck and me). Section 2 was a swamp with a drainage system more complicated than Middle Eastern politics. But one year, three machines and scads of lumber (props to Brett Soles for the cedar and fir) later it is a serpentine blend of berms and bridges. It nicely ties into the rest of Super Berm to create a very long run that has something for every skill level. I think there must be more than 40 berms, which is pretty, ya know, super.
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Launch of the Kicking Horse Trail Crew Blog on Pinkbike

Published Jun 24, 2008 at 15:58
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This is the inaugural post of the unofficial Kicking Horse Trail Crew blog on Pinkbike.com.

Welcome to you and welcome to me.
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