With the absence of a BC Enduro series race in Canmore this year the STEEDS racing team hopped on board with the Canadian National XCO and put on a mini Enduro the tursday prior to the race!!!
As per usual, when a race is being thrown in Canmore, it was packed with competitors…
As i was still in recovery from a shoulder injury, i grabbed the camera the rim and the bar, and smashed out a few shots..
Mike Lesle…. Full Pin
Some people actually believe Sylvain is a grown up…
Who is this guy???
Burty dropping into some of the new tech section of the nationals course.
Sendy Sena.
Some sweet enduro suits on course
James saving it at the dusty log…
And then making it all up with the sweetest magnum pose EVER!
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With the rare occurrence that Eric and myself had the same days off over a long weekend, we decided to make the best of it and get the heck out of town!!!! With the upcoming CNES race in Rossland it seemed like there was no better reason to go de-virginize Eric to the trails there.
We packed up the Mazda Speed 3 as tight as we could and headed to the Kootneys!!
We started our riding in Rossland with some help from the awesome local shuttle service run by Ian and Tash, The Seven Summits Shuttle service. They had all the trails teed up for an epic time. We started with some BS and Monticola laps followed by the super fast and fun Oasis burn down into Trail.
After that as a sick warm up we sessioned a couple trails on Red Mtn Resort, Red Head and Pay dirt.
The next day was checking out the race course for some practice laps on Whisky, Cherry poppins and Crown Point despite the 35deg temps outside.
All 3 are epic trails that each have their own flavour.
Cherry poppins had lots of rock on it and had some of the steepest sections including a gnarly waterfall section followed up by chunder with a hint of bull dust.
After a solid session on the local trails we took the monday after the race to check out the epic 7 summits. Maybe a bad idea as we were all fairly gassed from the weekend of racing. But as they say…when in Rossland.
Weirdly we found the climbing quite tiring….views were ok though…blew our shoes clean off!
Views for miles.
Tandem bird flipping.
cant wait to get back…thank you Rossland!
This past spring we got screwed on snow!!!!Really screwed!!
But on the BRIGHT side… that meant that we got to ride bikes really early. So with the suggestion by Bill, why not start it off with a rip on Blackrock mountain in Kananaskis, Ab.
Black rock is a great ride/hike to experience any time let alone to start the season off. An out and back epic that showcases some of the best there is in the Rockies.
Andy sampling some scree.
Approaching fundom with some fun riverbed cruising.
Eyes on the prize.
Bill, Aiden and Al making their way into the alpine.
Getting there.
Radbike!!
Aiden throwing some dirt around
The wind can blow you off this one certain days like this day.
Epic views
The push
SEDONA, AZ
On my annual trip to visit pops in Phoenix i try and sneak up to the north and get in some early season shred in Sedona,
With the world being as small as it is I just happened to find out my buddy Tara was in the middle of an epic month long bike road trip and headed Sedona way
Tara imported her buddy Geoff to show her the H’s in Sedona and i joined in for most of it.
Geoff slaying the saddle on Hangover.
Epic viewpoint
The beginning of the Hangover.
Tara crushing the crux!!