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Chris Eyres is our man on the ground in Whistler. He lives there. Yes, we hate him for that too. In the winter Chris spends his days snowboarding the twin mountains of Whistler and Blackcomb, but when the snow melts he gets out on the trails on two wheels. In this Diary series Chris is going to guide us up, down and through the local mountain bike scene around Whistler. Episode one introduces us to Chris and his bike and one of the most iconic of trails in BC – Cream Puff.
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how's it going everybody chris coming to
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you from a nondescript road just outside
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of whistler british columbia
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and i thought that this would be the
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perfect place to announce a web series
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that i'm doing with single track
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magazine called whistler bike
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diaries so to let you guys know off the
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bat i am not a professional
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mountain biker the level of riding out
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here in whistler is
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so high and i am
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probably somewhere in the middle
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and the purpose of this series is to
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give you guys more of a holistic view of
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what biking is like
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in whistler rather than just shredding
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all the crazy lines
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on the mountain in the western bike park
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there is so much biking around in the
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valley
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north in pemberton you got the north
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shore in vancouver
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squamish you have so much mountain
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biking around
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and now the real fun begins you
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as a dual citizen i grew up mountain
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biking in the north of england
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delamere forest wales sheffield that
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type of area
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and then moved out to canada when i was
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21 did three seasons in the mountain
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bike park just shredding
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but all the injuries and everything
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started to catch up to me and then i
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took a hiatus
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and then i never really got back into it
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but of course 2021 is the summer of
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biking it is official we have a
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beautiful new
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norco site a3 which is amazing bike to
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do basically all of the trails around
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here except maybe
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some of the most extreme ones on the
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mountain and
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yeah i hope you join me this summer as i
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explore all the different types of
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biking and bike trails that whistler and
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the surrounding areas have to offer
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from high speed jump lines to super tech
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to fast and flowy
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everything in between alpine trails like
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up to the peaks of mountains and
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down to the muddy bottoms
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and of course the bears because here in
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whistler there's still a lot of snow at
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higher elevations
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in this first video i had about 30
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minutes north to a town called pemberton
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where they have awesome granite and a
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giant curry
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that was good mom bears like what
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curry
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hey everybody how's it going chris
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reporting from a hill just outside of
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whistler
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at the moment it's just at the end of
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april and normally
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western black home resort would still be
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open i'd probably still be snowboarding
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right now
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my bike would probably still be in the
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garage but
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2021 being what it is the resort closed
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the actual snow pack the amount of snow
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in the valley this year has been very
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minimal
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right now the conditions for bikin are
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amazing
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so i am technically about 30 minutes
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north of whistler outside of a town
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called pemberton
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so here to ride no error which is a
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newer trail is built in 2018
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by the wolf clan supposed to be one of
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the best blue trails around here lots of
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awesome slabs
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really good for blue i'm super excited
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to try it thanks wolf clan
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let's get going
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no er rocky section
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so still only my fifth or sixth run of
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the year
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so still just getting back into it and
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this is my first bike that's a 29 inch
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wheels coming from a 26ers
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so that's uh takes a while to get used
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to
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doing all this for the first time so
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doing them blind is always fun
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yeah great flowy rock sections little
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drops coming up everywhere
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ew
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all right it's halfway down nowhere and
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definitely props to the trail builders
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on this one
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perfect for like someone a kind of blue
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level
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a lot of granite that's what this area
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is kind of known for these awesome
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granite features but the trail path
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is really good because it just uses uh
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you like utilizes
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a ton of just little one foot two foot
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drops
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and really making great use of all the
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natural features you see why this trail
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is
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right it's so good
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all right so there you have it no er
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which is definitely one of the more
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technical
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blue trails around it's got that black
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section
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of rock rolls at the top and yeah just a
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fabulous trail
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but that was my warm-up and now i'm off
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to do one of the most iconic trails in
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pemberton
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cream puff
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just a funny name and i have to climb
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back
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up this hill again
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between
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[Applause]
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bugs are out and i've made it to the
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start of cream puff definitely one of
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the longer access
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trails to get to but this is a total
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pemberton classic
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if you ridden pepperdine before then you
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probably know about this trail
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and uh if you haven't you about to see
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why it's
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rated so highly all right
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so
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forget this bit i've only done this
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trail once this year
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thanks yeah let's hope this goes well
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whoa did the hard part
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[Music]
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so
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so
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when i came down here last week i uh i
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really wanted to go down that way and
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then i ended up walking down it
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which way were they starting to go but
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center line
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nice so one of the more technical bits
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of cream puff here
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and you know it's going to be pretty
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tough when the
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young kids are walking down it thing
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that
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is not so nice about this section
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is this granite is just dangerous
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but one of these lines looks pretty
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doable
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nice oh sweet
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i just had a short punchy climb up onto
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this big granite mound and this is the
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start of
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the best bit i think like rock riding
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i've ever done around here it's just
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ultimate flow
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cruise is on for ages enough talking
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let's go do it
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little punchy uphill and now
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the real fun begins you
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this thing is so good
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ew
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[Music]
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and here there's a sneaky bit behind me
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where the troll used to go but
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had to get diverted because the property
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went up there i'm gonna go up and uh
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get a shot
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chief
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[Applause]
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what
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how can you not love those rolls
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[Applause]
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i so think i got it on camera but i
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accidentally just did my first double
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bike diamond
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of the year which is cool to do
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accidentally
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super short section it's called the main
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vein
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and it's basically just this little
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shoot
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but you start way up over there it
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actually goes up quite a bit higher
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come down come across this way and
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there's a hairpin turn
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and i should have known that when i saw
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the hairpin really it was a double black
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but came down here i was about there
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i was like oh looks like a little drop
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off
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here you guys can see the valley down in
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the bottom and mount curry
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which is just an incredible looking
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mountain so good they named a coffee
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after it
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and uh food all right the last bit of
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cream puff
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[Applause]
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pretty uh get pretty loose at the bottom
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[Applause]
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[Applause]
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[Applause]
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all right all finished for the day just
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riding back
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beside the train tracks towards the car
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park okay quick breakdown of the trails
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nowhere was definitely really cool it's
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a blue trail
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um i liked it it was fun would
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definitely recommend doing it it's great
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intro to rock rolls
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great drops it's uh not too technical
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but it gives you a few options
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for lines if you want to go step it up a
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little bit
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and then cream puff cream trough is just
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such a good trail oh man that's one of
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the best downhills
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for flow i think around just uh
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continuous for probably close to half a
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mile
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it just really sums up i think pemberton
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really well
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so much granite technical riding lots of
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flow lots of
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side drops and stuff like that in
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optional lines so yeah
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if you know cream puff you know and if
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you don't go ride it for sure when you
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get the chance
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all right well that's all from me from
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pemberton for today thanks for joining
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it's been a pleasure and uh lots more to
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come
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while we're out here stuck in whistler
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see you next time
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