No, this isn’t a post about the one nut to rule them all. It’s about a mountain biking trail near Whistler that Ollie completed last weekend with Hannah and Thom. The route is just under 30km and includes around 1400m of climbing.
The start was particularly challenging, with lots of steep and tight switchbacks. This left us all wondering if we’d bitten off more than we could chew. However, we managed to keep slogging on and with the slope continuing to get slightly shallower with every pedal stroke we managed to make it to the top. We were rewarded for all our hard effort with a wonderful ride through the alpine with amazing views in all directions. Finally, we began the long descent down Lord of the Squirrels which took us back to civilisation and some well earnt beers.
Thom has some drone footage, but it’s still in post production. Therefore, whilst looking for a short clip to show some more of the scenery and route, Ollie stumbled upon the following clip. He was proud of his achievement until he saw someone had done the route 7 times in a row!
We mentioned last week that we were moving apartments, but we will save that for another post. Whilst Ollie was lording it over the squirrels, Rosie spent all of Sunday cleaning the old apartment before we gave the keys back (please note, before any anti Ollie sentiment, that he had spent a day driving multiple trips to move all of our stuff between apartments). This long weekend we are off to Wedgemount Lake for some camping and maybe, if the weather allows, scrambling.
Roaming Rollie 
Wow, that’s impressive, Ollie, and the views look amazing. We’ll done for moving apartments, too. I bet you were both exhausted!
I hope you treated yourself to an ice cream after all that effort; you deserved a double each, I would have thought 😜
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Too soon, it’s still raw
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Maybe more in common with Lord of the Dance, or if it goes bad, Lord of the Flies.
The views are majestic but try not to stick to the “motorways”, zooming through, and not noticing the little things.
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I whole-heartedly agree! Mountain biking is too zoomy, how can you smell the mushrooms and make bird friends at that pace??
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