Cascade Environmental is a company that has been hired by the City of Kelowna to help formulate the trails strategy for the region. In my capacity with the MTBco (the new central Okanagan bike association), I took them out for a little familiarization ride today.



We just had time for a single lap up on Gillard, but that's good enough for one day. Still a small amount of snow up top, but it's no big deal. Plus, I got to ride a trail I've never seen before. This would be "Ghost Rider".

Say hello to my little friend...





I dropped more than a few pounds this year on the build.

For those of you who like the geekier aspects of custom bike builds, here's the list:

Frame	Knolly Delerium T
Fork	Totem
HS	FSA
Stem	Chromag
bar	Chromag
grips	Oury
saddle	Chromag
post	Roox
qr	Chromag
cranks	XT 170mm 36/24
bb	XT
pedals	NRG paperbag
brakes	Avid Juicy Carbon
shifters	XO
fr der	LX
r der	XO
chain	SRAM
cassette	SRAM 11-34
wheels	Crossmax SX
tires	Maxxis Hi-Roller 2.5 UST

Last day in the Puddle, and it's not warmingup. On the contrary, we're breaking temperature records that date back to 1955. Minus 8? Are you kidding me? Anyway, that was overnight. It's much warmer out now, but still freezing. We chose to get the first lap of Prime and Endless on Desous today.



This is the new line off the back side that Shreddie cut last year. I wonder what it's like when it's dry? so far I've only seen it either soaking wet or frozen.



It really is steeper than it looks.





There, that's more like it. He's new to the sport, poor guy.



Shreddie, ass out.



It was anice way to spend the day, but it was just too cold. Check out the deck at Mark's....


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