Monday Oct. 19th Lily was gracious enough to play shuttle driver. We rallied up to Giveout Creek FSR then onto Gold Creek FSR and up to Goldmember (I had tried to get up there previously but it was too icy). We bailed on Upper Goldmember and I dropped in. It was a really fun trail, faster than most in Nelson. A few logrides for good measure. I beat Lily back down!! Then Lily decided to bail on the afternoon yoga class (anatomy) and cruise over to the N. Shore w/ me. We stopped at North Shore Naturals shop and bought a couple of turkey paninis that were dank. The woman and her little girl were just chilling out at the shop. Looked like a cozy gig!!
We rallied up Kokanee Glacier Road, then onto Benson Creek FSR and over to Newtsac. Again the yota rallied hard, but I still hiked it up past a good number of menacing waterbars. The trail was fun and not quite as crazy as I remembered it. The top was a little "slidey" and loose w/ a good number of rock slabs to negotiate. There were also a good few sections of woodwork and logrides. All in all a great trail!! Then it was onto Shitaker!! It started off w/ a cool rock roll then into a burnt, hollow 1/2 log that was pretty steep!! A sharp berm was built out of it, then a little transfer jump, berm, stepdown, then hip jump. Lily took a few pics that came out great!! The next move was a stepdown that went under a downed tree, into a nice step-up. I overshot it the first time and landed on the log lining the trail!! I jumped off the bike seamlessly and ran it out!! Great crash when you don't crash!! I went back up and did the whole line again. It had another few rock slabs and some flowy sections before hitting the ending section shared by the other two trails in the area- Nooner and Morning Sickness. It had a super fun logride that went for a ways into a drop then a steepish section into a brapper of a L (uphill). Pretty cool!! Then there was a steep finishing section that I triple dropped and got a little buckwild on (into a prayer of a R corner that I somehow made!!). Lily dropped me back off on Morning Sickness and I rallied the series of sweet, slightly overgrown rock roll features that defined the trail. I really liked the moves and was stoked that I rode it!! It ended on the same lower trail. One more time back up to the top and finished off w/ Nooner which had a bunch of steepies and a few log rides and rock faces. WOW what a day!! As always a delicious dinner back at the Cottonwood Ave residence to cap off the night!!
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