Today I woke up at 510 Cottonwood Ave. in Nelson, BC!! The bed was comfy and larger than we've been used to. Lily was awake early, obviously excited to start yoga teacher training. I slept a little while longer, then got up and had delicious coffee and french toast. We hung out w/ our new roomies Vince and Marie and had good conversation before they went for a morning walk. Lily shuttled me up Giveout Creek FSR to Bedframe. The road was pretty mellow and we were able to make it up 7-8K quick. Lily walked down to the lookout and we hung out for a minute before parting ways. The trail was more techy than I remember and I had to negotiate a number of steep rock moves. It was a super fun trail and I rallied out onto the road and tried to find Pulmonary. Instead I got going down Skier's Right and was wondering when the steep slabs were going to show up. Instead it was fun and flowy w/ a number of transfer moves onto woodwork. I came out at the bottom and luckily ran into a group of 3 riders that were setting a shuttle. Jeff and his buddies were cool and we rode up a gnarly 4x4 road to get to lower Powerslave. It was a super wicked trail that was slightly frosty/snowy but hooked up great. It had a number of steep wooden whoopdies that were pretty tall!! A couple of them were off-camber. We blazed out of that trail and down to Placenta Descenta that passes nearby Blewitt Ski Area. It was fun and had a good number of rock gardens to negotiate. It definitely wasn't as steep as Bedframe!! It came out across from Pulmonary. This time we actually got on the right trail. Momentarily. The sign reads "long L and short R." I'm thinking longer is better and blaze L. Too bad it was a completely different trail!! It traversed back and forth and back and forth......
It was really cool because it milked the hell out of the terrain and was mostly mossy rock slabs (low angle). We came out down the road from the exit of Pulmonary and pedaled back to the bottom truck. I milked another ride up and rode The Gimp for the grand finale. I was riding along thinking how sweet it was, loamy top section through some larger trees, steep but fun, surfy. Then it just turned much more gnarly all of a sudden. I was super stoked to ride it all, minus that one instance where I got flung off the bike. I slammed my R tibial tuberosity and it hurt pretty bad even w/ the pads on!! There were a few logrides that I nailed. Super rad trail overall. Definitely the gnarliest trail I've ridden here so far. I rode back to the house, and Lily and Marie made a super yummy tofu veggie stir-fry w/ quinoa. I think I can get used to this........Except for that R knee pain!!
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