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Netguy
05-12-2006, 04:27 PM
Hiked up last night. No snow on the trail. The jump at the top is about 3 times bigger...its awesome. No braking bumps....lots of fresh dirt. All lips re-shaped, and bigger berms in places. The tranny to the rock drop has been shaped, and is smooth now. Lots of new dirt, which will take a good part of saturday to be ridden in. For the most part it was either super tacky, or dry. The only muddy spot was at the DirtMerchant/Aline junction.
Peeked over at Angry Pirate, and it still had a ton of snow on the trail, and crabapple still needs a little work, however no snow in sight.
decent Ash. im soo ready to get up their!!Hopefully everything will stay good for a month :)
Netguy
05-12-2006, 05:51 PM
no photos?
I took my digicam up with me, but couldnt seem to muster up the will power to stop, after I started going down.
GrapeApe79
05-12-2006, 08:45 PM
Thanks for the update! Will be up there next weekend. Very excited, but have never been up there w/o the upper mountain running. I'll be taking my skis just in case! :)
stormin'norman
05-12-2006, 08:47 PM
I'll see you in one week :blah:
bikerpunk98199
05-12-2006, 09:15 PM
ill be up there for memorial day!!!
GmotoT
05-12-2006, 11:07 PM
Im going tomorrow.:)
Roasted
05-13-2006, 11:55 AM
I will wait till some of the other trails are open...I am not the biggest fan of a-line and JUST riding a-line wouldn't give me my cheap thrills :)
jake133
05-13-2006, 01:10 PM
Lucky! Sounds like a lot of fun.
ffonsok
05-13-2006, 04:57 PM
im going up memorial day
how can you not be a fan of A-line?!
check your pulse buddy ;)
trailhacker
05-13-2006, 09:18 PM
I will wait till some of the other trails are open...I am not the biggest fan of a-line and JUST riding a-line wouldn't give me my cheap thrills :)
We are supposed to head up tomorrow. How many of the lower trails are open?
If its only A-line, Dirt Merchant, etc, I'll pass until more trails are open. I can go to SST for jumps.
carbuncle
05-13-2006, 10:10 PM
I'll be heading up July 7 for a couple of days, should be all open and nicely packed by then!
bent^biker
05-13-2006, 10:56 PM
when are they planning to have Garbonzo open?
Netguy
05-13-2006, 11:07 PM
We are supposed to head up tomorrow. How many of the lower trails are open?
If its only A-line, Dirt Merchant, etc, I'll pass until more trails are open. I can go to SST for jumps.
As far as I can remember, A-line, DirtMerchant, Schleyer, B-line, HoChiMin
Netguy
05-13-2006, 11:08 PM
when are they planning to have Garbonzo open?
No word yet. Too much snow to tell. It is going to be very warm in the alpine for the next week. Lots of snow should melt.
bikerpunk98199
05-14-2006, 01:04 AM
No word yet. Too much snow to tell. It is going to be very warm in the alpine for the next week. Lots of snow should melt.
word. garbanzo wont open for a long time... or mabey global worming could help :rofl:
jodysbike
05-14-2006, 01:07 AM
Angry Pirate
Last year one day my budie Tino and I were one of the last ones off the mountain at close time. Well they grabed us to help with the sweep. They hand out these little cards with some trail combos on em and you have to follow those combos down to look for lost, broke down or hurt riders before close. Anyway we get to the top and they are handing out the cards and the dude goes. "Who wants Angrey Pirate?"
In unison all 15 or so of us go AAAAAAAARRRRR Matie!" If was freaking funny. It was followed with an intermediate trail my ass conversation about the trail rating. :)
carbuncle
05-14-2006, 07:55 PM
That trail made my wife cry last summer. I felt bad for her, because she felt like she was holding me up. For my part, I wasn't bummed. This summer we're renting her a real DH rig up there, and I'll start her on B-line and Crank It Up if she feels like she wants to hit the blue trails.
cove rider
05-14-2006, 11:37 PM
Last year one day my budie Tino and I were one of the last ones off the mountain at close time. Well they grabed us to help with the sweep. They hand out these little cards with some trail combos on em and you have to follow those combos down to look for lost, broke down or hurt riders before close. Anyway we get to the top and they are handing out the cards and the dude goes. "Who wants Angrey Pirate?"
In unison all 15 or so of us go AAAAAAAARRRRR Matie!" If was freaking funny. It was followed with an intermediate trail my ass conversation about the trail rating. :)
I didnt know that they had people help with the sweep on the last run down, ive always thought it was the mountain saftey peeps and thats it
Whistler in May = Mud:(
whistler in may = the ****, (for the moment at least) its hot, dry, the trails are in good knick and its quiet too:)
crab apple hits opened today too which was nice.
cove rider
05-15-2006, 08:07 AM
crab apple hits opened today too which was nice.
Cool Beans!
Roasted
05-15-2006, 09:51 AM
That trail made my wife cry last summer. I felt bad for her, because she felt like she was holding me up. For my part, I wasn't bummed. This summer we're renting her a real DH rig up there, and I'll start her on B-line and Crank It Up if she feels like she wants to hit the blue trails.
A good one to get her used to that style is golden triangle to lower duff (which used to be part of golden triangle) and ho chi min. Those are good progressors to angry pirate if thats where you eventually wanna drag her :)
Heart of darkness is another one but from what I hear they have butchered it in the way to making the trail harder.
Roasted
05-15-2006, 10:04 AM
Actually I am not sure what they did to it. But it was great for my gf. A good transition trail to the other harder ones. I have just been reading on nsmb what has been done. I will get a better idea in a few days.
I am just bitter they did the same to the dj park imo. Whistler mountain is beginning to cator to the intermediate and advanced and less the the transitioning riders in between. I have spent a lot of time trying to get my gf to progress to the harder blues and heart of darkness was one of the best trails for it.
vibiker
05-15-2006, 10:24 AM
It was followed with an intermediate trail my ass conversation about the trail rating. :)
Late last season, they bumped up AP to a Black Diamond.
vibiker
05-15-2006, 10:25 AM
I didnt know that they had people help with the sweep on the last run down, ive always thought it was the mountain saftey peeps and thats it
A few minutes before the lifts close, there is a bike patrol person at the bottom trying to recruit sweepers. Always a cool thing to do.
trailhacker
05-15-2006, 11:01 AM
whistler in may = the ****, (for the moment at least) its hot, dry, the trails are in good knick and its quiet too:)
Yes, it was hot and dry unless you were on a trail that had snow-melt running off into it.
We didn't hit A-line (yawn) but for the few trails that were open, every one we hit was wet to some degree.
It looks like they built up A-line from what you can see from the lift. When you come out of the berm under the lift (right before you get off) there is a small step-down and then the first table is much bigger.
I have just been reading on nsmb what has been done. I will get a better idea in a few days.
When you cross under the lift and then go into the trees you come up to a water tower(?). The trail really starts there. There is a new table with two different lips. After that you go down a hill to another big tabletop. Go around a fresh berm (it will be next year until it shapes up good) off a sort of step-down, another walled/bermed corner then a step-up. The step-up is weird as it doesn't really have a lip, the ground just sort of stops? It is pretty much the same after that.
Whistler mountain is beginning to cator to the intermediate and advanced and less the the transitioning riders in between. I have spent a lot of time trying to get my gf to progress to the harder blues and heart of darkness was one of the best trails for it.
I agree with what you say about some of the changes. My GF isn't a big jumper (yet) and HoD was our finish trail of chioce. Now it seems like there is going to be a bunch of traffic on the trail?
It seems like there is some A-line'y aspect to every new advanced trail. I don't want to say they ruined hornet last year, but I would have prefered they continued A-line on its own trail?
I prefer the natural rocky, rooty, twisty, technical single track and hope they are able to do more of that type stuff on the top.
cordlikesbikes
05-15-2006, 11:23 AM
does anyone know why they changed national to "detroit rock city?" either way it was prime. someone said they opened crabapple on sunday? i left at like 2:30 and it was closed =/ bummer b/c i was getting stoked up for that the whole ride there! any word on when dirty merchant will be up?
vibiker
05-15-2006, 11:33 AM
does anyone know why they changed national to "detroit rock city?"
Probably to avoid confusion with Whister DH. In my book, it will alway be National DH.
...... and they are handing out the cards and the dude goes. "Who wants Angrey Pirate?"
Go to the urban dictionary and look up angry pirate... then the next time they call out to see who wants it, you might not be so quick to say aye....
cove rider
05-15-2006, 03:31 PM
A few minutes before the lifts close, there is a bike patrol person at the bottom trying to recruit sweepers. Always a cool thing to do.
Sweet! I will have to try and do that next time that would be fun!:)
freeridekid
05-15-2006, 11:15 PM
the problem with sweeping is that you know its ur last run of the day, and we all know what happens when you say this is your last run . . .
cove rider
05-15-2006, 11:41 PM
the problem with sweeping is that you know its ur last run of the day, and we all know what happens when you say this is your last run . . .
hahaha carnage:ouch:
vibiker
05-15-2006, 11:45 PM
hahaha carnage:ouch:
Nah, as long as you remember that it will be a LONG time before they realize that you aren't coming down. They will have to start the lifts and come look for you. Incentive enough to keep it under control.:mumble:
GrapeApe79
05-16-2006, 12:14 AM
Last year one day my budie Tino and I were one of the last ones off the mountain at close time. Well they grabed us to help with the sweep. They hand out these little cards with some trail combos on em and you have to follow those combos down to look for lost, broke down or hurt riders before close. Anyway we get to the top and they are handing out the cards and the dude goes. "Who wants Angrey Pirate?"
In unison all 15 or so of us go AAAAAAAARRRRR Matie!" If was freaking funny. It was followed with an intermediate trail my ass conversation about the trail rating. :)
That made me laugh! I swear, Angry Pirate should be a diamond. That was the first trail I ever did at Whistler, and I was thinking to myself "if this is a blue, what in the world will a black diamond be like". Luckily, I quickly realized that most of the diamonds were not much more difficult at all than Angry Pirate! Great trail though!!
cove rider
05-16-2006, 12:16 AM
Nah, as long as you remember that it will be a LONG time before they realize that you aren't coming down. They will have to start the lifts and come look for you. Incentive enough to keep it under control.:mumble:
Ya like the next day:( Ya that is pretty good incentive to keep it under control and not push the limits plus yer suppose to be looking for people anyways so probably flying down the mountain wouldnt really be helpful
HenryTheHammer
05-16-2006, 12:51 PM
That made me laugh! I swear, Angry Pirate should be a diamond. That was the first trail I ever did at Whistler, and I was thinking to myself "if this is a blue, what in the world will a black diamond be like". Luckily, I quickly realized that most of the diamonds were not much more difficult at all than Angry Pirate! Great trail though!!
Ha, did the same thing. I like your avatar BTW.
I'll be heading up for a long memorial day weekend to!
GrapeApe79
05-17-2006, 02:01 PM
Ha, did the same thing. I like your avatar BTW.
I'll be heading up for a long memorial day weekend to!
Thanks, gotta love those snorty, grunty pugs!
cove rider
05-17-2006, 03:22 PM
Thanks, gotta love those snorty, grunty pugs!
Pugs are such funny little dogs!
freeridekid
05-17-2006, 07:16 PM
is angry pirate the one where you cross the road heading left and into the huge step-up into the woods? it seems like i remember going down it during a no joke run
Kanter
05-17-2006, 07:52 PM
Angry Pivate is a super easy trail. My wife loves that trail. Im going to get her down Goats Gully this year.
vibiker
05-17-2006, 10:46 PM
is angry pirate the one where you cross the road heading left and into the huge step-up into the woods? it seems like i remember going down it during a no joke run
There is something like that on NJ.
Upper AP is just to the right as you get off the lower chair lift. No step-ups there. It starts off in an open field, with a 30' or so long low-to-the-ground, skinny.
fuzzycatnuts
05-18-2006, 02:49 AM
one time my sweep was b-line to heart of atlantis to easy does it to rutabega, or somthing like that, it was pretty fun actully, took awhile to get down the hill that way. I dont think they always need people for the sweep, only on slower days right? On busy days they have enough employes to cover all the sweeps.
Snacks
05-18-2006, 09:04 AM
one time my sweep was b-line to heart of atlantis to easy does it to rutabega, or somthing like that, it was pretty fun actully, took awhile to get down the hill that way. I dont think they always need people for the sweep, only on slower days right? On busy days they have enough employes to cover all the sweeps.
I thought sweeps weren't really a big deal until I crash and broke my arm on a Monday about 15 before closing time:mad: The mt. patrol was great, but they did need help tobogganing me down the hill.
vibiker
05-18-2006, 10:25 AM
I dont think they always need people for the sweep, only on slower days right? On busy days they have enough employes to cover all the sweeps.
Not true.
I try to sweep every time I am up there. One more chance for a last run. In my couple of dozen times I have done it, I usually see only one Bike Patrol person at the top. Very seldom are there two. Most all the sweepers are usually the paying customers.:weee:
Kanter
05-19-2006, 07:46 PM
I love doin the sweep. You hardly ever see anyone. The best ride of my life was a sweep up Garbonzo. It was a few years ago and Garbonzo was super rough with a ton of cut tree stubs. It was probably the roughest trail I have ever ridden. I think there was only one trail down from Garbonzo at the time. We rode with Richie S. and his buddies.
Upper angry pirate opened today, dry as! [:D]
Str8OutaBallard
05-20-2006, 12:34 AM
Upper angry pirate opened today, dry as! [:D]
I don't think I've ever rode that trail when it hasn't been a series of mudd puttles and rutts...
Kanter
05-20-2006, 02:55 PM
I never really liked Angry Pirate. I guess Ill have to give it another shot this year.
Roasted
05-21-2006, 11:52 AM
is angry pirate the one where you cross the road heading left and into the huge step-up into the woods? it seems like i remember going down it during a no joke run
Its on the lower part of the mountain. As you cross the bridge right off the lift you hang a right and ride through some mud (or on a skinny) and dive in the woods for some switchback fun
cove rider
05-21-2006, 07:59 PM
Hey so whats the projected date for opening garbanzo? Did lots of snow melt last week?
Roasted
05-22-2006, 01:10 PM
Hey so whats the projected date for opening garbanzo? Did lots of snow melt last week?
I just had a girlfriend skiing 2 days ago...
The big melt is slow...
cove rider
05-22-2006, 03:33 PM
I just had a girlfriend skiing 2 days ago...
The big melt is slow...
Hmmm okay i guess i will push my hopeful date of riding there back about a month then
ill be there in a month to rip it up!
cove rider
05-22-2006, 10:26 PM
ill be there in a month to rip it up!
I will probably be there in like 2 months just to be sure i get my moneys worth with everything being open by then hopefully:)
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