The fun is in the canyon - Pics from Monday

[PhantomCat]

Wicked pics forthmeal!! Please do tell on the "Where's The Kill Switch" pic

 

[sledneck434]

awesome pics!!!

 

[fourthmeal]

Having a trail broken for us by people walking was tough to swallow. But I'd bet my house we worked harder and sweat more getting there.

 

[fourthmeal]

Devin Hess weedwhacking with the Suzuki 800.

 

[fourthmeal]

David missed a gate.

 

[fourthmeal]

The scenic route above the creek. The left ski didn't touch snow for an hour.

 

[messickzr]

Great technical riding! It looks to me like every ounce of sweat was worth it!

 

[TheBreeze]

Awesome riding and pics!!

 

[snengineer]

Having a trail broken for us by people walking was tough to swallow. But I'd bet my house we worked harder and sweat more getting there.

Now that is what I call a RIDE!......AWESOME!!

Your pictures and trip reports are one of a kind, thanks for posting them for us to enjoy. Great job in breaking trail up that nasty/awesome drainage. Awesome to have good enough snow depths down low to take adventures like this.

We recently had a similar experience exploring a new access to some great riding, following the skin tracks was humbling..but convenient. I am pretty sure backcountry sledding is as intense a workout as you can get winter recreating.

 

[fourthmeal]

Wicked pics forthmeal!! Please do tell on the "Where's The Kill Switch" pic

So it was kind of my fault for telling him it looked doable from down where I was standing. He wanted to creep over the edge and slide the sled down on its side and cut it to the bottom left of the image. But the track started trenching at the top so he wound up carrying more speed than he wanted coming over the edge.

At this point gravity overcame what hold the sled had on the hillside (which was actually near vertical for the top 15 feet) and the HCR turned into a $12,000 toboggan.

McClure did a great job of riding it out anyway. These pro hillclimbers have the mentality that things haven't really gone bad until you're lying in a hospital bed (later, he jumped a boulder and bent the handlebars from landing so hard).

And thanks to EFI, the sled put on a few tenths of a mile while he dug out the kill switch.

One of the most entertaining guys I've ever ridden with. Never just rolling down the middle of the canyon, always racing back and forth across the creek, hitting everything pinned.

 

[fourthmeal]

Another example of the mentality thing.

 

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[Dabull]

awsome,nothing better then riding canyons.

 

[BossRev]

Freakin Awesome as Always 4thmeal.

 

[colorado_matt]

Great write up and excellent pictures! Thank you for sharing Ryan.

 

[skibreeze]

AWESOME pics! Love the ones trying to pull the sidehill drop.

 

[CoyoteGirl]

I WANNA GO THERE! Holy heck that looks like fun!!

And FABULOUS PICTURES!!! I don't know whether to hate you... or beg for more!

Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm MORE PLEASE!

 

[The Fig]

Awesome pics...magazine quality!

 

[fourthmeal]

Amazing pics. What settings would you recomend I start with? I will be using a Canon G10 (I don't want to bring my D300 yet).

Not sure on the G10. Just not a lot of user control. But once you get your D300 out there, you'll see a big difference. What lens is on the D300?