Whistler Off Road Cycling Association - Mountain Biking

  A great sprint to the finish We’ve been graced with outstanding weather for November trailwork this year! The bonus opportunity moved our Lord Of The Squirrels buffing to the exit of LESS. We focused on the short climbs that for some people had become the cruxes of the trail. Roots are armoured and capped, […]

  Golden Gate analogy “They” say that it takes 7 years to paint the Golden Gate bridge. Starting in San-Francisco, by the time the crews reach the Marin headlands, it’s time to start again.That’s not really how it works: the crews do a lot of back and forth with touch-ups and other repairs. The trail […]

Piece of Cake complete! The community has been blessed with some foul weather that pushed the trail crew back down to Lower Sproatt… to finish the bigger Piece of Cake. As the snowline crept down, we stacked rocks and moved countless buckets (of mud) in the cold driving rain. We kept the big finish quiet […]

Thankful for Gore-Tex! The seasons have changed rather dramatically! After a cold shock, the rains (and snow) have started. Sproatt alpine trails are closed for the season, so we seized the opportunity for some Lord of the Squirrels maintenance. The trail has gone through some rough weather: crazy dry seasons that turned its smooth gold […]

Almost a Piece of Cake… We finished our season of Tuesday Dig Nights in style: smokies by a smokey fire and black forest cake in the black of night. Of course there was some dirt diggin’ done before the chilly chillin’. Santa Cruz Bikes sponsored a heated final party for 34 folks who braved the […]

High side refresh We can really get a lot done when we focus on one project for the entire week: All it took was a couple of Tuesday Dig Nights and an IMBA canada trail building seminar to re-route 2 steep, chunky sections on the High Side Trail.  I must admit that the Cheakamus zone […]

Black Muck (Really) wet season is upon us and the daytime highs aren’t helping anything to dry. Clogged drains are making puddles and organic matter is getting pounded into black muck. This was a prominent problem on the Far Out trail. We tackled muck so thick that shovels were needed to scrape the sloppy mess. […]

A River Runs Through It upgrades I went for an inspection/planning walk with the RMOW trails leads to discuss substantial renovation plans. On top of completing the Bart’s Dark flow line, the “main” section of ARRTI, which periodically floods out the trail, will be getting some much needed upgrades and a re-route to higher ground. […]

Overheard: “What are you guys doing?” asked the panting teen as he walked his bike up the Lower Sproatt road. “We’re extending the Piece of Cake climbing trail!” “Why?” … roughly 15 years after the short but awesome “Piece of cake” and “A la Mode” trails were built, the vision to connect them is finally […]

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