Park Report: May 26, 2010
Hey riders, here is a midweek update on what has been going on since the long weekend. We are now 100% open in the Fitz Zone (if you don't count the Boneyard that is). Cowan finished the GS / Double Vision track and we opened it on Monday. It is getting nicely ridden in and with a few tweaks will be a fantastic track to ride and even better to race!
This weekend brings with it the first ever Fluidride Cup series race to be held at the Whistler Mountain Bike Park. There will be two separate race courses for the Ams and Pros both of which will finish on the flats at the top of the Boneyard. The Am Track looks like this: Upper Angry Pirate to Crabapple Turns to World Cup Singletrack to Ho Chi Min to Longhorn to finish line. This is a good combination of technical intensity with some loose flow to make up time, I think the racers will like it. The Pro course is savage- Schleyer to Detroit Rock City to Lower National DH to Joyride Exit to sprint across summer road and finish line. This line is grueling with a rocky horror pitch or so and some rooty technical gnar for good measure.
For the rest of the Park riders, these two courses will be open to ride on Friday and Saturday with some closed course training happening on Saturday afternoon and racing happening on alternate courses on Sunday. What that means is that they won't be exclusively closed for racing for that much time out of the weekend so everyone can sneak in some laps.
On the lift front, we will be running both the Fitz Chair and the Whistler Village Gondola this weekend so lineups won't be too long. With our maximum lower mountain lift capacity cranking and all the trail offerings it will be a whole lot more like June riding while we are still putting May to bed.
_B-ri.
This weekend brings with it the first ever Fluidride Cup series race to be held at the Whistler Mountain Bike Park. There will be two separate race courses for the Ams and Pros both of which will finish on the flats at the top of the Boneyard. The Am Track looks like this: Upper Angry Pirate to Crabapple Turns to World Cup Singletrack to Ho Chi Min to Longhorn to finish line. This is a good combination of technical intensity with some loose flow to make up time, I think the racers will like it. The Pro course is savage- Schleyer to Detroit Rock City to Lower National DH to Joyride Exit to sprint across summer road and finish line. This line is grueling with a rocky horror pitch or so and some rooty technical gnar for good measure.
For the rest of the Park riders, these two courses will be open to ride on Friday and Saturday with some closed course training happening on Saturday afternoon and racing happening on alternate courses on Sunday. What that means is that they won't be exclusively closed for racing for that much time out of the weekend so everyone can sneak in some laps.
On the lift front, we will be running both the Fitz Chair and the Whistler Village Gondola this weekend so lineups won't be too long. With our maximum lower mountain lift capacity cranking and all the trail offerings it will be a whole lot more like June riding while we are still putting May to bed.
_B-ri.
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