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 Is Retallack Lodge BC's next big thing? Yup. |
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| Havoc the house husky. He loves to play and eat live birds. |
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| View out the front door of the lodge. |
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| Trail names that will likely never make it past the drawing board. I was informed by the namer, that they are not in reference to the obvious. Oh-oook. |
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| If you're at Retallack Lodge and this thing gets lit...you're in for it. |
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| Doerfling and Buehler. Lapping up the luxury. |
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| So, what were you guys up to last night? |
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| Overflow barracks for freeriders on the fly. This year was a busy season for Retallack Lodge. It is actually easier to make a list of photographers, filmers, and riders who WEREN'T here this season. |
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| You will see a lot of media come out of here in the next little while. Coastal Crew...working it. |
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| The closest town to Retallack is New Denver. We went to Kaslo. Kaslo is home to the Monster. A bad-ass, iconic Kootenay Mountains trail. It's also part of Retallack's tenure, and on their list of sick spots you can get taken to. |
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| Kaslo's bad-ass too. Check the font used for the fire station sign. Bad-ass. |
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| View of Kootenay Lake from the top of the Monster. |
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| Doerfling. |
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| Buehler. |
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| Connor McCloud and Buehler, inspecting the nugs. |
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| Nug. |
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| Fargin rights buddy! |
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| Nighttime brings games... |
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| ...and hot tubs. |
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| With local older established trails like the Monster, and new trails right out the front door of the lodge, built by some of BC's best trail and bike park builders (Riley Macintosh and Paddy Kaye). This place has the goods. And then there's the future. Mmm... Big Mountain Alpine? Looks like it. |
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| Morning snow...in the summer. |
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| Getting to the goods in the alpine isn't easy. But it's worth it. |
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| Retallack started out as a mining town back in the eighteenth century. And the actuall spot where the lodge is now, was said to be the local brothel. Remnants of mining's past still pepper the area. Old scary-as-shit mine shaft. |
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| More remnants of long forgotten stunts from the Kranked days. |
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| At Retallack the natural beauty seems to just take over everything. |
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| There will be blood. Matt Miles. |
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| Kirt Vories and Garett Buehler...shooting the shit. |
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| The only thing better than sending it all day at Retallack is the staff. Thanks ladies for making our stay so sweet. |
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| The food's not so bad either. |
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| See you at Retallack. Johnny Smoke. |
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Having said that, i love the photo head on of the helmet and goggles, and the photo above it is fantastic, almost looks like an artist's impression.
One thing I´ve always wondered, do photogs ride along with all that gear on their bags?
It isn't easy, but as you can see, it's worth it. Just another one of those unknowns in the world of action sports photography.