Photo Recap - Bearclaw Invitational Practice

 Yeah this event still feels (looks) rather like a jam than a competition, wich is awesome!!

 The Claw is life, The Claw is love.

 The claw is the law.

 The Claw is our master. The Claw decides who will go and who will stay!

 They spend money on people who spend money on them

 So basically, they are a bunch of cunts

 They really missed it. In a sport that's growing all the time they chose to give up on it. I echo your sentiment in hoping someone who gets it buys the mountain. That being said, it was a wicked comp. Wish I would've gotten the bail out on the step up on video. Hopefully someone did. Rider on the step with no bike, nice!

 BurkeW, here is some business 101 for you. Lift excess Bike Parks loose money, they only operate because of revenues from their winter seasons.Whistler is the only park that could survive on its own. Washington has had some shit seasons because of snow and had to make some hard decisions. If they kept the Bike park there would be no more Mt Washington, period. Its a Business! if the money out doesnt equal the money in, then changes need to be made, or the business will fail. i was as disapointed as you were when they closed the Park, but i understand the reasons. The Bike Park wasnt the only aspect of the Mountian that suffered.

 I agree with you, but like any other business it needs to be promoted. Most people I talk to around the Comox Valley had no clue you used to be able to go and ride lift access trails on Mt. Wash. And not once did I ever see/hear of any promotion trying to get more people to come check out the bike park! Sure they had the learn to ride week, but the only place that was advertised was Pinkbike, and most people on Pinkbike know (at least somewhat) how to ride. So sure it didn't make sense to run it as a business, but that is only thanks to years of mismanagement and trail neglect. So I hope they have another shitty snow year this season, and start looking into how to make a bike park a profitable venture!

 Fair comments, i cant comment on their shitty marketing and promotion but if it was non-existent, then they will defiantly fail! i knew some of their trail builders and they didn't even own Mountain bikes?????
its funny that Panarama has a shitty snow year almost every year and they seem to make a good go of it!

 Highland Mountain Bike Park is 100% biking, no other sports. They can survive because the place freakin rules.

 its a bummer, I really enjoyed riding at Mt. Washington sketchiness and no lines.

 heard that sun peaks bought Mt Washington..?

 panorama is close to calgary and, while it competes with fernie and kicking horse for calgarians, it still has a big centre to draw people from. Mt. Wash has islanders to draw in obviously, but that's not a lot of people. They need to get folks from vancouver over there but how do you compete with whistler? Not only is it the sickest bike park around but it's closer! The same could be said for winter time, but maybe there's more skiers than DH bikers on the island?

 Mt Prevost/Tzuhalem/Cumberland go to those places on the island and tell me there is no riders. There are riders lots and lots and even more coming up. Two of the biggest names in riding live and ride on the island. The Claw and Steve Smith, not to mention the up and comers which are many Tennant, Stirling, Remi, just to name a few. All I've ever said regarding the closure is they could have TRIED. This is the age of marketing there are numerous free ways to get people in the know. They could have gotten some statistics easily from a site like PB with a questionnaire "How many people plan to make the trip/buy seasons passes." They still have a chair going for tourists who want to hike around the top of the MT. So hikers get a chair to go hike that seems stupid. They barely get anything per person but some how they make it work... Biking tickets gotta make more... Anywho the vids and pics look great from the event. Done ranting about it haha.

 Exactly. There is already not enough DH on vancouver island (the island cup DH series has been dying off for years) and with the closure of our only lift access bike park, I think it won't even occur to lots of Van Isle locals to give DH a try. And @bakenbikin. The main thing that keeps people on Vancouver Island from riding whistler is the ferry! Sure its not a very long drive, but when the ferry ride is $100+ each way, it gets real pricey real quick. And I truly believe if the marketed themselves correctly, Mt Washington could find enough riders on Vancouver Island to make a bike park work!

 The way he slays slope courses is well evil.

 nope

 wwhhyyy

 Genovese I think

 ah yes

 paul genovese , coolest guy to talk to around , super chill and super styleyyyyy

 He got injured

 Bummer, hope he's back killin it soon.

 when was he injured seen a vid of him getting sideways on dirt merchant at crankworks

 At joyride practice