Video: Sending it in the Sierras
Brian Cahal might be a new name for you, but he knows a thing or two about scoping out shady gaps in the bike park and hitting them with style, "riding in the bike park (Northstar, Tahoe) started off mellow" says Brian. "Lots of laps with the boys, finding alternate lines here and there and scoping out hucks to send. As the year progressed I found myself racing a lot more and as the end of the season approached, I still hadn't done a lot of the moves I wanted back in the park...
The closing weekend soon came around and it was my last chance before the lifts closed - not trying these out was not an option and I knew they would haunt me during the off-season if I didn't. I wrote down a list and on the closing weekend, with film maker Drew Boxold in tow, we set out to cross as many as I could, off the 'send it' list. Some worked and some didn't..."
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1. Those hucks he did are way gnarlier than anything ever...you have to scope them to understand
2. He flew through those rocks.
"Notice that Font, on that first day of European awareness of California's biggest mountains, got something very basic right. He grasped on that long ago day that California's Sierra Nevada was a single, continuous entity. This is why he called it the Sierra Nevada. If he had thought of it a complex of mountain ranges, he could have used the plural form: las sierras nevadas. But he didn't."
I know, I suck.
I'm done