The Burn - Part 1
 | For a long time I have been looking for a line which mirrored a ski line - steep, fall line, some speed and turns and a mountain bike style 'pillow line' to finish it off. The Burn was both a challenging and rewarding zone, originally we begin riding there for ArtBarn Production's 'You Like This' project. However, due to weather and production timing, I was not able to ride the entire line for 'You Like This'. Working with Bryan and Fitz on The Season 2 gave me the opportunity to complete the line the way I originally intended.- Kevin Landry |
| In the end, that was as excited as I've been for another athlete. I never even brought my bike up there. It was enough to live vicariously.- Fitz Cahall |
I've spent my last decade telling outdoor stories, mostly in the climbing, skiing and environmental realm. When my business partner Bryan Smith and I started 'The Season' podcast three years ago our goal was to do more than just create porn, but tell the stories that define our community. When we heard about Kevin Landry and Jeremy Norris' zone above Britannia beach, it sparked our interest. Why not follow them through the course of the development of The Burn. It worked perfectly for us as story tellers, and to me - I'm not a downhiller - the terrain just looked insane. Visually, the charred trees had this stand out feel. The backdrop was incredible, but mostly I just like the thought process that went into the entire experience. These guys, Kevin and Jeremy, were so caught up in it. It was part artistic zeal, part Frankenstein-creating madness.
Of course, the snow came. The boys festered. I loved that, though. I've climbed seriously for two decades up in the Pacific Northwest - there is such a finite amount of good weather - and the winter just puts the brakes on everything. I empathized with Jeremy and Kevin. To be a climber up here is to learn to fester. Our goals, whether you are a mountain biker, climber, or a skier, might be made or broken by a few days of weather. We started working with Kevin and Jeremy in the summer of 2010, with the idea that we'd have their whole segment finished up by the fall. They thought they would be done with The Burn - it was time to move on. We could all tell, but the whole link up just wasn't quite right. There was one point where Jeremy told me "I really don't want to spend the whole spring thinking about that line." I could tell that he was serious. It was going to consume him.
They came back. We came back. We recruited Matt Maddaloni, aka the Matt Scientist of Sea to Sky Cable Cam, and they spent a second season unlocking the burn.
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I'm working on an update for N Van
I've not gotten around to writing one about Whistler yet
Maybe there's a need to write a summary article about why BC has been so successful in encouraging trail work and I'll put that in my list of things to do
The stuff lee just posted is all legit, 99% of the stuff you see on this board from canada is illegal.
The great thing about it though is that there are literally 10 people or less in BC (due to lack of funding) that are incharge of patrolling our forests and at least a few of them mtn bike themselves so there is a level of understanding.
Most of the local riding communities take it upon themselves to clean up the burned out cars and piles of garbage that get dumped in our riding areas as well.
It's all about giving back to the forest you take from.
My friends would always head to the hills around winter to start prepping lines and building stunt. No one cared, no one ever questioned anyone. . . . if anything, other builders would be out and help each other.
Not once did I ever see someone from parks, police or any other governing bodies come and say 'no, you cant do that'
Unlike here in Australia, you build anything and it gets torn right down because it's "unsafe". Then they build bike parks that are fully focused on XC
It's hard, but thats just the way it is
I bet he can`t ever ride on the pavement and has a MONSTER tiny cock, tiny cock, ooo tiny tiny cock.
I couldn`t think of anything that could set his frustration soo skyhigh.