Video: Course Preview with Magnus Manson - 2019 Canadian National DH Championship
Course Preview: 2019 Canadian National DH Championship, Panorama, BC
It is just days until Panorama hosts the inaugural Gravity Festival.
For the first time in Canadian mountain bike history two national titles in DH and Enduro will be contested on the same weekend at the same resort. We were fortunate to have current Canadian National DH Champ, Magnus Manson, join trail crew member Jeremy McDowell for our POV course preview.
The track has seen some major changes from last season including new sections like Wall Street and Loggarythm, as well as, countless upgrades and refinements to jumps, berms, and sightlines. All modifications are now national champ approved.
Sit back and let Magnus and Jeremy take you through the track.
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I hope the T Bar is ready for the party that is coming their way!!
Ted,
I have no doubts that you'll provide an exceptions race experience for everyone involved as you always do. Aside from congestion my only real gripe is the shifting of the Enduro to Saturday. While I can appreciate the steps you've taken to lessen the cost of race entry, anyone who works on Friday is now obligated to either miss work without pay or use a vacation day should they be lucky enough to have one. There's also the changing of the reg cut off to being sometime Thursday prior to Fridays practice (unless there's still onsite reg mentioned that I missed because I don't always read things).
Don't get me wrong I love riding at your events and Panorama is my favorite bike park around but unfortunately I'll be sitting this one out. I hope it goes better than I could imagine and maybe I'll see you next year for Gravity fest v2.0.
Kenny and Eric - C'mon guys, where's the love! It takes an extraorinary amount of time, energy and money to execute the events. We've partnered up to help reduce the costs for the racers, pull the community together and bring an amazing festival together! We just returned from hosting Sea Otter Canada and we ran 6 events in 3 days and there was no complaints from the riders about scheduling, communication or a lack of fun!
Kenny Larkin, you've been a long time supporter of the Enduro series - you know the high level of organization we bring to the table and partnering with Pano for the DH just means that this carries over! There is nothing "retarded" about it - its simple really. More people, more bikes, more fun! The enduro course does not overlap the DH and we only use one bike park stage so the impact to the lift is nothing. Gimme a call if you have actual concerns and considerations. Trust me, we've got a solid plan!
If you guys are struggling to navigate the scene, gimme a call. I appreciate the feedback but lets be supportive first and work together make these events better.
- Ted Morton
Thanks for the feedback I think you'll be stoked on this weekend!
Hey guys, Triptex and Kingfish are spot on here.
The park and infrastructure here can not and will not handle this amount of people. Last year's DH race alone was officially the busiest day in Pano's summer history by a large margin - the queue for the Mile 1 stretched literally beyond sight, and now you've essentially doubled the amount of people in the resort.
I'm glad you've thought about how to 'save money' for the riders and likely make more money for yourselves, but have you thought about the staff at Panorama?
Some of the lifty's are working 10-11 hours shifts this weekend, whereas the housekeepers and inventory team have been working absolutely flat out for the last couple of days to accommodate the mass arrivals, all with no overtime. Nobody really seems to care about that.
'More people, more bikes, more fun'.... that may be true, but to a certain extent, I'm quite sure it will not ring true this weekend