{"id":2652,"date":"2020-01-18T19:50:55","date_gmt":"2020-01-18T19:50:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.itsonlyahill.co.uk\/?p=2652"},"modified":"2020-01-18T19:50:55","modified_gmt":"2020-01-18T19:50:55","slug":"the-last-ride","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/itsonlyahill.co.uk\/?p=2652","title":{"rendered":"The Last Ride"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The last riding day in BC dawns cool, bright and sunny, perfect for a morning out on some local trails.  A truck shuttle thanks to D&#8217;Arcy drops us at around 900m overlooking Howe Sound, always a good backdrop to any ride.  At this height cool is now cold but a short pedal up and across has us warming up and at Meadow of the Grizzly, ready to drop in.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.itsonlyahill.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/IMG_3778-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2653\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.itsonlyahill.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/IMG_3779-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2655\"\/><figcaption>Kira Cailes on her big wheeled clowns bike<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.itsonlyahill.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/IMG_3780-1-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2656\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.itsonlyahill.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/IMG_3781-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2657\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Steep, bermed, fast through the trees, we are losing altitude at a rate of knots, dropping out of the trees into some clearcut I am focusing on the trail when a voice behind me shouts look right, I hit the brakes and drink in the view I nearly missed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.itsonlyahill.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/IMG-20190928-WA0019-1024x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2658\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>We drop Pseudo Tsuga again, getting caught up behind a couple of slower riders, we stop to create a gap, have a brief chat and are off again flying out into the car park at the bottom for the short fire road climb to single track up, its a slog but puts us back into Half Nelson then into Another Mans Gold down to the creek and a steep, loose, bouldery climb, the lower section of Powerhouse Plunge and  a promise of steep rolling rocks labs, on &#8211;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Somewhere Over There, the best till last, I&#8217;m not sure but it&#8217;s pretty dam close, making the most of the topography and natural features, awesome.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.itsonlyahill.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/IMG-20190928-WA0012-1-1024x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2660\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.itsonlyahill.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/IMG-20190928-WA0010-1024x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2661\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.itsonlyahill.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/IMG_3785-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2662\"\/><figcaption>Rock slabs dominate a section of the trail&#8230;. all rollable!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>And then, that&#8217;s it, done, another riding trip over, all too soon.  I am lucky to know people who take me to the best trails.  I get to ride stuff without wasting my time navigating or wondering which trail is going to give me the best bang for my buck.  I have only ridden a handful of trails, Squish has much more to offer, more time needed to explore and link trails to ride the ultimate day.  Hopefully I&#8217;ll get to ride here again one day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Big thanks to Len, Chantal, Larissa, Dixon, Kira and D&#8217;Arcy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The last riding day in BC dawns cool, bright and sunny, perfect for a morning out on some local trails. A truck shuttle thanks to D&#8217;Arcy drops us at around 900m overlooking Howe Sound, always a good backdrop to any ride. At this height cool is now cold but a short pedal up and across &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/itsonlyahill.co.uk\/?p=2652\" class=\"more-link\">Read more<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Last Ride&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2652","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mountain-biking"],"featured_media_urls":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/itsonlyahill.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2652","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/itsonlyahill.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/itsonlyahill.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itsonlyahill.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itsonlyahill.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2652"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/itsonlyahill.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2652\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/itsonlyahill.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2652"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itsonlyahill.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2652"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itsonlyahill.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2652"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}