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So sick buddy….your still killin it !!!!!

Awesome lol

Awesome!!!!

I cant wait to try this out tomorrow morning

Sick shot…looks fun

> holy fuck

^^^^^^^^^^^^^I second that!!!!

Sweet pic!!!!!!!

Thats a sweet shot!!

Pimp Daddy

Sweet building

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dajrD28nlKw[HTML_REMOVED]feature=player_embedded

Do you remember making mud pies as a kid? Sitting with your little sister and having tea? There was that fine line between too much water in the pie and not enough. The same holds true with mountain bike trails. If we have just the right moisture content the trails hold together, staying nice and tacky, negating brake bumps and keeping the berms good and steep. Without that moisture they crumble just like your sister's dirt pies.

The first two weekends saw that moisture in the soil and gave all the riders the perfect opening runs! The park is running great and we had a day of good rain again this week. With any luck this heat wave approaching won’t take all the moisture out of the trails. I know today they are looking amazing and I can’t wait for the lift to start turning full time tomorrow!

The crew is frantically working on the new and improved pump track beside the main parking lot. We are going to push to have it ready for the weekend but it is going to be close. If not completed for Saturday - watch for it early next week. Along with the pump track, we are adding in a series of small, medium and large dirt jumps. They will start to appear along the sides of the pump track this summer.

The third and final stage of Jedi Mind Trick is coming along. The first series of jumps are almost complete and will be ready to open by July 1st (moisture permitting). This third phase is built in sections so they will be opened as we build them over the summer. Keep your eye on the board at the bottom of the lift because as soon as it is ready we will be dropping the gates.

See you in the lift line this weekend!

Later,

Cam

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cq-ZcFACXXc

It has been a bit since my last update and I must apologize. I have been out on the mountain with the crew smashing out as much trail as possible before our early opening. That’s right! If you have not heard Silver Star Bike Park has added an extra weekend to the calendar, June 13th and 14th! This is on top of our June 20th and 21st weekend. After that we will be open every day starting Thursday June 25th and with extended play the lifts will be turning every Wednesday and Friday until 7pm.

Things to keep in mind for that first bonus bonus weekend are - we will be running the 5K Foam Fest adventure run so the village will be VERY busy (roughly 5000 participants). And parking will be crazy, too. The group putting on the 5K will be charging for event participant parking but NOT bike park traffic parking. Unfortunately there won't be any camping available that weekend due to lack of space. However, there will be beer gardens in the village, live music and some fun parties going on!

With this hot spring it has allowed us to push for the extra weekend, contrary to what I said in my March 19th update. Added bonus for all you season pass holders, this gives us 2 extras days to ride this season and we all know how good the trails are early season! With the trail crew walking every trail with rakes pulling off all the winter debris, shovels filling those holes that show up at the end of the season and Pulaski’s busting out those few break bumps. The trails are looking top notch. We even pulled in the cavalry this week to get us ahead. Nine of the patrol team had rakes in their hands getting everything ready for you! The logistics of getting a 20+ team around the mountain has proven challenging but well worth it!

If you are sitting on the fence about getting your season pass and the extra weekend was not enough you push you over, here is what is happening this summer and there is a lot!

Jedi Mind Trick is getting the dots connected! As soon as we have the park ready to open the machines will be breaking ground!

Walk the Line will be completed later in the summer for all the high end riders! Get your jump on!

The 10-man trail crew will be dedicated to keeping the Bike Park in pristine condition! Along with making little tweaks here and there to the trails we all love, the maintenance will keep going - allowing the trails to stay smooth [HTML_REMOVED] buttery.

All the new XC trails will be in prime form after a winter of snow pushing down on them! If you did not get a chance to visit this new addition to the Park last year, there is 35 km of new trail to explore this summer!

5 km of Beowulf will be open for a tease of this 35+ km epic that we are building! Now remember that 5 km is only Beowulf, add on another 5 km getting to the trail head over Silver Shack, which was running great last summer! We will be pushing more of this epic in all summer, right until the snow starts falling again in the late fall. When finished we will have over 75 km of XC trails, on top of our already 50+ km of dedicated DH trails in the Park.

This is going to be a very busy summer at the Bike Park. We have events on almost every week and one of the newest is the Turbo Air DH. This is in memory of the charismatic AJ Cleary who is no longer with us. But every jump I re-face, I think of AJ scrubbing through our Park. We will be holding the race on Pipe Dream and it will be a blast! The atmosphere is going to embody Turbo and if you did not have the privilege of knowing AJ (AK Turbo, AK Flying squirrel, AK the list goes on) you will want to do the race to feel the vibe this guy put out! All proceeds are also going to the youth program NOCS is working on. Something AJ was close too, getting kids on bikes and teaching them the love of the shred!

There is enough to keep every biker busy in the Silver Star Bike Park this summer. Now I need to join the team on Blast Off to get that trail buffed for June 13th.

Later,

Cam

2015 Bike Park Hours of Operation:
•Early season bonus weekend June 20 [HTML_REMOVED] 21
•7 days a week June 25 to September 7
•TWO bonus weekends September 12 [HTML_REMOVED] 13 AND September 19 [HTML_REMOVED] 20.

2015 Bike Park Season Pass Pricing [HTML_REMOVED] Benefits:

Early Bird Pricing

2015 Summer Season Early Bird Price Regular Season Pass Price - on or BEFORE May 31st

Adult (19+) $339.00

Youth (13-18) [HTML_REMOVED] Senior (65+) $306.00

Child (6-12) $240.00

Tot: FREE**

XC Add on $25.00*

• Gain unlimited XC riding on our expanded network in 2015.

**All free passes are subject to a $19.00 processing fee.

Cams first update :)

March 19, 2015 - Bike Park preparation

The snow is melting slowly but there is still 3 weeks left of skiing. With FrostBike over and the days getting longer I start thinking and planning for the coming summer. Now, I know it looks like an early spring, but that doesn't mean the park will open early! It still takes a lot of work to get the trails ready and open. What it does mean is that maybe, just maybe we'll get to put a lot more TLC into the trails before opening for our first bonus weekend.

We are starting the second year of a 3 year major expansion here at the Silver Star Bike Park. Last summer we saw upper Jedi Mind Trick come to life, we opened over 30 km of new XC trails and we completed the first stage (6.3 km) of the epic Beowulf. The trail crew worked right up until the first heavy snow fall late October smashing out as much of Beowulf as we could muster. The end result is an out and back from the Village that will take most riders 1.5 - 2 hours just for the opening section of Beowulf. This will be open early this summer and will give you a good taste of what the full 35 km trail will be like when finished. Just remember when you get to the end of the line, turn around, otherwise it will be a long push back out (you won’t like it). We are working towards the full trail being completed summer 2016.

So what do we have in the works this summer other than working on Beowulf?

We are going to connect the dots on Jedi Mind Trick. With the upper and lower sections running really well we should have the middle sections pulled together by mid-summer! After that we will make any tweaks to the trail after a winter hardening and the trail is running at full speed.

After finishing Jedi Mind Trick we will start working on the final section of Walk The Line. We know this has been highly anticipated from the expert riders in the park. And trust me when I say the trail crew is chomping at the bit to get to work on this trail! If all goes as planned and the summer and the weather co-operates we will be riding this before the end of the summer.

We also have a lot of large events coming to the resort this summer. Events like Single Track 6, BC Cup DH, FMB slopestyle and the BC Enduro Series stopping at the resort - we have an action pack calendar. Check the web site for one of the many events you might want to attend.

Lastly if you are an avid mountain biker, have some experience building trail; we have a couple spots open on the team this summer. This is not for the faint of heart and you have to love moving dirt because we have a full agenda of trails to build this summer. Send your resume to me [email protected] if you want to apply. The application process is open until the end of March. After that we will slim it down to the top builders that want to join the Silver Star Bike Park Trail Crew.

Until June 20, our first bonus weekend, see you on the local trails where I will be getting my legs ready for bike park season.

LaterCam

This is gonna be epic again cant wait to watch

http://www.skisilverstar.com/events/frostbike-0

FrostBike

This race is capped so don't wait to register!

Price:

$60*

*Entry fee does not include online processing fees or applicable taxes

Entry fee includes lift to the top of the course for both days!

Date and Time:
•Practice is 10:00am to 4:00pm Saturday
•Race starts at 11:00am on Sunday
•On site plate pick up and waiver signing is Saturday only from 9am till noon

Categories with three or less maybe combined with another category

Complete information can be found at www.seracing.ca

Questions? Email [email protected]

ACCOMMODATIONS

Silver Star will offer participants 15% off a minimum 2 night stay in any of our Properties - Silver Star Bike Park has assigned the booking

Code "EF" for FrostBIKE 2015. Please call 1-800-663-4431 to book today.

Wooooo hoooooo stoked on this :)

September 5, 2014 - Season recap [HTML_REMOVED] future

As the season winds down it’s easy to sit back and look at our accomplishments this summer and start looking forward to next year, but that’s not what the Silver Star Trail Crew is not going to do! Granted the rain has buffed up the park nicely and this past weekend was amazing! But with no riders on the trails this week we feel we can get some major maintenance done. We are going to hit the trail maintenance hard while the DH trails are closed! If you come up for the bonus weekends you will find sections of Rock Star and Super Star completely re-built. Not only will this make our bonus weekends amazing but it will give us a jump start on next year’s openings.

Super Star mid trail is going to see a major re-vamp. Not completely sure how it is going to turn out but those little jumps mid trail that are starting to have stumps poke out of them are going to get a major face lift. This is a pretty big undertaking so it may take a couple weeks. You’ll witness the changes over the next two bonus weekends.

And then there is Rock Star the re-build is happening after YVR, the double wood drops. This section of trail was rough. The line is staying the same just a full buff up - take offs refaced, berms doubled in size, sight lines opened back up [HTML_REMOVED] landing smoothed out. Over all the same fall line just a whole lot smoother!

It was a huge year as you can see from all the expansion in the park! So far we have built over 18 km of trail this year and maintained the Bike Park with it's over 50 km of dedicated DH trails. Out of that 18 km we built over 3 km of all new DH trail. Jedi Mind Trick phase II has been received with huge success! Look for the third and final build on this trail to start next spring and come on line Mid-August 2015 connecting the dots. We also have the last part of Walk the Line in the plans for next year. If all goes well with Jedi we want to get started on the final chapter of this big jump trail as well.

But enough about the future let's review what is fresh this year and you can still ride. XC remains open with a valid pass and we still have two more bonus weekends for the Park. Sept 6th /7th [HTML_REMOVED] the 13th / 14th.

Chakra was a complete build early this year. With over 3 km of flow XC trail I have to say this is one of my favorite XC trails in the Park. Granted it has just as much up as it does down but man do the downhill sections rip!

Grizzly Adam was finished mid-July this year. It’s almost a kilometer of technical climbing and descending this trail takes us out to the Mountain View Cabin which is also the jumping off point for Corkscrew.

The newest addition to the XC network, Corkscrew was just completed this week! It’s 2 km of twisting, turning, up hill [HTML_REMOVED] downhill berming fun. You can complete it as a loop and continue on your way or ride it in reverse for something different.

All the bridges and board walk were built on Silver Shack this spring. Giving us a 3.5 km climb up the mountain. If you have been on this trail you get it! This is the lead in to Beowulf (same style trail for 30 km)

Eric's had almost a kilometer added to this OG trail extending it to the lower trail network. Also pulling another black trail into our XC network, some of the locals call this their favorite trail.

We burned in close to 4 more km for our beginner XC riders with Meadow Trail. This happened so late in the season we have not even got the signage up. Join this up the Mountain View and Side winder and you have a huge loop for the entry level XC rider.

The all new Easy Street DH was built this spring. Some people forget this trail was built this year because we had it open before the lifts started to turn. This trail was almost a month in the making and it is fun for all abilities to get to the lift from our mid mountain village.

Also in the same area you’ll find the Explorer Loop. A 1/2 km loop for those learning to get off their seat and ride the bike; instead of the bike taking them for a ride. Turned out this trail was a great training ground for both our DH and XC Camps and the groms learning to ride.

Upper Super Star was recently completely re-built and the line changed which is pretty much like building a trail from scratch. Basically trees were removed, the line opened up and berms added. Yes it is a little slower than the old trail but has that active feel of berm to berm transfers Silver Star Bike Park is known for.

So to say the least trail crew has been busy this summer and this is only the beginning. After the work is done in the DH Park and we have put her to bed for the winter. We are going to continue working on the epic trail Beowulf until the snow flies. To get the 30 km trail done we are going to put all resources into it throughout the fall and see how far we can get.

But for now lube up your chain, check those pivots and get your bike ready for the last few days of riding. Because after that it will be a long winter thinking about riding down Pipe Dream again!

LaterCam

August 29, 2014 - Upper Super Star and more XC

I have to apologize. There are a few spots in the Park that are getting a little rough. I know it is the end of the season and the moisture is coming back into the dirt but trail crew is particular about our trails and sad they are not up to the standard most people expect, us included. Now this is not to say the Park is in bad shape by any means; just a few spots that we know about and would like to work on. Here is the explanation. We know that lower Rock Star is getting a little bumpy. The shape it is in warrants some Trail Crew love. But why are we giving upper Super Star a full re-build?

Super Star is an area that is under snow for the first few weeks of the season. Early season is when we do a majority of trail maintenance. We can never get to Upper SS early season and once the snow is off this section we are onto building new trails. (Side note, new Jedi Mind Trick is running great with the recent rain!) So, we made the conscious decision to go onto Super Star at the expense of some much needed maintenance. So now that the changes are almost done on Upper Super Star you can enjoy a fresh new trail and know that Trail Crew is looking to do a full rebuild on lower Rock Star in the Spring, where it melts out early and we can do more good.

The changes to Super Star are quick! You will have to bring your A-game if you want to smash through there at full speed. Just a word of advice, slow it down a bit until you learn this all new section of trail. It may be a little tricky to figure out the right line through the tight berms but we feel once the trail is hard and you have the line figured out it should work really well and have fewer break bumps. Enjoy.

For the NOCS group ride this week we gave a sneak peek at Corkscrew - the newest addition to the ever growing XC network. I think everyone enjoyed their ride and could see the difference the rain made to the trail. The Ice Cream buffet at the finish was a nice touch. We will have the dots connected next week to make it a compete loop that can be ridden both ways. I feel it may have a preferred direction of flow but I will have to ride it out a few times before I make that call.

Once we have Corkscrew done we are going to take that machine into the Park for a few days before our bonus weekends to hammer out some of that maintenance I talked about. Again this will be on one of the soggy sections of trail we can’t get to in the spring.

Then it will be moving to Beowulf to join the rest of the crew that has over 2 km of this epic trail completed. I will be honest this trail is turning out to be more of an undertaking than we first thought, alder 7’ high, an old forest with red rot knee high. The good news though is that this trail is going to be ridiculously fun to ride! Sorry for the tease but it will be another year before there is enough trail to get tires on. We will look at doing some sneak peeks out and back as soon as we can. Stay posted.

Remember the fall is the best time of year to ride your bike! We received a little rain today and the forecast is for a bit cooler temps. So no need to go to the lake this weekend, go biking! Come ride the Bike Park for our last regular weekend of the 2014 season and wait for that Indian summer to get back on the water.

LaterCam

August 20, 2014 - More NEW trail

As promised we have more fresh trail open for you to ride this week! I trust most of the downhillers in the crowd have now sampled Jedi Mind Trick in the Park?

It is hardening up but there is still more to come. After a winter of snow pushing down on the trail we should see Jedi running even quicker. With that speed we feel there may be a few adjustments that will need to be made to some of the jumps. For this season we will be leaving them alone, so keep this in mind as a few of the jumps may be a little short if you are packing some heat.

We have opened over 4km of new flowing single track for our beginner XC friends. Meadow Trail is now burned in and brushed out for your enjoyment. This trail was a late addition to the network so it is not on any of our printed maps. It will be added to the NOCS app in the near future. The signage is also back ordered, sorry. To find this trail it comes off of the end of Sidewinder and around the last fenced settling pond or from the bottom of Tube Town, from under the Nordic arch. If you know the winter Nordic trails it is the same Meadow trail you ski in the winter.

We are also opening up Corkscrew XC trail. This trail is not yet complete but there is enough trail and viewpoints to warrant opening it, letting us all enjoy trails crews hard work. Please respect the signage and turn around when you get to where they are working, it will eventually be a full loop trail you can ride in both directions. Thanks!

Access for Corkscrew is just off of the Mountain View Cabin, via Grizzly Adams or Sidewinder.

We have pounded out over 2km of the future Beowulf trail as well. Unfortunately there are still a few bridges to go in so watch for a sneak peak of this trail in the coming weeks.

Have a great week of riding the rain has turned all the trails into brown pow!

LaterCam