Sep 27, 2017 | Sun Peaks Resort Bike Park Trip Info, Trip Stories
It happened almost like clockwork. The shadows grew long as the light softened, a cool breeze bloomed from between the trees, and we gathered at Sun Peaks Resort to celebrate the changing of the seasons during Peaks Pedal Fest this Labour Day Weekend.
Jul 26, 2017 | Sun Peaks Resort Bike Park Trip Info, Trip Stories
The BC DH Championships and second stop on the BC Cup circuit roared through Sun Peaks Resort this past weekend, bringing with it some of Canada’s fastest riders. With forest fires ablaze throughout the northwest, fortune smiled over the resort on race day with a bright blue sky, mostly clear of smoke. Consistently scorching temps made for a fast and loose track that had racers testing their traction at every turn, right out of the gates. North Vancouver’s Matt Beer reclaimed his title as fastest man on the mountain, and Provincial Champion, with a white-knuckled five minutes flat, nearly 14 seconds faster than anyone else in his class. Laurie Citynski went home with the Provincial title for her Elite Women category, and Junior Women champ Aleda Toronitz was the talk of this small town for recording the fastest female time of the day. The Sun Peaks DH course’s 600 metre vertical descent starts from the top of the Sunburst chairlift and then drops directly under it, into the rock-face-laden Insanity One, where countless riders have pushed their limits while racing the clock over the past couple decades. This is a trail with infinite opportunities for ingenuity, though, and line choices abound for those creative or courageous enough to try them. From Insanity One the course hangs a right onto the recently sculpted Sticky One, and, although the lower rock faces of the former began resembling rivers of fine silt as the weekend’s traffic wore on, the latter was where things got really loose and the dust barely settled, if at all, between racer intervals. When asked if anyone was...
