Day 1: Quick Ride Around in Bralorne

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Day 2: Float Trip Drop at Lorna Lake

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Start of the float plane adventure at Tyax Lodge

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In the Beaver and cruising through the South Chilcotin Mountains Provincial Park

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Flying through some break taking scenery

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Ahhhh guys, so we’re like still flying, don’t we have to ride back through this?

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Allllllrrrrriiiigggghhhhhttttt!

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I’m stunned at the beauty, but seriously, we’re still flying

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Well we’ve pretty much run of mountains so I’m guessing we’re landing here somewhere

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The crew, pumped and ready for landing.

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The approach to Lorna Lake. It was really windy too, so the plane was moving around quite a lot. The pilot took a couple attempts and stomped the landing on the 4th try.

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The pilot was cool as a cucumber and rocked a bad ass moustache. Safely landed on Lorna Lake

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Backcountry engineering, one rickety old dock. This was taken just before noon, not ideal given the length of ride ahead of us. From this point on we were racing the sun. GO!

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Top of the first climb up Lorna Pass and ready to rip the short descent down in the valley below

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Taken part way up the Deer Pass. We’ve climbed up out of the valley in the distance

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Taken facing the other way from the picture below. We’re heading up the ridge in the distance. Yes the one with the snow on it.

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Still climbing, and just loving the scenery. My eyes hurt from the eye boners.

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Getting ever closer to the top of the Deer Pass

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The top of Deer Pass and stoked. 700m vertical gained in 5 km of trail.

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Since the photo at the top of Deer Pass we were pinned. This photo was taken as we got back to the truck. 60 km of trail, 9 hours elapsed time, 6 hours of saddle time. 1500m of vertical climbed. 3000m of vertical descended. Tired and thoroughly stoked.

Day 3: Climb up to Lick Pass and Descent Down Lick Creek

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At the top of the grueling climb and making our way across this beautiful valley

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Range on point.

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Our crew taking a quick rest of the top of the climb and enjoying the back country scenery

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After lots of climbing to the top of Lick Creek Descent. 14 km of single track dropping 1200m of vertical. We wind up down near that blue lake in the distance. PUMPED!


 Day 4: Quick rip in Bralorne

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