Sun Peaks Open
Ride it like you Own it...
June 27, 2008 – Sun Peaks, BC – It's been a hectic spring for the Sun Peaks Bike Park Trail Crew, but the trails are ready to ride! Opening Day for the Bike Park is tomorrow, June 28, 2008, and there are 70km of trails and 255 features to experience.
Whether you're looking for technical single track, flowing machine made trails, steep downhill courses, or cruising green runs, Sun Peaks has close to 40 trails that offer diversity for every level of rider.
Smooth Smoothie makes for a great warm up run for beginners. This wide and gentle trail has switchbacks all the way down the mountain. Barn Burner is an intermediate trail with a mixture of terrain and features with shale, machine made berms, single track, small drops, and a few steep sections. Kaboom is a black run not for the faint of heart. This technical single track is full of rock faces, drops, and steep loose shale sections.
Trail Crew Manager Kenton Matthews has been working with his team to ensure the trails are dialed in for opening day. Insanity One has been buffed from top to bottom as the crew filled in the ruts and beefed up the berms to make the trail even faster. The Trail Crew has also put a lot of work into Sugar, one of our oldest trails. Look for a 35' long skinny with a 4' drop at the end. This new feature is located in the area that was logged last year. On Sweet One, all of the bridges have been realigned and the dead fall was all removed.
To ensure you spend more time on your bike and less time at the base area, Lift Operations will be increasing bike carrier capacity by 25% by adding a fourth carrier. Also watch out for improved signage throughout the Bike Park. The Trail Map has also been completely redesigned to provide a more accurate representation of the trail system.
Sun Peaks Bike Park Events:
July 5 – High Roller Ride
Kamloops and area bike shops will have stations set-up throughout the Bike Park and participants will have to search them out in order to test their luck with a roll of the dice.
July 26 – The Homecoming with Rocky Mountain Bikes
Ride the park with Wade Simmons who is making the trek back to his hometown of Kamloops with his friends, Kyle McDonald and the Shrew. Rocky Mountain is bringing their freeride and DH lineup with them for you to demo in the park.
Aug 24 – Canada Cup Downhill Race
Keep watching sunpeaksresort.com for more events in the Sun Peaks Bike Park!
About Sun Peaks
Sun Peaks Resort is a four season destination resort located in the interior of British Columbia near Kamloops. In winter, Sun Peaks is British Columbia's second largest ski area with three mountains surrounding an intimate ski-in, ski-out village. In other seasons, Sun Peaks offers a diverse range of leisure activities including 18 holes of golf as well as numerous events and festivals. Sun Peaks Resort was the first ski resort in North America and is the only resort in Canada to receive the ISO 14001 designation recognizing the resorts environmental policies and practices. Sun Peaks can be accessed by two airport gateways - Kamloops (45 minutes) and Kelowna (2 1/2 hours) and by car, only a 4 ¼ hour drive separates Sun Peaks and Vancouver, B.C.
