North Shore - Triple Crown 07/07/07
It's time for the fourth and final North Shore Ripper event, The Triple Crown.
Reports from the first three events for those that missed them.
7th Secret
Super D
CBC DH Time Trial
The Triple Crown is an event that spans the three major mountians on the North Shore. It only has check points and the riders can pick any route or method to get to those check points.
The check points and basic rotue are:
Start Old Buck parking lot on Seymour
Top of CBC
Water towers on Mountain Hwy on Fromme
6th switchback on Mountain Hwy Fromme
Cleveland Dam (just below the tram on Capilano Rd that goes up Grouse)
Lot 5 top of the trails on Cypress
Obsession Cycles on Lower Londsdale.
68kms 7,510 feet of climbing/decent
Last year LeeLau and I teamed up to do an extended route. Our plan was to start at sea level and then climb beyond each upp mountian check point to the ski hills that are atop each of the local mountains, but also returning to sealevel between each climb. Lee's TR is here. We failed in returning to sealevel between Grouse and Cypress due to timing and wanting to hit each check point before they closed. Our day was 96.8kms and 9,954 feet of climbing over 12hrs.
This year I have planned an even further extended route. We will start in Deep Cove and cover most all of last years route but instead of heading back to North Van from the bottom of Cypress we will continue west to Horseshoe Bay them return along the road to Lower Lonsdale. The route will be 110km+ and 10,000+ feet of climbing. I'll be riding it with my uber fit big bike riding buddy MattJ. Instead of some clapped out 25$ junker as I've raced the last three races on I'll be riding a Bionicon Edison. Matt was to ride a Ironwood but instead will be hammering it out on his GranMal (still set up full DH aside from a light seat, no granny). Matt is a genetic mutant that rides a big bike like it's a 30lbs xc machine. I've done all the route finding ahead of time this year, we won't be picky the easy options down the mountain, Seymour will be CBC, TNT, Cabin, Dales, After Taste. Fromme will be JetBoy, final on Cypress will be Sagar. Should be fun.
I've already started planning an even further extended Quadruple Crown for next year if we survive this one :)
