Can you imagine seeing a 90s OG rider drop in on A-Line on their Huffy next to someone thinking their 180mm travel isn't enough? Sick travel through time!
"After a quick consultation with [Whistler bike park in Canada], the Winter Park Resort staff wanted to do something similar back in Colorado. And so, some of the genius designers from the Whistler/Blackcomb project created their own company, Gravity Logic, and their first gig was building Trestle Bike Park."
I went there last year on my brother-in-law's bucket list trip. I'm a 54-year old mild XC rider just a few years into the sport, and was super nervous about hitting _the_ Whistler, but I shouldn't have been. They've made it so accessible to everyone, and after a day of green flow trails I went to the top and enjoyed the rest of the week on a mix of blue flow and tech. Hitting Crank It Up with my brother-in-law was such a treat, though I just soaked up the jumps rather than sending them like he did. We said it was a once in a lifetime trip (due to the expense), but honestly I can't wait to go back!
My first trip to Whistler 2001. We kept hearing about this trail called A-Line that was being built. So a group of us headed up from our hometown of Santa Cruz, Ca. Was the best 3 weeks of my life. We got to ride for 5 days. It was like nothing we could have ever dreamed. Oh. And the lift pass was $60 bucks. Maybe 55. 23 years and a few concussions later it’s a bit foggy.
My dad was squatting/ski bumming backing the early 80s and loves to tell me the story of how his old pooping spot is now the front doorstep of the Fairmont Chateau Whistler.
I raced downhill at Whistler in 97/98 but I haven't been back since. I still have my old Rocky DH Race, would be awesome to get it running and try it on the new trails.
When I was 20, we went to Whistler in the summer of 2001 for a family vacation (haven't been back since). It's amazing to see what it's becoming now, so I need to get back now that I'm an adult with my own kid!
My first time riding Whistler was during the first Base Coast party called Festival Shmestival. My friends and I rode from noon to 8pm. Then partied till 4am each night. Best 3 days of my life 😊
Great video. Brings back a lot of memories and nice to see some familiar faces as well. Am I the only one that misses the old Whistler? 2004-2011ish when the start of Dirt Merchant was via short (and very slippery in the rain) wooden ladder/ramp, Freight Train was longer and way more fun, A-Line to the GLC drop etc.
first trip to whistler was 2004, I can't believe what seems like yesterday is also 20years ago. I think about my 3 trips since and its amazing what this place has done for our sport. Those of you who ride it all the time are so lucky.
Just spent two amazing days there for my first ever trip. What really blew my mind was how even some of the most gnarly features we bumbled up to still looked approachable. It really is masterfully made. Day two would've been more epic, but I neglected to replace my brake pads after day one. This led to problems... heh! I would like to have words with somebody about the braking bumps up in the Garbo zone though. Sweet Jeebus those were rough!
Whistler bike park isn’t a location on a map, it’s a feeling. Whistler is the a5 Japanese wagyu of bike parks. Riding a trail there gives you a euphoric feeling unlike anything else
Can confirm, nothing hits a mountain biker in the feels like walking up the village and seeing the Fitz chair for the first time. I travel and ride around the world, and it's the only place that literally brought tears to my eyes the first time I was there ❤
I just came back from Whistler, it was an amazing experience but never found how to get to the top the of world :) I think it was closed, I should have asked but anyway, detail, I had so much fun. The trail were very damaged, maybe too many riders. Silverstar and SunPeaks are I think my favorite bike park in BC, we had so much fun in those trails. SilverStar for so many differences in the trails, tough technical trails and lots of features while SunPeaks... I don't recall any other bike park with so many steep trails... what an amazing place to ride. Report Report :) Silverstar: 9.5/10 SunPeaks: 9.1/10 Whistler: 9.0/10 BigWhite: 8.5/10 Revelstoke: 8.1/10 (Mostly I think because it was almost unrideable with all the rain... it was so dangerous, I felt like I was riding in peanut butter all the time :) I'll need to go back again :)
1:17 - I wouldn't ski or do DH MTBing at all if I depended on those 2-seaters BTW, I've always wanted to go to Whistler (I'm from Spain) but it's mad expensive. Even if I exclude the plane tickets from my mind, a one-day ticket is €80 when the same for Vallnord is just €35 and the rentals are also absurdly expensive (a bike+gear kit in Andorra is like €100/day). I'm amazed there are queues in Whistler with those prices. PS: I laughed a lot with your previous video when you were stoked to have the seat+rack combos we've had in Andorra since the mid 2000s.
I used to work the winter season of 2005 at Whistler Blackcomb. Havent been back since. Maybe next year i would like to visit the bike park..but the cost to fly all the way there cost me a full new MTB.
I think the first time I rode Whistler was around 1990, there was a race...Greg Herebold and Andy Tout were there...RS1's were just out and so were the Tioga disk wheels....I remember going to the roundhouse and we rode down the roads...it was the best....but very tough on our little shitty brakes. It's come so far...and I still try to get there once a year...disneyland for mountain bikers...
What about a vídeo about the relation of bike parks and the ecologic conservation? In some countries there are little bike parks for that exact reason and it can be interesting to know how it has been handled and evolving. Great vid!!
Whistler is the best❤❤❤... I live in calgary and have been coming once a year for the past few years... Wish I could afford to convert more often. The best trails, nothing like it anywhere
I went there in the summer of '94, as a teenager. I rented a bike and rode the surrounding areas. I don't think the mountain was even open. The place seemed like a ghost town.
"Little Whistler" is also what Red Bull called Järvsö bike park in Sweden a few years ago 😁 Iirc, the team in Järvsö hired some of the Whistler team to build their park as well! I'm no downhill rider myself, but I wouldn't say no to visit Whistler!
Whistler is fantastic but Les Portes du Soleil is the GOAT ( Champery, Chatel, Morgins, Les Gets, Morzine, Avoriaz) especially for technical trails. Whistler used to be amazing now it is so overpriced $100 for a day pass ( $300 ski pass) and not affordable ( even Swiss ski resorts are cheaper).
Have you been to Whistler? I'm down the road from PDS in Switzerland, and I used to live in Whistler. The level or organisation, execution of trails and quality of it far exceeds anywhere I've been in Europe yet. Yes, PDS is good, but it could absolutely be improved. There are so many small things - consistency of trail grading, signing trails better, available water stations, ability to load more bikes onto lifts to speed up getting people up the mountain, etc, etc. I can continue, but it's kinda boring. For me Whistler is the best bike park I've ridden, and a place most European bike park teams would benefit from visiting, to up their game. (oh and the trails outside the bike park? Even better!)
@@2dcutout I was in Whistler yesterday, I am Canadian and Savoisien ( 300 bikepark days in both place ) the maintenance is better than the PDS, flow trails are better in Whistler. They just improved Fitz, before it used to be worse than during the Passportes with 30 min line up. The negative part of Whistler is the rescue, many time i had to carry injured people to the chairlift because Whistler staff didn't want to help because "Garbonzo is too far" ... Technical trails are way better in the PDS, tons of secret / freeride spots around Morzine, Avoriaz, les Gets and Chatel. Same thing you can lap super Morzine off season and the bikepark don't care. You can't do that in Whistler and you have a variety of trails and atmosphere in the PDS, i will not mention the food that is way better in the Alps. I love Whistler but they are a bit too cocky and disrespectful with their customers like full season price for a closed Fitz and massive line up that is steep. Saw a few bikes getting crushed by the new chairlift ( one lady who had her bike crushed had a Morzine jersey LOL) , i hope they will get some money back.
To what degree, and in what manner, did you use AI to write, organize, edit, color grade, or otherwise finish this video, if at all? Just curious, because that was a big project. Great stuff.
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Can you imagine seeing a 90s OG rider drop in on A-Line on their Huffy next to someone thinking their 180mm travel isn't enough? Sick travel through time!
I keep seeing you in every comment😂
@IzonizeMTB you didn't see nothin 👀🤫
@@splooshmtb 🤣
This video gave me nostalgia! I can’t believe I’ve been riding this park for over 20 years. There’s no place like Whistler.
"After a quick consultation with [Whistler bike park in Canada], the Winter Park Resort staff wanted to do something similar back in Colorado. And so, some of the genius designers from the Whistler/Blackcomb project created their own company, Gravity Logic, and their first gig was building Trestle Bike Park."
Trestle is sick, would love to see these guys do some videos there.
Gravity Logic built Bryce Bike Park in Virginia!
I went there last year on my brother-in-law's bucket list trip. I'm a 54-year old mild XC rider just a few years into the sport, and was super nervous about hitting _the_ Whistler, but I shouldn't have been. They've made it so accessible to everyone, and after a day of green flow trails I went to the top and enjoyed the rest of the week on a mix of blue flow and tech. Hitting Crank It Up with my brother-in-law was such a treat, though I just soaked up the jumps rather than sending them like he did. We said it was a once in a lifetime trip (due to the expense), but honestly I can't wait to go back!
My first trip to Whistler 2001. We kept hearing about this trail called A-Line that was being built. So a group of us headed up from our hometown of Santa Cruz, Ca. Was the best 3 weeks of my life. We got to ride for 5 days. It was like nothing we could have ever dreamed. Oh. And the lift pass was $60 bucks. Maybe 55. 23 years and a few concussions later it’s a bit foggy.
My dad was squatting/ski bumming backing the early 80s and loves to tell me the story of how his old pooping spot is now the front doorstep of the Fairmont Chateau Whistler.
I was there too... Opened Araxi's 😉
I raced downhill at Whistler in 97/98 but I haven't been back since. I still have my old Rocky DH Race, would be awesome to get it running and try it on the new trails.
How the hell is Morgan Freeman not narrating this amazing documentary!!!
That was Morgan Freeman doing his best Matt Dennison impression.
@@mahalomydude I would have gone with Cleveland Brown.
When I was 20, we went to Whistler in the summer of 2001 for a family vacation (haven't been back since). It's amazing to see what it's becoming now, so I need to get back now that I'm an adult with my own kid!
My first time riding Whistler was during the first Base Coast party called Festival Shmestival.
My friends and I rode from noon to 8pm. Then partied till 4am each night. Best 3 days of my life 😊
Sick video lads. It's a privilege to get to live here and ride the park regularly. Only my 2nd season riding but the stoke is high!
Great video. Brings back a lot of memories and nice to see some familiar faces as well.
Am I the only one that misses the old Whistler? 2004-2011ish when the start of Dirt Merchant was via short (and very slippery in the rain) wooden ladder/ramp, Freight Train was longer and way more fun, A-Line to the GLC drop etc.
Do you guys ever get tired of making really good videos?! Geez. Leave some for the rest of us! 😂
Thanks for the nostalgia rip. Good times have been had, cool seeing some of those old features again.
first trip to whistler was 2004, I can't believe what seems like yesterday is also 20years ago. I think about my 3 trips since and its amazing what this place has done for our sport. Those of you who ride it all the time are so lucky.
Watching a Proflex ride by near the end of the video while actively retro-modding a Proflex 855.
That was fun to watch! Great job on the edit.
Just spent two amazing days there for my first ever trip. What really blew my mind was how even some of the most gnarly features we bumbled up to still looked approachable. It really is masterfully made. Day two would've been more epic, but I neglected to replace my brake pads after day one. This led to problems... heh!
I would like to have words with somebody about the braking bumps up in the Garbo zone though. Sweet Jeebus those were rough!
Whistler bike park isn’t a location on a map, it’s a feeling. Whistler is the a5 Japanese wagyu of bike parks. Riding a trail there gives you a euphoric feeling unlike anything else
Can confirm, nothing hits a mountain biker in the feels like walking up the village and seeing the Fitz chair for the first time. I travel and ride around the world, and it's the only place that literally brought tears to my eyes the first time I was there ❤
that was a super sick video!!! now lets break the world record for worlds biggest mtb train on the 26th of July!!
Tell us more! What about Pinkbike’s Party lap @ Thursday, July 25, 5:30PM?
That historical footage of Whistler and the Bike Park was freekin cool!
Love your content. Got to ride Whistler last Wednesday the 10th. Drove from San Diego to send it. It was amazing.
I’m going tomorrow! First time ever at a bike park!
I still remember my first run down A-Line in 2007. I got 5 laps on er yesterday and its still just as fun!
I just came back from Whistler, it was an amazing experience but never found how to get to the top the of world :) I think it was closed, I should have asked but anyway, detail, I had so much fun. The trail were very damaged, maybe too many riders. Silverstar and SunPeaks are I think my favorite bike park in BC, we had so much fun in those trails. SilverStar for so many differences in the trails, tough technical trails and lots of features while SunPeaks... I don't recall any other bike park with so many steep trails... what an amazing place to ride.
Report Report :)
Silverstar: 9.5/10
SunPeaks: 9.1/10
Whistler: 9.0/10
BigWhite: 8.5/10
Revelstoke: 8.1/10 (Mostly I think because it was almost unrideable with all the rain... it was so dangerous, I felt like I was riding in peanut butter all the time :) I'll need to go back again :)
Watching through tears from the other side of the globe... Amazing documentary!
This is an awesome look at the past of Whistler! I've got to get out there one of these years.
Soo sick, was lucky enough to watch this premiere at Whistler on a big screen 👏👏👏
1:17 - I wouldn't ski or do DH MTBing at all if I depended on those 2-seaters
BTW, I've always wanted to go to Whistler (I'm from Spain) but it's mad expensive. Even if I exclude the plane tickets from my mind, a one-day ticket is €80 when the same for Vallnord is just €35 and the rentals are also absurdly expensive (a bike+gear kit in Andorra is like €100/day). I'm amazed there are queues in Whistler with those prices.
PS: I laughed a lot with your previous video when you were stoked to have the seat+rack combos we've had in Andorra since the mid 2000s.
most non europeans stay for longer and buy season passes :P
insanely well edited 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾! great Video
Perfect timing! Going there for the first time next week I’m so pumped
I used to work the winter season of 2005 at Whistler Blackcomb. Havent been back since. Maybe next year i would like to visit the bike park..but the cost to fly all the way there cost me a full new MTB.
I think the first time I rode Whistler was around 1990, there was a race...Greg Herebold and Andy Tout were there...RS1's were just out and so were the Tioga disk wheels....I remember going to the roundhouse and we rode down the roads...it was the best....but very tough on our little shitty brakes. It's come so far...and I still try to get there once a year...disneyland for mountain bikers...
I went there for one day in 2018 when I lived in Seattle for the summer. It was the best day of my life.
Sooo well done, love it!! Thanks for the content. 🤙
What about a vídeo about the relation of bike parks and the ecologic conservation?
In some countries there are little bike parks for that exact reason and it can be interesting to know how it has been handled and evolving.
Great vid!!
Whistler is the best❤❤❤... I live in calgary and have been coming once a year for the past few years... Wish I could afford to convert more often. The best trails, nothing like it anywhere
What a great episode! Thanks for sharing!
Sucha great video. Made me sad I have never been.
I went there in the summer of '94, as a teenager. I rented a bike and rode the surrounding areas. I don't think the mountain was even open. The place seemed like a ghost town.
Awesome Vid Thanks 😎 Was There Saturday and Will MOST Likely Be There Next Saturday LOVE DH 😎
Come to Mountain Creek Bike Park in NJ and the Watershed Trails in Port Jervis NY! I'd love to see a vid there...
Home of Whismas! Still need ride here!!!
you guys forgot the blackcomb time pre park time you could take the wizzard and soloar coaster up with lots of trails...that was a decade the 90's....
"Little Whistler" is also what Red Bull called Järvsö bike park in Sweden a few years ago 😁
Iirc, the team in Järvsö hired some of the Whistler team to build their park as well!
I'm no downhill rider myself, but I wouldn't say no to visit Whistler!
Sick! I want to book a trip to Whistler now
Truly the holy grail of the sport. Almost everything in one spot.
so cool to watch this live in whis. sick video
That’s awesome! Thanks for coming out to see the show 🤙
This was rad to see!
yall forgot the fact i have to sell my kidney just to get up the mountain
I rode no joke when it was a loamer when garbanzo opened for riding in 2004 lol. Now I feel old 😅
Great video
Moved there in 2006, seemed like 1999 was so long ago at the time, now here we are in 2024.
This is so well done. Even my wife liked it. And she doesn't like MTB stuff.😅
My old helmet cam vids of the park in the 2000's shows how much bigger Crabapple Hits are now. 😮
I’ll be there in few weeks! 🎉🎉🎉
Noice! So cool. You’re one lucky dude 🙏
Rad video boys!
RAD!
Still haven't been anywhere that comes close to Whistler. Maybe Sun Peaks, but Whistler is still the king.
I remember in the early days they used to do bike checks before you could go up the hill 😎
Whistler is fantastic but Les Portes du Soleil is the GOAT ( Champery, Chatel, Morgins, Les Gets, Morzine, Avoriaz) especially for technical trails. Whistler used to be amazing now it is so overpriced $100 for a day pass ( $300 ski pass) and not affordable ( even Swiss ski resorts are cheaper).
Have you been to Whistler?
I'm down the road from PDS in Switzerland, and I used to live in Whistler. The level or organisation, execution of trails and quality of it far exceeds anywhere I've been in Europe yet. Yes, PDS is good, but it could absolutely be improved. There are so many small things - consistency of trail grading, signing trails better, available water stations, ability to load more bikes onto lifts to speed up getting people up the mountain, etc, etc. I can continue, but it's kinda boring.
For me Whistler is the best bike park I've ridden, and a place most European bike park teams would benefit from visiting, to up their game.
(oh and the trails outside the bike park? Even better!)
@@2dcutout I was in Whistler yesterday, I am Canadian and Savoisien ( 300 bikepark days in both place ) the maintenance is better than the PDS, flow trails are better in Whistler. They just improved Fitz, before it used to be worse than during the Passportes with 30 min line up. The negative part of Whistler is the rescue, many time i had to carry injured people to the chairlift because Whistler staff didn't want to help because "Garbonzo is too far" ... Technical trails are way better in the PDS, tons of secret / freeride spots around Morzine, Avoriaz, les Gets and Chatel. Same thing you can lap super Morzine off season and the bikepark don't care. You can't do that in Whistler and you have a variety of trails and atmosphere in the PDS, i will not mention the food that is way better in the Alps. I love Whistler but they are a bit too cocky and disrespectful with their customers like full season price for a closed Fitz and massive line up that is steep. Saw a few bikes getting crushed by the new chairlift ( one lady who had her bike crushed had a Morzine jersey LOL) , i hope they will get some money back.
To what degree, and in what manner, did you use AI to write, organize, edit, color grade, or otherwise finish this video, if at all? Just curious, because that was a big project. Great stuff.
Fair question! We used AI to help us simplify some of our writing and that’s it.
@@mahalomydude That left you with a great deal of video editing, to be sure. Great timing, and Ollie, too.
In the 1990's I think it was even more mystical and remote as a Canadian from the other end of the country... Now everyone knows 😊
1:14 That is my Dad! No joke.
That's rad. How did skiing factor in to the development of Whistler?
best video ever bro
Shit I might have to get up to whistler this summer
is @8:18 sun valley Idaho?
Oh I saw this at the village like a week ago
Thank you!
Golly, that sounds like the mountain bike capital of the world
Purely amazing rider
2003 norco vps fest was peak
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Love the place but can’t afford to make it out there let alone the ticket prices
Watched this at Whistler Olympic plaza
Its funny seeing the ifht films people referincing their own channel lol
1:49 did he just do a whip??
Just the thought of whistler being a dump for locals garbage is insane.
Great video masta biker 🚴🚴🚴
All those lines without mentioning Whismas?!
wtf Peter M is some sort of famous whistler man now???
whismas
My first trip was 2011ish i kept riding on the a-line, it felt like the alpines!
There’s no such thing as a Styrofoam helmet, cup or plate. Prove me wrong.
Hit like if you saw the blowup doll.
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