Silver Star bike park ready for summer – Okanagan
Silver Star Mountain Resort is now open to mountain bikers for an additional yr of path using, and riders are stoked to be again.
“The paths have been actually good contemplating simply the quantity of moisture and snow that’s up there,” stated path rider Tim Pietrman.
“They’ve accomplished a terrific job.”
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Canada’s second largest bike park acquired an unusually excessive quantity of precipitation this winter and spring, which suggests it took a full crew effort from the crew at Silver Star to open on time.
“They obtained straight right down to it and truthfully that they had a whole lot of enjoyable doing it,” defined Silver Star advertising supervisor Doug Chimuk.
“They constructed an enormous snow tunnel on the high for the friends to trip by way of. Folks had been using in between massive banks of snow for some time – its melting down very nice and that moisture actually helps with the paths this early within the season.”
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These having fun with the resort’s pathways this summer season may even discover a number of new additions.
“Electrical avenue is a brand new e-bike accessible path, to allow them to trip up from the underside of the elevate now to Paradise after which entry the higher mountain or again into the village, in order that’s new,” described Chimuk.
“We’ve obtained a pair different trails on the go which are new high to backside, and we’ll be sharing extra about these quickly.”
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Silver Star boasts over 125 kilometres of cross-country and downhill trails in addition to 300 jumps. Should you’re planning on hitting the terrain anytime quickly, you’ll need to plan forward.
“I used to be truly shocked by how full the car parking zone is, as a result of final time I used to be right here it was form of only a few riders,” stated John Dawson, a mountain biker visiting from the decrease mainland.
There will likely be no scarcity of enjoyable occasions on the resort this summer season. The Crankworkx Bike Fest runs from July 28-31, adopted by the Summer time Wine Competition from Aug. 11-14 and the Craft Beer and Cider Competition on Sept. 10.
Silver Star will likely be open to mountain bikers from now till across the finish of September.
