Eagle Ridge - Westwood Plateau Riding Area

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Hey Crash, looks like it's snowing pretty hard up there right now. The 6 O'clock news had an on site report from Cypress bowl and it was really coming down, Eagle Mtn is only a few miles to the east and about the same elevation so it's pretty safe to infer that it's snowing there as well. With respect to the weather it might be a good idea to postpone riding Eagle Ridge until after the Spring Newbie. What do you guys think?

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Crash969

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Ya I think I'll just stick to the island and do some trail clean up on the quad this weekend. Hope the weather is better next weekend. Just made the call to my cuzz they have 5inch's of snow on the hill now!
 
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Yeah, think I'll do the same thing and go help out on the Little Tamahi trail tomorrow. Prolly stay home Sunday, looks like the weather's gonna be crappy.
 
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franhoser

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Come to the tire social. I go every year. It's great. Buy a tire and shoot the sh1t with everyone. Get a free lunch. Etc.
 
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Hey Lev, I just bought new tires a few weeks ago, but shootin into bucket full of sh1t with everybody sounds like fun (as long as it doesn't splatter on ya), and ya can't beat a free lunch (unless ya got some sh1t on yer hands - but they prolly got soap there) so maybe I'll do it. Should I bring my 12 gauge for the sh1t shoot?

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Decided to go for a boot up to Eagle Ridge late this afternoon -- good times! I came across some white stuff that I don't recall seeing a couple weeks ago. I don't know what the landmarks are called, but as you're going up the main trail, you get to a point where there's a makeshift "log bridge" (photo #12) that veers off to the right. I did not take the bridge because it was covered in snow, so I just kept going up. I got to where the road comes to a Y (photo # 15), & could see that neither track (photos #16 & #17) was passable due to snow, so I turned around. I don't remember the boulders being in front of the construction work (photo #5), but maybe they were there before & I just don't remember them?

My legs ached from all the duck-walking I did in the snow :?

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Crash969

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motorambler let me know if you would be in for a ride up that way Saturday afternoon around 2pm or so?
 
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franhoser

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holly crap there's a lot of snow up there now.
 
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franhoser

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Anyone feel like heading up for a few hours tommorrow. start around noon. Meet at Timy's on barnett near falcon.

Art?
 
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franhoser

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sorry 6fiddy, im out for tommorrow. i seem to be having wrenching issues these day's with both bikes.

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motorambler

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That's too bad. I'll be riding up there tomorrow anyway, so if you get your wrenching sorted let me know. If anyone else wants to join post up -- I'm open for the day :)
 
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Was up there again today & was surprised to see that I could make it considerably farther up the mountain. I think a lot of that had to do with the fast melting but more so that the snow had crusted over making riding on it a little easier. I could not make it up the hill (left side) & did not chance the pond crossing since the trail farther upwards was not passable anyways.

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motorambler

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Even less snow up there today. Tons of water runoff everywhere & traffic from quads is allowing us to make it farther up the mountain. I think next week Cypress Lake will be doable :) Who's in?

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motorambler wrote:
Even less snow up there today. Tons of water runoff everywhere & traffic from quads is allowing us to make it farther up the mountain. I think next week Cypress Lake will be doable :) Who's in?
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Maybe...still have some starting issues but Eagle Ridge is as good a place as any to test it and see if it breaks.

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Is there cell service up there? It would sure be nice to find somewhere to ride when I am on call (every second weekend)!! Working sure gets in the way of living!!
 
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I am pretty sure you will have cell coverage as there is a massive cell tower half way up the mountain and the riding is on the south face directly above Coquitlam. I will check next time I amup and see what kind of coverage I get. It is a great place to go for a short getaway and the ride up is technical enough to make it interesting.

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