Whistler's best trails

[xtremerider33]

hey guys im going up to whistler in about 3 days and im going to start riding the exact time it opens and i wanted to know the first trails i should start shreding. I have a hardtail and im just looking for drops, jumps, and wallrides...anyone got any ideas on trails i should start on?

[Marsenault]

"crank it up" sounds like what you want to start on.

[newgirl]

go from crank it up to B line to heart of Darkness.

[Cooper]

Yeah, try crank it up to b line to heart of darkness. Or even into the boneyard if you are feeling adventurous. And if you feel like those are too boring or easy, try a lap on upper a-line as its the smoothest of all a-line. But I know a lot of hardtailers that rip all the trails!

[Schleyer]

Goats gully, D1 or something
just look for pro lines



id start on easy does it if i were you :/

[parksvilleguy]

i love when people say pro lines, well im not pro and i ride those trails on a hardtail too, yea the crank it up bline and HofD is a good first run then aline to crabapple back into aline, or course gotta rip dirty merchant, then on the weekend ride garbanzo to freight train, d1, duff man. theres also 2 other wallride around the one down easy does it past the dirt merchant entrance and then if u continue down that trail and take a left onto golden triangle and after a short ride down lower duff man u go almost straight into another big rock wallride. for drop ride lower joyride, schleyer, crack addict, and clown shoes. also detroit rock city is fun too

[HIBuLlitT]

got my ass handed to me on Crack addict a couple of years ago...it was so
rutted, nosed the landing on that like 2' drop off the wood and was about to go
over the bars when a very hard, inflexible tree stopped me cold.

Didn't they rename DRC? Real fun, love that off camber shale section...
Shleyer's fun, just what out for chipmunks (or squirels not sure the diff), they
like to run out in front of you as your going off the drops (scared the bejesus
out of me).

[Cooper]

Didn't they rename DRC?

rock city wasnt renamed I dont think, its just referred to "nationals" a lot of the time

[seand]

DRC is still DRC and is still full of awesomeness...lots of awesomeness.

[FlipFantasia]

DRC is still DRC and is still full of awesomeness...lots of awesomeness.

it's still the nationals course to a lot of folk though too.....

[FlipFantasia]

it's still the nationals course to a lot of folk though too.....

and yes, oodles of awesomeness......the better choice rather than clownshoes....

[Rampage14]

i love when people say pro lines, well im not pro and i ride those trails on a hardtail too, yea the crank it up bline and HofD is a good first run then aline to crabapple back into aline, or course gotta rip dirty merchant, then on the weekend ride garbanzo to freight train, d1, duff man. theres also 2 other wallride around the one down easy does it past the dirt merchant entrance and then if u continue down that trail and take a left onto golden triangle and after a short ride down lower duff man u go almost straight into another big rock wallride. for drop ride lower joyride, schleyer, crack addict, and clown shoes. also detroit rock city is fun too

Its called the Pro line for Tom Pro the top bike park guy.

[Cooper]

Its called the Pro line for Tom Pro the top bike park guy.

I always though it was park of the trail difficulty rating system. The red triangle/pro line was the level above a double black, meaning there are no ride arounds and difficult unavoidable stunts. Guess I'm wrong.

[bryce mcl]

I always though it was park of the trail difficulty rating system. The red triangle/pro line was the level above a double black, meaning there are no ride arounds and difficult unavoidable stunts. Guess I'm wrong.
I thought the exact same thing:werd:

[HIBuLlitT]

I always though it was park of the trail difficulty rating system. The red triangle/pro line was the level above a double black, meaning there are no ride arounds and difficult unavoidable stunts. Guess I'm wrong.

me 3

[Cooper]

Just found out, on the new bike park maps, it says D1 for example, is a Pro Line, meaning most difficult on the trail rating system and should be ridden by experts only.
There you have it. Its not meaning Tom Pro, its meaning hardest level.

[bryce mcl]

Just found out, on the new bike park maps, it says D1 for example, is a Pro Line, meaning most difficult on the trail rating system and should be ridden by experts only.
There you have it. Its not meaning Tom Pro, its meaning hardest level.
I knew it!:clap:

[Cooper]

I knew it!:clap:

wooot!

[rad]

I found A-line was more painful on a hardtail than the hardest stuff on Garbo. Hardtails are perfect for crank it up though.

[Cooper]

I found A-line was more painful on a hardtail than the hardest stuff on Garbo. Hardtails are perfect for crank it up though.

depends when in the season for A-line. Crank it up always though!

[KenN]

rock city wasnt renamed I dont think, its just referred to "nationals" a lot of the time

It was originally called National Downhill and later renamed Detroit Rock City. Shortened to just Rock City because many (myself included) thought Detroit Rock City was too wordy and just sounds stoopid.

I have a theory that the rename from ND was because it was too easy to confuse with Whistler Downhill (which still has that name).

Kn.

[Cooper]

It was originally called National Downhill and later renamed Detroit Rock City. Shortened to just Rock City because many (myself included) thought Detroit Rock City was too wordy and just sounds stoopid.

I have a theory that the rename from ND was because it was too easy to confuse with Whistler Downhill (which still has that name).

Kn.

makes sense

[Straw]

Aline's fun on a ht if you can make tranny all the time. If you can, you can be faster than guys on big bikes!

I would pass people on big bikes near the end of my second season there...they didn't like it!

Then I got a big bike and got slow again.

[seand]

it's still the nationals course to a lot of folk though too.....

I still find myself calling it nationals which confuses lots of people..

"what have you been riding?"
"schleyer to nationals"
"where is nationals?"
"its now called detroit rock city"
"*blank stare" okay"

and yes, oodles of awesomeness......the better choice rather than clownshoes....

For stupid fast fun, drop into lower whis dh, air out the fall away, and try and hold a nice drift into DRC. The speed you have coming out of that next berm will send you flying into the nationals..errr drc face :) Follow as normal and when you reach the coaster on cshoes, take that line all the way down. Nice mixture of everything in one run. Of course, you miss that awesome chundery rock section after you pop in/out of the trees in LWDH..but for some variety it isn't too bad :)

To be able to ride OS->GG->InDeep->Fatcrobat->Too Tight (get some pedaling in while catching up or waiting for your buds to catch up) -> Schleyer/Joyride->UWDH->DRC->lower cshoes/joyride/drc->monkey hand->GLC....now that makes waiting all this snow worth it!!

[FlipFantasia]

I still find myself calling it nationals which confuses lots of people..

"what have you been riding?"
"schleyer to nationals"
"where is nationals?"
"its now called detroit rock city"
"*blank stare" okay"



For stupid fast fun, drop into lower whis dh, air out the fall away, and try and hold a nice drift into DRC. The speed you have coming out of that next berm will send you flying into the nationals..errr drc face :) Follow as normal and when you reach the coaster on cshoes, take that line all the way down. Nice mixture of everything in one run. Of course, you miss that awesome chundery rock section after you pop in/out of the trees in LWDH..but for some variety it isn't too bad :)

To be able to ride OS->GG->InDeep->Fatcrobat->Too Tight (get some pedaling in while catching up or waiting for your buds to catch up) -> Schleyer/Joyride->UWDH->DRC->lower cshoes/joyride/drc->monkey hand->GLC....now that makes waiting all this snow worth it!!

personally I like lwd to nd to lower joyride.....mmmmmmmm yeah!

[seand]

I have given up on lower joyride. Every time I wander down that trail there is someone sprawled out on the wooden landing. So to avoid potential carnage, I just trek down cshoes or finish up on nd/drc :)

im hoping giving garbo an extra week before wandering up there is enough time...last weekend was such a slopfest on lower, I couldn't even begin to picture what upper would be like!