New 1000m descent BC Trail Feels Like a Movie – Riding _First Blood #mountainbiking #remymetailler #gopro

Wow Unreal Look how steep that mountain is. I feel like I'm in Champerey What's up everybody welcome back to my channel Today's video is going to be pretty rad because yesterday my buddy Dean Tennant and I rode down a brand new 1,000 meter descent. It's here in Hobbes BC The trail is called First Blood and there has been a ton of hype about it Our expectations were super high. So I'm not gonna spoil the video All I can tell you is that definitely watch it till the end Mountain biking in Hobbes was never really in the map. I've driven here countless of time I've seen those steep beautiful mountains and always wonder why there is not really any riding here But things are about to change because the tourism board here in Hobbes as well as the community has been pushing really hard To have this exceptional trail as well as some others. So I think the future is really bright in Hobbes. Let's shred It's pretty steep your brakes are gonna get hot Probably get some brake fade. I'm gonna call them Paul Yeah, you remember Paul eh? Chevy, you excited to ride? Okay, let's see what the hype is about Hey Mike, why is this trail called First Blood by the way? Have you seen the first Rambo movie with Sylvester Stallone called First Blood? Yeah. Yeah, it was filmed here in Hope on the way Yeah, it's also the favorite beer of the trail crew last summer from the local brewery. Nice Okay, buddy first blood trail a thousand meter of elevation in Hobbes BC Here we go Nice Reminds me of the dirt in Whistler Oh it's sick Wow, that was a lot of work for the builders Sick wow sleeper here. Yeah, that's that's really cool It's a good use of the elevation Wow, oh dude How good is that? Oh? That was sick, man. Wow like It was so much work for the builders to make that bench cut You can just tell the train was so hard to build it. Yeah, that's what Mike said It's just like it's so steep here. You can't actually make an easy Blue flow trail like it has to be a single black or double black. Yeah Part two nice. Oh, yeah That's so sick, so woodwork is epic Oh I miss this one. I Was riding a bit close Yeah, I was too close. I didn't see the skinny I actually thought that was a Just a plank of wood like left over Let's take a break. Oops, sorry I Got splashed in the face. So is the GoPro still clean? It is actually. Yeah, my face isn't but Wow That's cool. What a trail Okay back on track. I was gonna open the line as we mentioned the trail is still in in construction Obviously for the ground opening everything will be completely free Yeah, it's not an easy trail but There is also no Proper big moves on it, which makes it pretty approachable for most people Wow the woodwork pretty I Can't imagine how many hours Went into that All by hands Pretty tight here Wow Yeah Dude that was so sick All that woodwork like they managed to make a Terrain that seems like unrideable Actually flow. Yeah You can like once you know the trail like even without knowing like if you look far far enough ahead you can like pump into those compression and there's very limited Pedaling. Yeah It's been really fun. I think it's tough to ride any new trail new but I think we're finding some flow in it And once you get to like know this trail, you could really flow it. Yeah, and I mean Whether you know the trail or not like looking ready ski I was behind you and you went on the left as kind of a little leap And I wasn't looking right enough, but I thought I could jump and then I see the rake. This is a rake. I Was like, oh, why are you not jumping? Yeah, it looked like it was gonna be a nice jump when it's done. Yeah, it's gonna be cool Whoa, that was a rake This is sick Yeah, dude Wow Big shout out to all the builders cuz this is One of the toughest built I've ever seen Look how steep that mountain is And we are Just can't believe what we're riding today It's like driving through power up last year. I Was kind of picturing a trail that could look like this and now Having this like this dream a reality is amazing. I feel like I'm in Champerey Unreal Wow So Mike told us that our brakes we're gonna start smelting And they do Because I think we are breaking a lot Yeah, I think Jin is having too much fun. It doesn't want to stop No, you're good you can continue just have fun I'm enjoying it a lot. So And I feel like we flow really nicely Yeah, I did So I peak How's that? Just sweeping turns down like steep loamy old growth like we drop so much elevation that was nuts and I was told at some point we could see we could see that river and Mike mentioned that there is a split and we can hike and We can access to like a nice waterfall. So on the next lap, we should go and have a look. Yeah, definitely sounds good back on track we gave The old little answer a bit of a rest When I ride like steep trail like this my heart rate usually stays really low unless I'm really pushing But my hands start to give up before anything else So I feel like my shoulder on my back. My legs don't even have time to get tired because my hands give up first That was a bit of a feel of squamish right here The top reminded me of Whistler with the vegetation the dirt and this a little bit more Squamish just because we dropped some elevation Wow, I need to remember to breathe in order to get more oxygen into my tiny arms I'm glad you took a break That's hard on the old forearms. Yeah, honestly like I Have the perfect setup for arm pumps like I've got the one of v2 bar. This is actually the 50 millimeter bar I've been playing with and I think I really like it on my spin drift puts me higher on a trail is this tip It's really nice As Dominion a for 200 millimeter disc. I mean those are incredible like that lever is so light so much power modulation and the grip air gun GDH and also What is this that's a coil I've been playing with a DVO coil shock just to try to get a bit a Bit more of a supple feel of the top and so far. I like it Okay, I anticipated being the last section of the trail And even this section of trail would have been very difficult to build I was looking left because that might have been the trail to the waterfall Wow I'm not talking much because I'm really enjoying that And I think here behind your computer you are as well. So I'll leave you in silence Wow So leave me in In the comment below what you think of this because my mind is absolutely blown Hey, buddy Why a good dog? dude Absolutely unreal nice like incredible like Way past my expectation and my expectation. We are pretty high with all the hype, but this was insane. Thank you so much Makes my day Wow. Thank you guys Hey Chevy show me your tattoo Nice he's a good builder too. He's a great builder Mike thanks a lot for two things first of all the shuttle because I would have been a big pedal But also all your trail work. So now what is the story behind first blood how everything came along? well, my son and I were doing lots of mountain biking and he was always wanting me to Take him down the valley to better mountain and that to do shuttle laps And I was like, why should we do that when we have these beautiful mountains here? so I approached the Fraser Valley Mountain Bike Association me and a couple friends and We've got touch with Mike Woods great guy and he helped us getting the grant money and doing all the advocacy as well as with Cascade community forest they were tremendous and helping us get this project going and so you got the grants and then Which trail building company helped you to design and work on the trail first journey trails put in a master plan and Program to build here and They did an amazing job Obviously, it's very tough building here and really steep. Yeah, it's a lot of traversing and some big rocks That's pretty wise. This trail is, you know a single black or double black diamond trail It's because of the nature of the terrain like even if you wanted to make a blue flow trail You probably couldn't write very difficult to build a blue or green here for sure And also like as you are mentioning earlier like there are some tourism studies that say that advanced mountain biker are more likely to travel to destination than Intermediate or beginner mountain biker so it's pretty a good way to grow the community with like more core mountain biking at first and Then once this community of mountain biking here gets bigger then build more You know blue Green Easier trail I guess to to appeal to the masses That's definitely the goal to get more people riding here and more people stopping Yeah, definitely because you probably saw like your entire life here like people coming from the interior of BC going towards Vancouver, Whistler and the contrary people from Vancouver going towards the interior of BC and no one used to stop here but I think this is a this is about to change the thing and make hop like Mandatory stop for you know any mountain bike passionate and now just before we go for another lap How many years that took from having the idea to having the trail open? it's been about eight years of planning and Getting all the right Stones in place and yeah, we're glad it's done Well, thanks a lot for that and now let's go and reap a second lap Okay, first blood of BC second lap this time I'm gonna leave I hope you enjoyed it a big shout out to Mike as well as tourism up for supporting this project It was truly incredible. It's pretty simple You need to come to hop and ride this trail just the way it rides how long it is how beautiful the terrain is It's really a mercy as always if you want to support the channel simply subscribe Give me a like a comment and check out the links down below There's also a bunch of discount you can save some money and that support the channel as well. See you next week