Rilor - Kootenay Wilderness Mountain Biking

Knolly Podium – RW Shred Destroyer

admin — Sat, 22 May 2010 15:05:25 +0000

Was up till Midnight with the awesome Loc Dogs Dude and Leeroy from the Sacred Ride Bike Shop in Nelson building up my brand new Knolly Podium:

The Podium is an 8.75″ travel fully engineered spectacle of metal madness, I’m super amped to be riding a Knolly again this season. The Podium is considered to be a full on DH rig so perhaps not the most well rounded, but for full on Kootenay singletrack bombing this is the ‘One.’

Rilor Wilderness aims to offer the best to our clients in terms of trails, food, service. And we expect the best in our gear: www.knollybikes.com

Big THANKS to Chris and Noel @ Knolly, Tyler @ Sram, Mike @ NRG, Ian @ Chromag, and Mike @ Spank……..owe you guys beers a plenty at Crankworx.

Ahous Bay Spring Relax Session

admin — Fri, 14 May 2010 16:23:25 +0000

We went on a quick little trip to Ahous Bay, near Tofino, BC. Took the opportunity for a relaxing beach camping session between jobs and before full trail building and riding season. Can’t wait to be committed full time to trails.

Eryn skinning a rabbit we caught.

Making the biggest fire possible is basically all I do when I hit the West Coast. We saw some grey whales blowing about 100m off the beach, and caught an epic sunset:

We caught weather that is not all that common for this time of year: hot, sunny, warm. I got a sunburn, of course.

We felt lucky to be there, with the whole beach all to ourselves. Now the fun is over and it’s all about building bike trails, ha ha.

Premium Cedar

admin — Fri, 14 May 2010 16:08:03 +0000

Had to look long and far for cedar like this:

But we found it, 38′ across, minimal center rot.

Brought our slabber alaskan mill…………………………

And got six 8.5 foot, 38″ across by 4″ slabs out of our log.

What are we going to do with this wood? Is it even mountain bike related? Stay tuned……………..

Prospero Pottery

admin — Fri, 14 May 2010 16:07:31 +0000

The Rilor Wilderness Chef, Eryn Prospero, is also a full time production potter. She sells her wares all over town, at festivals, and at various galleries in Western Canada. Eryn also teaches classes at the Kootenay School of the Arts, as well as Kid’s Camps in the summer time. She has a blog of her own, check it out at www.prosperopottery.wordpress.com.

A teapot, for your favorite hot drink.

Mug. Eryn will be producing some Rilor Wilderness mugs moderately soon……..this is the kootenays remember.

Pottery Plethora!

Eryn with her little Potters at the Kootenay School of the Arts in Nelson.

After 4,000 vertical feet of pristine singletrack, one of Eryn’s home made bread BLT’s on her hand made plates is just right.

Beautiful Nelson Area Slideshow by Kari Medig

admin — Sat, 01 May 2010 21:11:52 +0000

Check it out here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ISbCkD6Ntgg

Many of the featured trails are ridden on our trips! Kari Medig is a local award winning photographer, check out his site here: www.karimedigphoto.com

RW’s CHAINSAW Collection!

admin — Wed, 21 Apr 2010 02:29:06 +0000

I finally got the chainsaw I’ve been craving to round out my quiver of saws, the Stihl 260. It’s a small saw with lots of power for it’s weight I’ll be using for hard to access bits of singletrack that require a long hike in. I fancy myself a fairly fit guy but some of the hike-ins to get to my trails get really tough when I’m loaded down with pack, water, fuel, powersaw, rake, shovel, etc, etc.

Big Saw (Stihl 660) All Purpose Saw (Stihl 460) and little fella (Stihl 260)

Big THANKS to the boys at Mainjet Motorsports (www.mainjet.ca) for all their excellent help over the last several years.

RW Featured in Outside Magazine’s ‘20 Best Trips of the Year’

admin — Tue, 20 Apr 2010 21:39:38 +0000

Check it out here: best-adventure-trips-of-the-year-canada.html

Pretty happy to be featured as one of Outside Magazine’s 20 Best Trips, big thanks to Outside for choosing us and we’ll make sure to deliver the trail goods to our guests, mission objective Numero Uno!

RW Guides Evan Schwartz and Riley McIntosh Riding Bikes!!

admin — Sat, 17 Apr 2010 22:41:42 +0000

Professional Photographer John Gibson, www.gibsonpictures.com, came out to Rilor Wilderness to shoot some photos of Guides Evan Schwartz and Riley McIntosh mining all the fresh soil and sharp corners to be had within a ten kilometer radius of the Lodge, here are some selects:

Evan Schwartz on another of Riley’s curvy bridges.

Riley McIntosh attempting to look fast……………..perhaps needing a lesson on how to ’scrub’ however.

A particularly fun corner with some baby Douglas Fir trees to brush your arms against. The weather was turning against us at this point……….

Our Motto: ‘We used to build really high skinny bridges and fall off them all the time and bruise our knees and bend our bikes……………now we cruise on super low bridges and pretend they are high off the ground, and escape unscathed to ride more trails the next day.’

Why is Evan riding without a shirt on? Guess it’s the new thing………

Happy trails!

Rilor Wilderness Interview @ Ridemonkey.com Interview Part 2

admin — Sat, 17 Apr 2010 22:27:14 +0000

Rilor Wilderness Interview Part 2

Rilor Wilderness Interview @ RideMonkey.com Part 1

admin — Sat, 17 Apr 2010 22:23:53 +0000

Rilor Wilderness Interview Part 1