Maggie is such a great person to be out on the trails with. That smile never turns off when she is out riding. Thanks a ton for the kind words!

Thanks a ton for the kind words! You should definitely create videos. It takes a while to learn but can lead to some pretty cool opportunities eventually. I'll do my best to remember to post my reels over here

Bryant is a wild man behind bars! Thanks a ton!

The wrong guy is going fast again

Who needs brakes?

There are almost always beer waiting haha. Thanks a lot James

@@Tristan_Proctor haha FK yeah 🤘

It is going to be a great album for sure!

@@Tristan_Proctor for sure 🤘

And if we don't do anything, we'll have none...

People are trying to get something up and running once again. Hopefully they can make it happen. Until then during the summer months chestermere has a great park to get acquainted with that new bike

Changing the way our forests are managed across the province is a noble cause but far too big of a cause to be addressed in this very localized fight that will be decided within two years. Our focus is on saving the hundreds of jobs, various outdoor activities and the natural escape that this area provides. That said, we do care deeply for nature and want to do our part to limit our effect on it. Allowing 1.7 million residents to connect with nature endears them to and inspires them to join broader fights to better manage our land. As well, the cumulative stress on this area with recreation and logging is not sustainable. There's over 7.5 Million dollars and 100,000 volunteer hours invested towards recreation in the area. It only makes sense to protect the recreation and limit the cumulative effects, such as this massive logging plan on top of the same area. The area is tiny in the big picture, representing roughly 1200ha when the province has 22.5 million hectares of managed forest. Allowing this localized area to be a dedicated land use for recreation would relieve a lot of the consumptive recreation pressure on the rest of the land that you are concerned about.

@@shaunpeter8498 This mindset makes a lot of sense but it isn't playing out in the way we hoped it would. Recreation is causing the development of sometimes smaller areas, but often areas that are in critical locations of habitat for migratory species, especially in the American West/Southwest. Also, mountainbiking is one of the least likely forms of human powered recreation to activate conservation mindset stewardship. As we keep seeing in the US with social/illicit trail use and construction (ppl making their own trails). This video highlights that with the idea that logging elsewhere, expanding the impact of operations to an untouched environment, would be better, without referencing articles supporting that opinion. One mountain biker I talked to before the USFS denied a trails system they were working on getting approval for said it best "Yeah you know you could probably have a pretty good time mountain biking on the moon." You don't need to see elk or deer while mountain-biking to have a good time, so why care? If you want an effective approach to keep logging at bay within a recreation area, approach it scientifically. Logging within a recreation area increases wildlife view-shed and decreases wildlife refuge from the humans using the trails. This is backed up by peer reviewed literature. Peer review is the only way to have substantive activism be effective in these scenarios, at least down in the US.

There are 22.5 Million Hectares of harvestable forest outside of the parks across Alberta. This whole area represents roughly 1200ha with 738ha proposed for harvest. Exchanging a tiny slice of land to protect a very localized area for the 1.7 million residents of the Calgary region to connect with nature, is the goal. There's been over $7.5 Million and 100,000 volunteer hours invested into creating this recreation area and the cumulative stress of adding a large harvest plan, combined with the fact that it's located in our headwaters, makes this area far less logical to harvest than others. Fighting to better manage the 22.5 Million hectares of forest outside of the parks is a noble cause but not one that we will be able to resolve before the area is set to be harvested in 2 years. Love your passion to save the land but please understand that fighting to protect this area does not promote further clearcut logging in the province, it only removes it from this tiny pristine and valued recreation area.

Thanks a lot! Make sure to head over to the grow kananskis website to learn more and see what can be done to be heard

Thanks Rory! Looking forward to getting some laps in this weekend 🤘

Hopefully the trails can manage to stay in their current state 🤞

I’ve heard there is hope of getting something going again by winter 2026. Hopefully it works out so we can ride all year once again. The community of this place is unbelievable for sure!

Thanks James! Hopefully a lot more epic videos this summer….. if it ever arrives

Thank you so much for reaching out with the kind feedback! Hoping the quality of the content gets a bit better with each video that comes out. Glad you enjoyed Born To Ride. A shame KZbin turned off the comments, I’m sure those two little shredders would have been stoked to read that

@@Tristan_Proctor Of course! Though, do you know you can turn on comments in the upload/listing settings? I assume so, because I am able to comment here, but is it just the case that kids are shown, so the comments are turned off?

@@jacobhelbling8186 the comments are on in KZbin studio but I believe all videos they determine are made for kids get comments shut off just in case the comment section goes off the rails I assume

@@Tristan_Proctor Ohhh, okay, thank you.😀

Thanks a ton for watching and the kind words! Darcy can definitely make good use out of millennium skate park

It would be pretty awesome if they would go for it. It seems these days winsport is moving further away from biking for some reason, likely liability. I heard that unless you are in a program through winsport you can't even ride the new jumps they built a few years ago. But it would be a lot cooler if they did go all in on biking

That is brutal timing! Hopefully a new bike park will take its place, and by then the outdoor spots should be ready to ride for the summer 👍

It is pretty brutal that so many bike parks and action sport training facilities can't get enough support to survive. Hopefully some day this will change

It’s honestly our only option …

There was no holding back for these guys at the AB bike show 🤘🏼

Right on Bruuthuuur!!!!

Yeah at the BMO centre and Calgary bike show last weekend

Thanks a lot Darcy, I appreciate it!

The front flip was pretty epic!

Thanks for the invite Mark! It was fun filming with you guys 🙌🏻

That they will, definitely going to make winters way too long

For the amount of time you could spend riding here it was quite a bit cheaper than any downhill park at 100 a month

@@Tristan_Proctor month pass is $245, 10x pass is $300

I would definitely recommend making the trip sooner than later, sadly they have announced the last day of operations as April 30

@@Tristan_Proctor damn 😞well I gotta round up the boys to shred that park then!

Sorry to hear this. I am close to joyride 150 in Ontario and I ride there every Thursday night all winter. I’d be so bummed if they had to close.

It will definitely make the winters a lot longer and colder without a warm place to ride

Almost impossible when you need so much space to operate a facility like this one sadly

Definitly helps enhance the story 👌

I know Ryan isn't fully on board with crowd funding but if some one were to take charge and make it happen I would definitely throw that link up everywhere! Thanks a lot Andrew

Thank you!

Nice, a bunch of awesome people!

Hopefully it doesn't happen. B-Line is an incredible spot to go hang out with friends and meet new people