Big White is AWESOME! Miking.

Miking... Yes it is my new word, I figured the English language was lacking in verbs so I added one, all by myself.

To Mike - is to combine hiking and mountain biking together... or... push your bike up the hill and ride down. 

The map (my Miking trail from Friday) shows I started at High Forest, I did start at the Timbers but only logged on at... The loop you can see is the first part of the cut mountain bike trail (Thanks to Gavin I think) - it is quite a technical trail (I was scared, cos I'm not very good) - and then back up again towards the top of the Ridge Rocket.

The sun was shining, the temp perfect, I rode past the lake at the bottom of Powder Chair - and I took it easy, lowest gear and pushing when it was steep - Miking, it was great!

People have mentioned bear sightings but I have probably been up the top 40 times this summer and not a sign - no scat, no prints, nothing. I did have a bit of a scare though.

I was riding just on Serwa's just getting to the flattish bit, close to the top of the Ridge. I have trance music in my ears, I have been riding for probably an hour and I am at peace with the trail - my dog, Hobbes the big dude is up ahead, and everything is good... Suddenly, in my peripheral vision I see brown and big, and next to me... moving - and did I say big... My heart did that little skip - you know the one, 'uh oh, I am going to fall off this cliff' before I realized it was Yoda and Lucy (two of the Globe dogs). 

Yoda comes hiking around the mountain with me regularly, Lucy once or twice - but I had been out for over an hour - god knows how they found me or how they got there. They came back with me, and we went to Globe for coffee, (they choose water) it was all cool.

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Brief one today - I am off Miking again - you should try it.

Just a quick addition, I took my wife Miking today, not quite as successful, she pushed her bike to the top... through Snowpines up to the bottom of the powder chair then up Meadowlark to Serwa's and finally to the top of the Ridge Rocket. Great! Then she got a puncture... so she pushed her bike back down to Happy Valley... 

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