While the bikes and yurts are away for another season, Team Boréale is busily planning for the 2011 season!
The overwhelming success of our Ride and Reach yoga and mountain biking retreat with pro rider Ryan Leech has guaranteed we are doing it again next year! We have secured the dates for July 2-8, 2011. 5 days/6 nights of instruction in yoga and mountain biking, riding in some of North America’s most stunning scenery and soaking up the legendary Northern hospitality. All from the comforts of our yurtville! This retreat is limited to 6 participants and is based on double occupancy in our fully furnished yurts.
Our good friend Dan Barham, professional mountain bike photographer (senior photographer for BIKE magazine and Singletrack UK) has joined forces with Team Boréale to do a special sport photography retreat! Have you ever taken a picture of a rider mastering a super steep descent, only to have the photo depict a non-challenging, flat terrain? Dan is here to help! Over the course of 3 days/4 nights, he will lead us through the world of digital mountain bike photography and show how to capture and process that ‘worthy of a frame’ action shot. Each day will be the perfect mixture of riding bikes on endless Yukon singletrack and taking advantage of our midnight sun while learning proper technique for shooting and processing action photos. More details to come soon! If you would like more information, please contact us at .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)
We’re also going to offer special group dates for clubs, large groups of friends etc. Please contact us for more information at .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) or check back at our website soon. And as always, our super popular 3 day/3 night Weekender Special will be offered again all summer!
Enjoy the autumn!
Marsha & Sylvain
The last two days we have been treated to fantastic singletrack for the Adventure Travel Trade Assocation Pre-Summit Adventures. Tracy and Emma from Hub in the Forest based out of Glentress, Scottish Borders have shown us some of the goods here and it has been amazing. Put the 7 Stanes on your list! Yesterday’s break between rides included a visit to a castle built in 1107 and is still in the family and used as a house! Came complete with an original brewery from the 1750’s that puts out some delicious beers.
Tonight we head to Aviemore to start our conference!
Parts of Team Boréale are heading to Scotland to attend the world summit for the Adventure Travel Trade Association which we are members of. It looks to be a great week of meeting new contacts and sharing ideas. We are pretty excited to have the opportunity to participate! Prior to the conference, we were invited to do two separate Scottish mountain bike tours. They seem to have a bit of flavour from each segment of mountain biking, so it should be a great time. Of course, followed by a whiskey tasting!
Yes, we are looking forward to it!
Today Boréale Mountain Biking was hired by the Carcross Tagish First Nation to shuttle and rent bikes for a special ride on the Montana Mountain trail network. Today they were cutting the ribbon on the newest trail, Nares View. This trail is longer and very scenic, overlooking the Nares River. It was built with the intention of being an all inclusive trail, one that riders of all abilities will have a great time riding. I have not yet ridden this trail, so I am very curious to hear the response from today’s group! It is a blue bird day in Carcross, without a breath of wind. The mountains are bright, ranging in colours from bright yellow to a deep brilliant red. Needless to say, this naturally gorgeous part of the world is on full display today. Stunning!
Our last group of riders have headed back to Vancouver after a great 4 days of Yukon riding. The fall colours are amazing right now, making the trails beautiful and the alpine glow. It is pretty spectacular. Once we finish removing yurtville for another season, I will post a few picture highlights of the summer on our facebook page. There are simply too many to go through quickly!
Ride Guide TV was here last summer with Dustan Sept and Ryan Leech to film a Yukon riding episode. After a long wait, it has finally debuted - and it is great! They really captured the essence of the Yukon. Having fun and recreating! Check out the video, pass it along to others to watch. Hopefully we will see you up here next summer!
The sun is setting a bit earlier, the leaves are turning brilliant yellows and reds, and the northern lights are starting to dance above yurtville. Sylvain was able to get a great shot of the main yurt all lit up and cozy, with a band of fluorescent green lighting up the sky above. Pretty cool! http://twitpic.com/2iooxa
We have some cool packages in the works for 2011. Our Ride and Reach retreat with pro rider and extraordinary person Ryan Leech was a huge success this year. So, we are going to run another one next year! Dates are July 3 - 9, 2011. If you are interested, please contact us via .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) for more information. Another package we are pretty excited about is a mountain bike photography learning retreat with one of the best mountain bike photographers in the business, Dan Barham. While the details are still being worked out, generally it will involve you, your camera, Dan’s expertise, wicked riding, yurtville fun and all meals and transport. Pretty sweet! As soon as we figure out details like dates and prices, we will let you know.
We will also be doing a women’s retreat, complete with instruction and fun rides on all the singletrack that flows through southern Yukon. Good times!