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I need to ride some more very soon. Hopefully get a decent amount of riding in before the end of season 🤞

@@Tristan_Proctor_AS hopefully you are healed up now and can take advantage of the best season for riding in my opinion! DM me anytime you want to go for a rip 😜

Thanks for watching!

Thanks Darcy!

Thanks for watching Jordan!

Tried something a little different with this one and started messing with AI voice generation. That is some seriously wild and slightly creepy stuff 😂 just type in what you want to say and pick a voice to say it

@@yycmtbr5087 the community there is legendary!

@@seanisaac4925 thanks a ton Sean!

Thanks james

Thanks a lot for watching!

Working at stepping up my video game. Nathan was also absolutely perfect for this one 👌

Thanks a ton for the kind words!

Thanks for watching James!

@@Tristan_Proctor_AS Thank for putting out awesome content

Stoked to help bring the stoke to your mountain Nathan!

@@huckyeahmtb thanks a ton for the kind words and sub! Slowly working my way up trying to make each video better than the last. Should have a new one coming within a week or two 🤘

@@noeler403 unfortunately it is looking like it will be too little too late for the trails. Thanks for the kind words!

Thanks Andrew! Definitely going to miss this place a lot in the winter

All over southern Alberta

Noice 👌

I think we are all in the same boat. That place was awesome!

As long as it becomes a reality Travis is def going to crush it!

Unfortunately the demand wasn't enough to keep up with the extreme rise of costs

I hope eventually we can get back to riding year round again 🤞

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_AS haha FK yeah 🤘

It is going to be a great album for sure!

@@Tristan_Proctor_AS 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

Honestly, I thought clear cutting was not common practice in North America anymore and that Select Cutting had been adopted. Guess I was wrong though. Might select harvesting be worthwhile as a mutually beneficial compromise?

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 TH-cam turned off the comments, I’m sure those two little shredders would have been stoked to read that

@@Tristan_Proctor_AS 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 TH-cam 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_AS Ohhh, okay, thank you.😀

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