Jimbo Allan just pointed me to this piece that Queenstown newspaper Mountain Scene did on the whole Skyline gondola access issue. They talk to the man. Read full story below. READ MORE
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QUEENTSTOWN GONDOLA UPDATE
TRACK DAY TUESDAY (ON A WEDNESDAY AGAIN)
Queenstown, idyllic.
This week there’s no excuse for a late Track Day Tuesday, apart from the fact I was actually out riding the track and attempting to take some photos and remember what tracks were what.
So with out further ado Track Day Tuesday (on a Wednesday again!) this week it’s not just one track but a general area, the often overlooked ‘Skyline Hill’, Queenstown. READ MORE
TURD SANDWICH
The boys from Vertigo in Queenstown along with their band of merry men, now dubbed ‘the Alliance’, have been busy on the tools lately. They’ve been putting in some new trails up on Skyline Hill that adds to the already awesome network of trails up there.
Paul Angus put together this clip of ‘Turd Sandwich’ which looks like a whole lot of fun!
KELLY MCGARRY BACKFLIPS DREAMTRACK
Oh yeah! Aaron Lutze has been sitting on this clip for a while but it’s finally found a home on Bikemag.com. Check it out as Kelly busts out arguably one of the raddest backflips ever caught on film!
GOT BACK?
Got Back? Kelly McGarry does. He’d been talking about flipping the last double on BIG-Dream-Track all week. On my last day and my last hour in Queenstown he was ready, I asked him to hit the Mini-Dream flip one last time (above) and on landing clean, his rear shock blew up! I jumped in the car to catch my plane and just outside of Geraldine got a text from Luke McCombie: “He just did it!”. As soon as Lutze is ready to post the video we’ll have it.
