I would like to win the trip because i havnt ridden a real Downhill bike trail ive only ridden hiking trails that are not as fun. i really would like to ride in any place in canada but ive been looking at whistler for a while now. this would be great because my friend and i dont have the money to take a trip to canada to go biking so im taking this oppertunity to have a free trip and have an experience of a lifetime for the both of us. please take a moment to consider me and my friend.
-colton muelrath

When I go up to Whistler, I rough it. Hot tubs, warm beds and cable television are out of the budget. A lonely uncomfortable sleep in my car, or a long drive home are the two options I’m generally met with. If I were to win this opportunity to stay at the Bear Back Biking Chalet with a friend, it may ruin me for future trips, but it would be an amazing opportunity to wind down after a long day in the bike park. Following it with another day of shredding pretty much makes Gravity and Bear Back Biking’s “Whistler Weekend” giveaway the most desirable thing around.

Having my local resort of Mt. Washington getting well over 600 cm of snow base this past ski season (and the most in the world a few years back), me and my friends are facing a long and painful wait to see or bike park open, and the snow just won’t for the love of god melt. I deserve to win this trip to Whistler because i think as fellow riders would agree, being stuck inside with nowhere else to ride absolutely sucks. No license or car, an empty wallet and stubborn parents. The pain is just getting too much. I would give up the next 50 Christmas’ and all my Thanksgiving turkey to be able to go to Whistler for a week to shred with a bud, and get off this darn computer, wipe the cobwebs off my bike and have an epic time. Please Gravity, let the suffering stop!!

I have never been to whistler, or evne any part in canada and i cant afford to go up there either. the best i can do as far as trails and dirtjumping are local hiking trails and local little dirt jumps, i mean how much fun is that? Not too much let me tell you. Our bikes dont even get used much as we dont ride downhill all that much. If i were to win the trip for me and a friend to whistler we would have the times of our lives riding downhill and even staying and hanging out with new people and making new friends. It would be an experience of a liftime!

You should pick me and my friend Bryce because we are from MD and have never had the chance to experience a place like whistler. I work hard and as much as I can to save money for college and have no vacations planned this summer. I am always respectful, I have been called a mensch twice and I’m not even jewish. I think I’m a pretty good guy and am deserving of this. I watch videos of whistler everyday and dream about charging down it. Also I’m like fully torqued with good karma right now because last night I gave my seat on the metro away like 50 times both to and from DC for the fireworks. btw God just told me to tell you to choose me.. can’t really argue that.

Simply put, I do not get to vacation much and have never been to such a place. A place of epic runs among a grand forest. Led by those that can make be a better rider. Though I feel I am rather an accomplished rider I think nobody else would learn as much as I. Armed with an arsenal of GoPros to share this epic journey, I would show the world this wonderful trip. One of true passion and enjoyment. A trip full if ripping in the brown pow! But such a trip would not be as fun unless you can bring somebody to share it with, a spiritual bonding experience of slicing berms and sailing among the trees of Whistler. Hearing our tires buzz the wooden planks of the hand made features. Bring to the end of a day full of true camaraderie as we look over and edit video, tell wild stories of the jump that got away. To give this “Whistler Weekend” to such a sole would make his lifetime that much more fulfilled and his passion for riding just that more complete. Making his dream come true!

When I first rode DH off china peak last year I knew that dh was my sport. I olny raced once but riding is Very great fun. If i were able to go to wistler park i’ shred the crap out of wistler. I hope that i win so that I can ride to help future when im 18 i’ll be sponserd P.S im olny 11 and a half

I have never had the opportunity to make a trip to whistler. But that sure doesnt make me less of a rider than anyone else on 2 wheels. I wake up everymorning and watch videos of whistler and all of those beautiful north shore trails. From there it’s now time to get out to the jumps or get out to the local cross country trails, you gotta do with what you got sometimes. If someway and somehow this dream were to come true it would make it a reality to ride some of the worlds best trails, and have a great time with the ladys and gents from Bear Back Biking! A weekend like this would truly make it for me and a friend whom has also never had the chance to make it out to whistler. Remember it’s not about the bike, its about the good times and memories it will bring you. Thanks for checking out my paragraph on why I should win!

I have tried to plan a trip to Whistler with my ridding friends for 5 years now, however there is always something else.
This february I had a son, and money is now very tight. So I still get out to ride all the local trails but I don’t think I will get the chance to ever ride whistler with my friends. let alone stay at such an amazing Chalet like Bear Back Biking.
My son is only 5 months old now and I already have a runner bike for him. maybe someday I will ride whistler with him.

So a buddy of mine got me into downhill mountain biking a few years back in college. Since then I have absolutely grown to love the sport and am always talking with him about how we need to “make a trip to Whistler one day when we can afford to”. Well, having both “grown up” a little, gotten married and working, it has become a lot more difficult to make it happen. Although I may be able to in the not to distant future, my buddy recently started a non-profit business and just couldn’t afford to do it. It would be an amazing way to pay him back for introducing me to such an amazing sport if I were to tell him that we had a gnarly place to stay and an opportunity to ride with the amazing riders from Gravity and Bear Back Biking. That just might be the push that we need to make this a routine trip like we once said we would.

Would love the opportunity for a friend and I to come ride Whistler. We had been planning a trip here with a few friends this summer before life got in the way and the trip fell apart. Gas prices aren’t dropping any quicker for the two of us to make the 24 hour drive to get there. Not sure if the car would have made it anyways, but one could only hope. If it doesn’t happen this year, it will happen in the future as Whistler is on the list of “must see” places. Would there be any better way to see it though? Would love to do laps in the park and relax afterwards with a good meal and wake up to do it all over again. A Line is calling our names, would love to make this dream a reality.

Iam a stupid guy from the north of germany , since there is no mountains in my area and
becaus iam that stupid and my gramma is to bad to write a awsome story
i hope i Win !!! for me and my brother thx

Good luck for all you guys

My friends and I love to ride the local trails, but we are starting to out grow them. The closest downhill park to me is over two hours away and costs over $50 for one day. My parents would never pay or drive me there. Not only that, but our local dirtjumps were just wrecked by a bunch of motocross riders and its gonna take a while to return them to their former glory, who knows if the jumps will be wrecked again. I don’t want this to sound like a sob story, but I believe i could really grow as a rider here. I have never been afraid to push my self to try newer harder things, and quite frankly I;m running out of ways to push my self. A weekend in whistler is a dream. I know that I probably won’t win, but It’s worth giving it a shot. I just want to congratulate whoever wins this and hope they have a great time. If I were to win it would be a dream come true. I love the park and I want to just say that the staff does an amazing job of upkeep! Ride on!

-Nathan, 15, Pittsburgh, PA

i would love to have to opportunity to go ride whistler, i live on the rugged coast line of the east coast of newfoundland and always dream of getting the chance to go the other side of the country and shred bike parks. i could get as many runs in a day there as to what i can do in a full season here without any sort of shuttle to the top so i would also progress exponientatly as a rider!

Well, I have never been to Whistler and my family cannot afford it. I love Mountain Biking through my heart, and we spent most my earnings and alot of my dad’s for my new bike (first downhill Mountain bike). It would be an amazing gift if I could get this gift. None my friends really Bike so I guess its just going to be my mom and I. For me, it would be the story I would tell my grandchildren, so amazing that explaining to someone would be impossible.Biking is my true passion and I want to do it all my life. I know a free trip to Whistler is Good to many but to me it is more than any words can describe. If you would do this for me it would be… amazing.

A few years ago, my firend and I went to the only local miniature ski hill for mountain biking. It wasnt anything special in other peoples eyes, but for me it was the funnest single day of my life. I loved trying to go faster and going out of my comfort zone. Unfortunatly they closed the ski hill down in the summer, and now the only place we can ride are some short XC trails. All that goes through my head on most occasions in mountain biking, and how much i want to be on my bike now. I dream about spending a weekend in Whistler, but my parents dont have the time or money to take us. this will be my only chance to go to Whistler for atleast a few years, and i really apreciate this opprotunity.

Thank you
Thomas

i should win this contest because i need to go to whistler, it is a want but a big need just so i and a friend can throw down some British steezyness in big BC plus i have a Scott voltage so it kind of need to go whistler to give it something to do, so just post the tickets to my house,
cheers (ow, i want to see how many bears i can jump over in a day)

I live in the state of ohio… And for those of you who dont know… Its flat, i mean really flat. My buddies and i have been riding DH for about four years now and have been progressing each year. Theres almost nothing near us to ride. The closest bike park is 3 hours away and good ones are 6 hours away. I feel if given the oppritunity to ride whistler we could progress our riding even more… Maybe even decide to move there! So please… Help a couple of guys in one of the flattest states out there get some really shredding in!!!!! Thanks so much

Why should Victor and I win this trip? Out of all the entries you might be receiving and having to read what makes us so special from the rest? Not much really, we’re all coming for the same thing. To shred hard and learn as much as we can from a possible once in a lifetime experience. Okay maybe others get to do this more often, but for my friend and I this is a rarity. We are international students, I from California and him from Mexico. We are often tossed into situations we don’t always like, but biking is what gets us through it all. Riding together makes everything better. The town we live in here in northern Germany has absolutely no trails and the nearest bike park is 3 hours by train and angry bus driver away (Emphasis on angry bus driver). Don’t even get us started on the pricing for transport since we have no access to automobiles. Despite this for the past year we have made several pilgrimages to bike parks no matter the cost (at least once a month excluding the winter). We strive to push one another to go faster and faster making as much progress in the limited space and time we have. God knows these parks need bigger jumps. Thats why I ask you to grant us this opportunity to ride the best park in the world as bros! If you’re not sold yet on granting us this honorable prize then heres my final argument. My friend Victor, the only friend I have in this town who rides Dh/Fr is being forced to move to Moscow in a matter of weeks. Sure I’ll continue riding without him, but honestly, I cannot fathom the thought of attending school let alone hopping on a bike and hitting the parks without my broheim. Words cannot describe how incredible it would be to ride whistler with him. Maybe not this season, but eventually.

If you’ve read this far then thats at least something. Now if you’ll excuse me, I have a window to look out of (into the rain) procrastinating my homework.

Hi I’m George and I’m 15 years old. I should win this once in a lifetime trip, and experience Whistler with its finest because, I live in England and the riding and weather where I live is shit! I need a change and fast, my motivation for this sport that I so dearly love, is slowly slipping away, day by day as we’re in the middle of summer and guess what?? Still rain! Everyday I log onto Pinkbike and sit for hours drooling over videos of people having fun in bike Mekah. ‘If only I lived there or had some money, I could experience heaven’. Also if the world really does end in 2012 there’s no way I’ll get to go to Whistler before it and I get screwed over by enormous waves or gigantic cracks in the floor. Now just give me a chance and you could progress me and my best mates riding so much, show us the times of our lives and give us a memory neither of us would ever forget.
Thank You.

its always been a dream of mine to go to canada, especially to whisler to mountain bike. me and y dad have allways dreamt to go. i love the sound of it from the amazing riding just down to views. its all part of the experience and would be a dream come true to ride there. It would be a fantastic opertunity ofr me and my dad to build skills especially as there are no local trails where i live.

When it comes to going out riding, my dad is my best friend (Flipping fast for a 52 years old!). I have cycled all my life (17 years) (as has my dad), and I properly got into mountain biking around 3 years ago on a weekend away with my mum at Whinlatter forest in the Lake District. I had never really been mountain biking properly, but as soon as we had done the first run (blue), I felt so exhilarated that I insisted we both did one of the red runs – I was hooked. I loved it.

The only problem with my enthusiasm was that I never really had the bike to take me where I wanted to go. And coming from a family of six, who all do music (I play the cello, double bass, piano, a little guitar and I sing), I wasn’t about to be treated to a spanking new bike! I therefore taught myself how to maintain, build and fix bikes. I started off fixing my own, then I got a little more in detail, and as I built up the confidence, I started to fix my friends bikes too. Eventually, I was able to maintain, fix and build bikes to a professional standard, so I set up my own website. I earned enough money eventually to buy myself a proper bike! I was so over the moon with my new (second hand) bike (Giant NRS XTC) that I just wanted to ride all the time! I got more confident riding that I would start to ride bigger and more technical trails, until eventually I was riding full DH and FR trails on a bike with 80mm travel! I kept raising money however until eventually, I was offered a swap (along with some cash) from one of my customers for a Downhill bike…I almost collapsed with joy!

I accepted the swap, and have ever since been building the bike up gradually, and now it is a fully capable DH rig. I built my mum a 29er, which she loves and my dad a trail bike, which he blasts down the local trails with! We travel around to the local trials and to a few trail centers in the UK (which I have on occasion persuaded the whole family to come to!). However, I am constantly shouting my dad to “come and have a look at this” or “check this out!” on the computer. Although sometimes reluctant, he always comes and sits with me as we scroll though the thousands of videos on the internet of incredible riders usually cycling around the US and Canada (and usually Whistler). He said that he would love to take me, but the family funds just don’t allow it. This would be a dream come true for me and my dad, and I can’t think of a better way to spend some quality time with my dad than having a great time in Whistler on the weekend of a lifetime!

A’right, I’m will, I’m 16 and I reckon a trip to Canada would be bloody good. I’ll keep away from the usual sob story, ‘I don’t have any where to ride/ I don’t have time’ blah blah blah. (I hope that doesn’t make me sound like a cynical arse). However a trip to Canada would be a mint experience. To try out world renowned trails, experience the different styles of riding and meet a ton of others all interested in a similar sport would be top notch. Riding has become a pretty big obsession of mine I do it as often as I can, I spend most of my money on it, I even got a job in the bike trade! Just to experience the different culture and attitudes toward riding would be pretty cool and to ride the trails that’d be absolutely fantastic. To end up going to whistler would be bloody brilliant, I mean who wouldn’t want to go? If sincerely hope you will take my entry into consideration, I would be very grateful Cheers, Will.

After several years of riding my neighborhood trails on my hardtail, I wanted to step it up and buy a downhill bike. Unfortunately, I had a big crash skiing and I injured my knee. I tore 2 ligaments in my right knee, and that meant I had to have surgery and a 6 months rehab. I couldn’t ride for last summer at all, and I wasn’t able to work and get money to buy a new bike. I began building my own downhill trail on a hill near my home but it was frustrating me because I couldn’t ride it. But after 6 months of rehab, another ligament tear, another surgery and more months of rehab, I was finally able to buy my new bike and ride my little trail. Winning this trip would be a reward for all those ruined months of doing rehab insted of riding, and a perfect excuse to ride with one of y friends.

Why should I be the one? For strictly selfish reasons (that doesn’t really set me apart, right?). I’ve become a father a couple of years ago and riding has become a luxury I find time for less and less often. Navigating the tough economy has put an even deeper strain on my ability to find the time. I’ve gone from having a nice fleet of bikes to just having one. The vacations we take are now baby friendly or involve family visits. A trip to Whistler is something I won’t be able to pull off for years; unless I win a contest like this one! I would love to travel to Whistler and effectively travel back in time to my younger days when I had time to just ride! Cheers.