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Burgers and Fries, on a mountain bike ๐๐After we did the first climber+biker shot I knew I wanted to do it again but bigger. I'd been eyeing up the Burgers and Fries climb for a couple years but wasn't sure if it was going to be possible. After a lot of thought I called up my friend Adam so he could belay me down the face and I could take a proper look. We found a very narrow path in between two climbing anchors and multiple cracks I thought would maybe work. The next step was to bring up my carpenter friend Matthew to see if he could build a transition for the runout. With this area being so popular for climbing we knew we'd have to build it in such a way that we didn't effect the route at all. My friend Anton had sketched up a diagram for radius so we had a rough Idea how big and long we needed to go. After doing some math and taking the final laser measurements we had what we needed. We prepped the ramp so we could hike it in early the next day. The night before the weather turned and we got our first rain fall in weeks. I was really worried after all this planning that it was going to be too wet and we missed our weather window. Fortunately the next morning the skies cleared and with the help of more friends (Blair, Andrew and Jordan) we carried the ramp in and started to assemble. The process took longer than expected and right when we were finishing up 50 climbers showed up. Luckily they were all stoked and we finished the ramp. Adam and Pik started climbing the route beside where I was riding and I got my bike. Standing at the top I was more nervous then I'd ever been to do a feature. I'd told everyone previously that there was a good chance I'd walk away if I didn't feel 100% confident I could do it. I was hoping for no crowd but with all my friends and the climbers there was close to 50 people at the bottom. After a few very deep breathes I got on the Pedals and rolled down one of the most well known rock climbing routes in Squamish. The transition was perfect and the feeling of stopping smoothly on the runout is hard to put in words. Thank you so much to everyone who helped out to make this happen and believed in me. Until the next one!
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