Trying out the Jordie Lunn Bike Park in Langford, BC

 By Keith and Heather Nicol

We were heading to Victoria for a university reunion on Sunday, Sept 29 and were traveling from the Comox Valley on Saturday, Sept 28.   Enroute we decided to break up the trip with a couple of stops to check out some mountain bike trails that we had heard good things about. First up were the trails at Mount Tzouhalem which is near the community of Maple Bay and the larger community of Duncan. For more info on what we rode there see: https://keithnicol.blogspot.com/2024/10/checking-out-mountain-bike-trails-at.html   From Mount Tzouhalem we headed to the Jordie Lunn Bike Park in Langford. This is relatively new development, opening in 2020 with some new trails added a year later. Jordie Lunn was a local mentor and highly skilled mountain biker who was killed in a bike accident in Mexico in 2019.

                                     Starting down Wildcat- one of the signature trails at the Jordic Lunn Bike Park 

There are not many trails at this bike park—the focus being on developing skills in r through dedicated skills parks with a variety of levels of difficulty. But it does have a signature trail called Wildcat that I was interested in trying out . It is ranked as a blue flow trail and it lives up to its name as it swoops down close to 900 meters with a drop of 90 meters. It is accessed by a series of climbing trails which although they were machine cut still didn’t have the flow and smooth switchbacks of Sobo No Michi at Cumberland where we usually ride. In a couple of sections I had to walk my bike up the trail at Jordie Lunn Bike Park. We certainly be back to try out some of the skills area and to drop into Wildcat again with its raised bridge to start things off-it certainly is a great blue flow trail. For more info check out Trailforks at: https://www.trailforks.com/ and Jordie Lunn Bike Park at https://langford.ca/gravityzone/   

A Skills Park is front and centre of this Bike Park