Kamloops Bike Community Mourns The Farm, a Treasured Riding Spot & Home Burned in Wildfire
The Farm was never just a riding spot. It was that, of course, but to call it just a riding spot wouldn't do it justice. The Farm was home to so much of the Kamloops bike scene and is the setting for many of the iconic videos we know and love, but even more so, it was home to Ron Penney and Krys Green, who built the 45-acre piece of land into the bike park it became.
Ron and Krys created The Farm out of a lifelong love for the sport. It was their own, it was epic, and it became a sanctuary for countless mountain bikers over the years. It's special in that it flew under the radar, but while you may not have heard of it, you've no doubt seen it in segments like 'Ashes to Agassiz' and 'Follow Me.'
Ron and Krys made The Farm their home, and in doing so, created a home for countless mountain bikers.
Yesterday, The Farm was completely destroyed by a wildfire. Along with the devastation for Ron, Krys, and their immediate community, a generation of mountain bikers lost a place that inspired them and helped create some of the best riders out there today.
The fire.
Matt Hunter has set up a GoFundMe to help Ron and Krys recover from this massive loss.
 | This was not only a place that created everlasting memories for those who rode there and inspired countless mountain bikers around the world; it was home to Ron and Krys. |
| I’ve never been to a place that made laughing, smiling, and hootin’ and hollerin’ more contagious. I’ve probably smiled more out there than every other moment in my life combined. These two people have dedicated a huge portion of their lives to something that benefited others way more than it could ever benefit them. |
| A lot of memories and good times had at this place, lost for words with Ron and Krys loss yesterday. |
| This is no longer home for Ron and Kris. Recent wild fires in BC have devastated their home and everything the farm has become to them and an iconic gift of theirs to the sport of mtb. |
All of us at Pinkbike send our condolences to Ron, Krys, and everyone else who loved The Farm so much.
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If this is Shimano silently putting their money where their mouth is, huge props to them.
Hell name one species of anything that has gone extinct in the last 20 years that can be directly related to the climate...
I wish you knew how to read and do basic search engine. Seems like you putting on your blinders and so am I. Nothing is in danger. Global warming isn't real.
Bramble Island Melomys got done in by climate change
www.greenpeace.org/usa/ending-the-climate-crisis/exxon-and-the-oil-industry-knew-about-climate-change/exxons-climate-denial-history-a-timeline
www.ehp.qld.gov.au/wildlife/threatened-species/endangered/endangered-animals/bramble_cay_melomys.html
This species was only found on Bramble Cay, a small vegetated coral cay (a reef island composed of coral rubble and sand) roughly 340 m long by 150 m wide, but subject to seasonal changes in both shape and size,
and
Being confined to a single, very small, isolated location, the species was susceptible to a range of threats. It appeared to be inbred, an intrinsic problem that raised doubts about the long term viability of the population.
and
Certainly, anecdotal reports indicate at least some individuals were killed by domestic dogs that were released onto the island from visiting boats, but also that the species was hunted by indigenous people who visited from PNG on a sporadic basis.
but..
Available evidence indicates that the anthropogenic climate change-induced impacts of sea-level rise, …….
Well, obviously….couldn’t have been anything else
For those that enjoy watching the world burn, I hope you truly see how catastrophic these wild fires are, in the US, BC, Greece, etc. Things are different, things are changing, the planet is heating up. Everyday we are seeing more evidence of a shift in our climate, and the outcomes are hitting closer to home; like the farm burning down. Read a book or look outside!
When the governments and climate scientists stop "revising" past data to fit their narrative (continously making past temperatures colder) , maybe we might find out what is really happening and why....right now it is all speculation.
To fight "climate change", Germany wants to cut down 1000s of acres of forest to put up 100s of wind turbines (each turbine pad requires 3500 TONS of concrete)...is that good for the environment??
"Estimates for the prehistoric areas of California burned per year are several times the areas burned
today by wild and prescribed fires. The exclusion (sic "supression") of fires from wildlands has led to extensive fuel buildup
and large, damaging wildfires"
"Over the years, more money, equipment, and human resources were put
into the effort to suppress wildfires, with apparent success. In the meantime, fuels were accumulating in the
wildlands and vegetation changes were taking place. Eventually, the effect of suppression led to a point
where fires occurring under severe fire weather conditions in the accumulated fuels were uncontrollable.
Today, although most wildfires are still controlled at a small size by initial attack, some wildfires occurring
under severe conditions are controlled after weather or fuel conditions change. These fires do most of the
damage."
“Renewable” energies are not really renewable when they require non-renewable resources to manufacture, not to mention extremely destructive effects. “Green” technology is a scam, but collective self-delusion doesn’t permit us seeing it for what it is.
Indeed, almost everyone living in North America, myself included, is taking more than they should and causing a disproportionate amount of destruction.
I guess it shows you don't live carbon net zero by using only renewable energy, driving an electric car, heating your home only by geothermal, and not flying on airplanes.
All the manufacturing and consumption that an American partakes in involves emission of CO2. Yet these emissions are not captured in your CO2 statistics.
Why should the externalized costs not be considered? Totally ridiculous and clearly delusional. Wake up!
You should learn about “green technology” before commenting on it as if you know something.
Of course, this is Pinkbike on the Internet. Not exactly a bastion of wisdom and clear thinking here.
The US accounts for 15%, China for 30% (a good amount of that directly related to the production of things we in the US consume), and India is next at 7%. If we cut our emissions 50% we'd still produce as much as India, who have 2.5 billion people living there. I also dont understand what it means to say "Middle East" and "Africa" are big producers, as if all the different countries that comprise those regions somehow coordinate their carbon policies in lock step.
There's also a difference between pollution and carbon emissions. You are correct that most of the US is much cleaner in terms of pollutants than all of those places. But when it comes to global warming we are mostly concerned with CO2 and methane. If you roll those two together to get an idea of who is contributing to global warming, congrats to US, we still come in second: www.worlddata.info/greenhouse-gas-by-country.php
What I think you are getting at in a roundabout way is that it seems unfair to punish developing nations for being late to the party in terms of leveraging the cheap energy of fossil fuels for their development. Thats true, but also kind of a distraction. The climate IS changing. Humans ARE causing it. Those nations do not produce enough greenhouse gasses nor have the GDP to effect the kind of impact that the US and China can. You can point fingers all you want, but the US is one of only a few nations with both the GHC output AND wealth to effect change.
So I'm not sure what your arguments really boil down to here, beyond spiderman meme finger pointing.
I mean literally my friends PhD was on this. Another of my good friends works on this stuff at NOAA, so we've discussed it a lot over beer. Even one of my exes was doing her PhD on the impact of anthroprogenic climate change.
"Even if human-induced climate exists" is the equivalent of some random dude in jeans under the pads and chest protector they rented at the base of the hill riding up and yelling at you to "lean back over the big drops."
No trends in Hurricanes:
climatlas.com/tropical
No "accelerating" sea level rise...it is rising at a steady pace (3mm/yr) since the Little Ice Age:
www.climate.gov/sites/default/files/DatasetGallery_global-mean-sea-level_thumb_16x9.jpg
In 1988, numerous Democratic Senators and "experts" claimed that the global temperature anomaly would climb by about 1.4 Degrees C by year 2021 from 1986 levels based on a NASA GISS climate model unless emissions were immediately reduced. UAH satellite measurements of global temperature which commenced in 1979 show that the global temperature anomaly has only increased since these hearings by 0.49 Degrees C by year 2021 nearly 3 times less than the flawed speculation at these hearings...
There is a LOT of money involved in climate science...people will go to great lengths to protect their paycheck.
Does anyone recall the "experts" telling us that COVID couldnt have possibly come from a lab and that anyone saying it did was a conspiracy theorist?
Until you all have drastically changed your lifestyles to become carbon neutral by solely using renewable energy in their homes, heat homes using renewable energy, drive electric cars, not flying on airplanes, you should not be criticizing anybody else. It is like a smoker who criticizes all the smokers around them because they are making it dangerous around them because of all their second hand smoke. Completely hypocritical. Talk is cheap. Do something.
I'm not sure what you're trying to get at with "no trends in hurricanes." There is a prediction that hurricanes will get more intense, not necessarily more numerous, and while that one site says they arent, a more comprehensive literature review by NOAA says there is non-definitive evidence they are. www.gfdl.noaa.gov/global-warming-and-hurricanes But its not like the effects of climate change are limited to hurricane intensity. How about drought conditions in the west?
Also, you say that sea level rise should be "accelerating", but 1) global GHC are rising linearly (public.wmo.int/en/media/press-release/greenhouse-gas-levels-atmosphere-reach-new-record) and 2) why would you necessarily expect sea level rise to "accelerate" when it is impacted by lots of different factors, such as increased floatation of land as ice weight is reduced? royalsociety.org/topics-policy/projects/climate-change-evidence-causes/question-14
Further, sea ice loss is also linear, which simply shows that things are continuing to get worse. nsidc.org/arcticseaicenews
So again, I'm not really sure why either of those bits of data somehow magically refutes the fact that humans are warming the planet. What IS interesting is that you think there is more money to be made by scientists showing lots of data demonstrating the impact of climate change, versus energy companies misleading the public on whether climate change is real while acknowledging it and planning for it in their boardrooms.
*eyeball looking sideways emoji*
www.scientificamerican.com/article/exxon-knew-about-climate-change-almost-40-years-ago
No till farming and cover crops appears to be our best solution for recapturing the huge amount of carbon that has been pumped into the atmosphere.
The delusion lies in the following:
Many delusional people in “developed” nations, usually labeled as “liberal democracies”, feel that they are somehow doing more than people in other countries, that they have less responsibility. The delusional think they can consume their way to a solution.
Solar panels and electric cars are not clean energy. The pollution (not only carbon emissions) and land devastation required for our “clean technology” is immense but is never considered. These delusional people don’t understand that installing solar panels and buying a Tesla actually makes things worse, not better.
Everything any human consumes in any industrialized society makes things worse, right down to our food.
The delusion is even more sickening because people in the US and Canada think their environment is clean due to their robust laws and ingenuity. The reality is that the natural environment is clean in the US/Canada because the pollution has mostly been exported to other parts of the planet.
Individuals do have some responsibility in this, but governments and corporations also share in the responsibility.
Anyway, facts are boring!
Clearly it’s not obvious, so I’ll have to spell it out for you. To get to net zero you need to do two things:
1) stop breeding
2) commit suicide
Let's show them what the Riding community is about!
www.gofundme.com/f/friends-of-the-farm-helping-out?utm_campaign=p_cp+share-sheet&utm_medium=copy_link_all&utm_source=customer
www.gofundme.com/f/friends-of-the-farm-helping-out?utm_campaign=p_cp+share-sheet&utm_medium=copy_link_all&utm_source=customer
www.gofundme.com/f/friends-of-the-farm-helping-out?utm_campaign=p_cp+share-sheet&utm_medium=copy_link_all&utm_source=customer
There was something truly magical about seeing The Farm being fully sent by the pros in riding movies, and then logging in to PinkBike and seeing homemade videos of everyday guys riding there too - having a great time with their mates, pushing themselves to do jumps and stunts they'd never done before
I hope death need not be the end
We’re born looking like our parent, we die looking like our choices.
www.gofundme.com/f/friends-of-the-farm-helping-out/donate
Be safe.
Come visit us in the east coast even if it's not the best.
Sorry PB just realized I was using you...