Waking up on the beach was awesome! After making some coffee and breakfast on my campstove, I rode off to meet up with my friends Brooke and Jason at their campsite back by Buchart Gardens. In the morning we took a super cute ferry ride from Brentwood Bay to Mill Bay. Just a few miles after that, the adventure really started when we made a resident mad because we were looking for a trail cut through. We rerouted and met up with the trail we were looking for behind Shawnigan Lake School (a super fancy private boarding school). We ran into a grounds maintenance tech who warned us that the trails behind the school were pretty gnar. He told us a student had recently jacked a golf cart but crashed it when the trail started because the terrain is rough. We wanted to do dirt, so we sent it. Some of the terrain was technical, but there was also plenty of easy single track too. We got kind of lost and detoured through some crazy trails to avoid private property signs, but eventually trespassed anyway. We had a great time getting lost without cell service, though, and we eventually made our way out onto the Cowichan Lake Trail. Things on the trail were chill at first, but then we ran into serious construction and did some parkour moves through a rubble pit with our packed-down bikes. After that, the trail was the gucciest of gravel, and we flew down it to our campsite. The day’s adventures didn't end there, though. At camp, Jason rock climbed down a cliff to grab water from the river to filter, and we saw Bigfoot. 12/10 day.