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What's the go to blue/red trails for a one day session?
Cheers in advance!
Well, to start off, Whistler (and everywhere else in North America) uses Green > Blue > Black > Double Black as progressively harder trail ratings; some "pro only" trails are sometimes shown as red on some maps and are typically much harder/higher consequence.
WBP also differentiates flow and tech trails within the colour scale.
Are you just intending to ride the park or any of the valley trails as well? How old/capable are the kids? Are they better/fitter riders than you/your missus? 😉
From memory depending on their skill level all the green trails are tame and rollable. Blue flows should be ok but the more popular ones will be littered with braking bumps. The smaller interlinking trails like Samurai Pizza Cat, Devils Club, Ninja Cougar, WND etc are a lot of fun too.
Lots of nice stuff around outside the bike park too.
As has been said, do you mean in the park or in the surrounding area? I would say stick to blue's as they're more comparable to our trail centre reds.
Some of the lifts are being upgraded this summer.
https://m.pinkbike.com/news/video--the-ultimate-guide-to-whistler-bike-park-2023.html
Some of the blues are very quick. There were plenty of parents riding behind their kids when I was there. That's where I would be unless my kids were faster than me
Green is like a UK blue, with the exception of ez does it which is a true green, blue is like a UK red.
Del Boca vista and around are great greens, b line, crank it up are great jump blues, ho chi Minh (and the ones above and below) are great tech blues.
Lost Lake is pretty family friendly too, either a loop of the trails around the area - almost all Blue IIRC - or if you've got a map (trailforks works well out there) some could ride the fire roads while others tackle the singletrack and you'd still meet up often enough. And if they've had enough riding they can go and sit by/in the lake.
There is so much variety it is hard to recommend without knowing what works for you and the family.
It’s a lot of vertical if you’re not used to it, so even an ‘easy’ blue can take it out of you. But if you’ve spent weeks riding Canada then you’ll want the tough stuff.
They do have a good progression chart to show what’s a relatively easy and relatively difficult, based on flow (jumps and berms) and technical (rocks and drops).
Here’s the link. Progression matrix is left hand side of page 2,
I’d give that a look. Alternatively, give us a bit more of an idea of the sorts of riding that you’re after and I’m sure the good folk here can point you at something appropriate.
It's my 16yo daughter, has raced xc and fearless plus my lazy 12 yo son who doesn't jump.
I'd like flow without too much tech, it's near the start of a long holiday so more to say I went there than test myself.
Some great advice so far, cheers!