ROCKY MOUNTAIN XC SINGLETRACK TOUR: British Columbia
Now with a new itinerary and beautiful new lodges for 2010!
The Rocky Mountains are Canada's most spectacular mountain range, and the perfect backdrop for an incredible mountain bike adventure. This is our most popular trip for good reason: 7 days of blissful singletrack in
the Canadian Rockies (plus 1 travel day), with accommodation at spectacular lodges and additional
activities such as hot springs and optional paragliding. You'll experience the best singletrack the Rockies have to
offer, in places like Fernie, Invermere, Golden and Kananaskis, including the world-renowned
JumpingPound Ridge/Cox Hill ride on the final day, which is guaranteed to stay permanently etched into your
memory!
NEW LODGES for 2010! RAW (Retreat and Wellness) Fernie | Nipika Mountain Resort
Day 1. Arrive Calgary/Fernie
Your guide will meet you at Calgary Airport and drive the group to our lodge in Fernie. This is our base for the next few days of Fernie trail riding. Tonight we'll dine in one of Fernie's excellent restaurants.
Day 2. A first day in Fernie
After a good sleep and hearty breakfast you'll build your bikes and we'll spend the 1st morning working on mountain bike skills with our instrcutors. More advanced riders will work on advanced skills, while less experinced riders will work on intermediate skills. After returning to the lodge for lunch, we'll head up to the Ridgemont area where a huge spiderweb of trails offers up plenty of options for singletrack fun! We'll return to the lodge at around 5:00 pm. Tonight's dinner will be a communal one, as we get to know each other around the kitchen!
Day 3. Fun in Fernie
After breakfast, we'll ride right from our lodge to the skills park for another morning of instruction. After a full morning of skills work, we'll stop for lunch and fuel up for a big afternoon of biking. We'll head out for another crack at the trails of Fernie, then we'll head back to the lodge for a late afternoon drink on the deck before dinner.
Day 4. Even more fun in Fernie
After breakfast at the lodge, we'll have an optional morning ride up Dem Bones or another skills session. After returning to the lodge for lunch, you'll have the rest of the day off to explore the wonderful town of Fernie. There are myriad options for outdoor fun in this recreational paradise, including river tubing, whitewater rafting, horseback riding, chairlift-assisted riding at Fernie Alpine Resort, fly fishing - you name it!
Day 5. Columbia Valley, Radium Hotsprings, and Nipika Mountain Resort
After an early breakfast, we'll hop in the van for the 1-hour drive to Kimberley, home to some incredible singletrack trails in the Columbia Valley. This classic cross-country jaunt takes us along the valley between the Rocky Mountains and the Purcell Range, with spectacular views in all directions. After the ride, we'll drive up the Rocky Mountain Trench to soak in Radium Hot Springs, then finish up our drive at Nipika Mountain Resort, a spectacular lodge just outside of Kootenay National Park. Dinner and our beautiful remote cabins will be waiting for us.
Day 6. The Remote Rocky Mountains
Nipika Mountain Resort is tucked into the spectacular Rocky Mountains on the southwest corner of Kootenay National Park, part of the chain of National Parks that includes world-famous Banff and Jasper. The scenery is breathtaking, as is the riding. The folks at Nipika have been hard at work carving beautiful singletrack into the mountainsides for our riding pleasure. We'll enjoy a full day of playing at our private singletrack paradise, before returning to the resort for an evening campfire and dinner
Day 7. Banff National Park and Canmore, Alberta
In the morning we'll hop in the van for a short and spectacular drive through Kootenay National Park, stopping in the town of Banff briefly to get our tourist kicks (Banff is a must-see on any traveler's list!). We'll check in to our hotel in Canmore, then spend the rest of the day enjoying the huge network of singletrack surrounding town, under the shadow of giant mountains such as the Three Sisters and Ha Ling Peak. Tonight we'll stay at a hotel in Canmore and enjoy our final dinner and post-ride celebration together.
Day 8. The best %*#@^!# trail ever !!!
The 'pot of gold' ride, this is the incredible, amazing, scintillating and stunning Jumping Pound / Cox Hill Ride. Rated in several guidebooks as one of the best rides in the whole of North America, this incredible trail will live on in your dreams for years after you ride it! Imagine a challenging, switchbacking, singletrack climb up the side of a mountain, followed by lunch at the top. We then do a ridge ride at 2185 metres (7000-ft) surrounded by the massive Rocky Mountains. But, that's not all there's more! Another challenging singletrack climb, then the icing on the cake, 7 kilometres of the most incredibly sweet singletrack, and almost 930 metres (3000-ft) of vertical descent. The standard response after riding this piece of singletrack heaven is '...that was the best %*#@^!# trail I have ever ridden!' - see for yourself! We finish riding in the early afternoon and with huge grins fixed on our faces and a sad tear in our eye, we'll hop in the van for a quick ride back to Calgary. Tonight you stay in a Calgary hotel (we can also drop you off at the airport) and celebrate the best riding you've ever likely experienced, drink a beer (or two) with your new friends and relive the many, many highlights of a simply fantastic trip.
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