ULTIMATE BC - XC SINGLETRACK trip: British Columbia
If your passion is singletrack, this 100% off-road route is impossible to beat! Our exceptional itinerary includes world-famous locations - places featured in so many inspiring bike magazines and films, such as Fernie, Golden, Revelstoke, Nelson, Kananaskis and Rossland, the mountain bike capital of Canada. There are flowing trails, rooty trails, steeps and ridges to ride, coupled with awesome views, barbeques, hot springs and the exceptional Banff National Park. Using a mixture of lodges and hotels, you'll experience the real BC bike scene and be blown away by the quality of the riding. The final day's ride at Jumping Pound/Cox Hill will be permanently etched in your memory - and that's guaranteed. This fantastic journey through Canada's wilderness represents the zenith of current mountain bike riding, set within stunning Rocky Mountain scenery.
The trip also includes 2 mornings of skills instruction in Fernie, with an optional 3rd morning: we'll spend the first 2 mornings working on MTB skills with our certified instructors, then head back to our lodge for lunch on the deck. After lunch, we'll have a full afternoon of riding on the massive trail network of Fernie.
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. Rest Day 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. Rubberheads and Smugglers
After a scenic 4-hour drive through Kootenay Pass, we arrive at the town of Rossland. A myriad of shuttle opportunities (using our van) will allow us to do up to 7 trails in this mountain bike paradise
Day 6. Seven Summits
Seven Summits is one of the best trails in Canada, and has recently been voted one of the 'Top 10 trails in the world.' The trail is an epic - up to 8 hours - and, like the name suggests, we visit 7 mountain tops in the Rossland area. This is alpine singletrack at its absolute best!
Day 7. Rest Day in the Kootenays
Situated in the Selkirk Mountains, on the shores of Kootenay Lake and overlooking Kokanee Glacier, Nelson is one of the prettiest towns in all of British Columbia. We'll spend the morning enjoying the sights and sounds of Nelson and have lunch in town before heading to Ainsworth Hot Springs
Day 8. Sweet Slocan Singletrack
Situated deep in the Slocan Valley, New Denver is the jewel of the Kootenays: a charming mountain town surrounded by massive peaks, on the shore of a spectacular lake. We'll spend the day exploring these trails before driving to our lodge in Revelstoke.
Day 9. Keystone Standard Basin
It's time to tackle another epic: the Keystone Standard Basin ride in Revelstoke. This incredible ride is an hour's drive into the backcountry north of Revelstoke, alongside Lake Revelstoke. The ride itself is 6 hours of sheer alpine bliss: buffed singletrack and jaw-dropping scenery. After the ride, we'll head back to our lodge for a BBQ dinner.
Day 10. Revelstoke riding/Roger's Pass
The singletrack on Mt. Macpherson is everything an avid mountain biker could want: challenging climbs, fun downhills, and a huge network to satisfy all levels. After the morning's ride, we'll hop in the van for the 90-minute drive to Golden via spectacular Roger's Pass and the Illicilaweat Glacier. We'll spend the next 2 nights at our deluxe lodge in the mountains.
Day 11. Canyons and Campfires
Today we ride in Golden on the 'Moonraker' trails. These smooth trails leave right from the campsite and feature spectacular 2000-ft-deep canyon scenery and challenging climbs.
Day 12. Golden grins
Definitely a big-grin day with some major vertical descent and technical delights on offer! We'll have breakfast at the camp, load our gear and bikes and then drive to the summit of 'Mount Seven', Golden's premier ride, which rears 1300 metres (4000-ft) up above the Columbia Valley. When we're done here we head into Golden for lunch and load up the van for the drive to Kananaskis. We take time out en route with a stopover in the beautiful and world-famous town of Banff.
Day 13. 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! 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 we stay in a Calgary hotel and celebrate the best riding we've ever likely experienced, drink a beer (or two) with our new friends and relive the many, many highlights of a simply fantastic trip.
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