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Ensuring the long term development and maintenance of a valuable community asset to be enjoyed by all styles and levels of riders.
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Black Betty Secrets

Posted 29 August 2007 - 10:57am by Krista Turcasso

Last night we went to ride one of our usual routes, up Dem Bones and Mushroom Head and then down to the Power Line to Black Betty. We were fortunate to meet up with Doug Clapp at Pete's Bench - one of Black Betty's trail builders - and he offered to give us a tour. Little did we know that on previous rides we were missing out on half of the ride! We started by heading down Phat Bastard and then crossing over to Black Betty and into the dark woods, and then back over and around on trails I never knew existed. Thanks Doug, it's always great to learn knew routes especially from the trail builder!

Subaru/IMBA Trail Care Crew re-route lower sidewinder

Posted 14 August 2007 - 12:08pm by admin

This past weekend the International Mountain Bike Association (IMBA), in partnership with Subaru and the Fernie Mountain Bike Club were in Fernie to talk trails, teach proper trailbuilding technique, and most importantly work on a re-route on one of the worst sections of trails around Fernie, lower sidewinder.

On Saturday morning 30 participants took part in a 4 hour classroom session on how to build “sustainable” trails, which means that the trail will last a very long time and require minimal maintenance. This helps reduce trail damage, protects the environment, and enhances visitor enjoyment.

Hyper Ventilation opened for business

Posted 22 July 2007 - 10:43pm by Doug

Many of you have ridden bits and parts of Hyper Ventilation as the trail building was happening. But now at last the trail has been completed. The trail is about 2km long (actually 1.93 km if ya want to get anal ;) ) It starts about 100 meters below the high point of Roots. The trail for the most part is between a 10 to 15% grade. Near the beginning there are a couple of short sections that hit close to 22%...but they are short. The trail is 98% ridable uphill.

There are a couple of options:

1. Ride Hyper Ventilation to the summit 4965 feet and descend down Hyper Extension and then continue down Roots Extension to the Coal Creek bridge.

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Dirty Diggs Ride #1

Posted 24 June 2007 - 1:26pm by BMC

Riding Ridgemont is great for an after-work kick, but if you want to experience an alpine adventure, Morrissey Ridge is where to go.
With that in mind, we set out on an adventure.
The road was well. After reaching the summit in our trusty blue Ram, we looked out on a grand scene. the wind was howling off the ridgeline somethin' fierce and didn't let up. We found Dirty Diggs after glissading some distance along the ridge in a few feet of snow. finding the trailhead was ok, make sure you go north along the ridge from the towers for a few minutes. dropping in, I had no braking power and a chewed back wheel, lost it and my bike went darting off down the draw. Luckily my bro Scotty thought quick and used his own bike to stop the runaway Kona.

Trail Maintenance Report

Posted 20 June 2007 - 11:04pm by Bernie

Had a good turnout with 6 eager trail workers showing up at Fas Gas. We went up to the bottom end of Big Money and finished off the final km of trail. The trail has been worked on for the last year by Mitch and crew. Talk TO Mitch if you want info on why the trail was named Big Money. Big Money starts up by the Watering Hole and exits onto the Ridgemont Road approx. 3 km north of the top end of R trail. Judging by the cheers and smiles from the dozen riders that rode the trail tonight I'm sure it will become one of our favourite trails.

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