The Coal Disco trail work is now finished. There now is 9 kms of uninterrupted single track including 3 new bridges. Materials, steel stringers and cedar decking were flown in by Bighorn Helicopters 2 weeks ago.

This section of trail will be used on day 1 of the 2010 Transrockies. This is 100% classic x-county riding.

From Fernie start on the Old Stumpy Trail and take a right at the yellow coal discovery trail sign. Keep following the yellow signs most junctions are marked. About 6 km out there the new section takes off to the right ( this junction is not signed yet, if you miss it and you hit the powerline, turn around and back track a couple hundred meters ) The new single track ends on the Ridgemont road 9km from town. Check it out!

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.