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You can't ride up it!

the working man's gagger

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pretty much in sparwood.
the shuttle road turns into a hike-a-bike before you reach any kind of trail, don't even try and find it without someone who's been there before.

hike-a-bike'ers are rewarded by smooth, fast, ridgeline singletrack, until you're almost at the bottom and there's no trail any more. this is where you choose between bombing the powerline road or freeriding towards a super slash filled clearcut.

48 hours

singletrack from the landing with the 50 footer down to river road
some bridges over mud

Broken Hip

How to find it

This is more of a connector than a ride in itself. If you come out of Eric's, Splitting Bears or Hessian onto the Ridgemont Road - head back up the road to about 200m uphill of where Eric's Trail hits the Ridgemont Road. On the left, dropping into the trees you will find Broken Hip.

The trail

Despite the rather frightening name, this trail is a fun way to head down to Coal Creek. Watch out for a logging road straight through the middle of it, which is a recent "addition". If you go flying onto this the name of the trail might become unfortunately accurate...

Black Betty

How to find it

Black Betty is one of the downs accessed off Phat Bastard. The last section of Phat Bastard, where the switchbacks end and it becomes a serious uphill grunt is also Black Betty. If you head down from the powerline, going down Phat Bastard, you come to a trail junction where PB heads left and BB heads right. This is about 400m from the powerline. Go right to ride down Black Betty. Kicks you out on Burma Road in West Fernie.

The trail

This is a great down, as you head into the thick forest halfway down it feels like someone just switched all the lights off. Some steeper sections. For a cautious rider, they may prefer to ride down Phat Bastard.

South Castle

How to find it

Head up Hyperventilation, and the the Castle Rocks trail. Once you get to the final ridge to climb to the summit of Castle Mountain you will see a sign to South Castle. Turn right and head down from here.

The trail

It starts off steep and loose, and you will want to take it easy for the first little bit. This then ends dropping you out on a flowy section of trail that rolls down with a drop on your left. This is a great fun section where you can let 'er rip. The trail then feeds into a more classic windy singletrack in the trees section that is just awesome. It kicks out onto River Road, and you head straight across River Road and the trail carries on with more fantastic singletrack, across a bridge and finally out onto Cokato Road..

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