Weekend riding...

...Fernie and Rossland.

Thursday night drive to Fernie, arrival in thunderstorm and completely booked town. Only a little expedia system error luck got us in the second last room in town after plenty trials at various locations.

Friday slow start after late arrival and awesome breakfast. Rode plenty of fin trails; roots, hyper vent, south castle and a bit higher then down, hyper vent up again, cross over on extension and over to the classic trails at Ridgemont. Great day! Craig and I waited for Ryan to arrive for the rest of the trip; killed the time with an iceberg in the river.

Drive out to Rossland was easy and event free, besides it Craig who ate his double icecream like a toddler, while telling the best stories of the divide ride. Stories never get boring and with icecream all around it added to the moment.

Bryan and Tara invited us to stay with them, best bed and breakfast and dinner and guide etc in town! So nice for Toby as well. Saturday morning we started with seven summitt trail. Better than I had expected, awesome steady climb up to some amazing exposed views. Great fun and and down. And end with more fun down. During this ride we also met Shasta who turned out to be Mickey who also turned out to be new in town last night and up for adoption. He got lost hiking with his foster family and hooked up with a few cyclemeisters who we happend to run into.
We finished our ride and drove up to meet them and bring Mickey to town. He looked very tired after a probably 30km day for him. Great bike dog about Tobys size if anyone is looking. And if it wasnt for the dog Ryan would have never seen his special bottle again. What's the chance; lost on the trail and found by Mickeys foster parents.

After lunch, longer lunch, we shuttles up and did a trail called something dead, and since Toby was left behind earlier it was his treat. Super fun trail.

Sunday we started from the house and rode some great trails; I totally am terrible with names but ill remember them in my mind. Great climbs and even greater down. First major down was nice and technical, second a bit more flow. Just a great morning of riding. Then another long lunch and off for another great ride. This time we shuttled Tara up and let her ride ahead while we drove truck down and road back up and then down. Guess this all used to be called Oasis. Thouh the first section was new and due to logging hooked into Oasis only by a superfast road section so dogs and Tara got to do the first bit then they took truck and met us at bottom of the Oasis. A highspeed flowy bring out the smiles kinda trail. All the way down to Columbia. A minor hike a bike after a missed turn but other than that a flawless weekend of guiding by Bryan, beats searching for good trails.

Monday was a day in the car but with a pit stop in Blairmore for quick spin and coffee (thanks troy, def no need for Tims). Home in time to unpack and pack for site.

Happy Riding!