CX long adventure ride
I wanted to take a day off and go for a longer ride, so the idea was head out at 4am and ride the Water Valley loop clock wise. I was riding home the night before and ran into Ryan Yung, when told him my plan for Friday he told me that Erik was planning a cx adventure ride as well//
I emailed Erik and agreed on meeting at 9am at the information centre in Bragg Creek (better than my 4am planned...), Pat Dodge, Erik Bakke, and one of his co-workers were there on time.
I had my cx bike ready for the trip, Erik rode his monster cx and the rest just mtb. We rode the gravel rode of Mclean Creek for a long time... at some point turned right at a close gate, were after crossing an old bridge we were able to ride on an old abandoned road. The rode took us to Blue Rock Campground at the end of Turner Valley./ There, we re-filled the water bottles and began the adventure ! we took a single track trail that was barely marked, bushwhack for for almost an hour and rode on single tracks, horse trails, and rocky roads for more that I anticipated.. We passed through a hunting cabin that was built in 1908 and from there we ended up at Tombstone. We were only 20km from the Hwy 66, but to get there we still have to ride down Little Elbow, which in a cx bike, was bit hard.. once we were on paved roads and was starting to feels my hands again and with a second wing I was able to ride back to the car. We rode a total of 123km that day. I drove home were (as usual) the kids were desperately waiting to go camping.. I had a quick shower and headed out to Baff for the weekend. What an adventure ! I love to be able to do this once in a while.
I emailed Erik and agreed on meeting at 9am at the information centre in Bragg Creek (better than my 4am planned...), Pat Dodge, Erik Bakke, and one of his co-workers were there on time.
I had my cx bike ready for the trip, Erik rode his monster cx and the rest just mtb. We rode the gravel rode of Mclean Creek for a long time... at some point turned right at a close gate, were after crossing an old bridge we were able to ride on an old abandoned road. The rode took us to Blue Rock Campground at the end of Turner Valley./ There, we re-filled the water bottles and began the adventure ! we took a single track trail that was barely marked, bushwhack for for almost an hour and rode on single tracks, horse trails, and rocky roads for more that I anticipated.. We passed through a hunting cabin that was built in 1908 and from there we ended up at Tombstone. We were only 20km from the Hwy 66, but to get there we still have to ride down Little Elbow, which in a cx bike, was bit hard.. once we were on paved roads and was starting to feels my hands again and with a second wing I was able to ride back to the car. We rode a total of 123km that day. I drove home were (as usual) the kids were desperately waiting to go camping.. I had a quick shower and headed out to Baff for the weekend. What an adventure ! I love to be able to do this once in a while.
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