Revelstoke Mountain Biking in August – Crowbar
Aug 19 2011
Revelstoke – Move over Iron Horse its the Bicycles Time to Shine!
Three days of riding in Revelstoke
Local Revy Riding
A six hour drive East on Hwy 1 gets you to the railway town Revelstoke. You
may have heard of the new ski area that opened in 2008 that made the small
town boom. What you may not know is that this area has some great mountain
biking and a growing mountain bike community.
The Revelstoke Cycling Association started in 1994 to create still non-existent
Urban bike routes. Since then they put on cycling events in the Mount Macpherson
ski area and previously in the Mt Mackenzie area until it was taken over by
Revelstoke Mountain Resort. Another freeride area Boulder Mountain had 40km
of trails that were impacted by logging. The club had a resurgence of members
and volunteers that didn’t like what they saw happen on Boulder mountain. To
prevent it from happening again the club gained more members from a wider cycling
background and created a strong mountain bike
community.
Since then the club has been active in obtaining funding from Columbia Basin
Trust ( CBT), Columbia Shuswap Regional District ( CRSRD), Ministry of Forest
Fire Crews and dedicated volunteers to work on the Martha Creek trail as well
as to create a new alpine trail on Frisby Ridge.
The 12.9km Frisby Ridge trail is newest Alpine Epic trail in BC that is machine
built and accessible to riders of all levels. A great initiative that will
give ever lasting value to the town, tourism and the mountain bike community.
Enough history, how about the riding. Wait, first we stop at the Bakery for
donuts and breakfast!
Chalet Bakery has been running in Revelstoke for many years. It is a standard
stop for Cream Horns, Cookies lunch and breakfast.
After fueling up we hooked up with Brendan from Flowt Bikes and Skis. He
was kind enough to show us a trail on Mt. Mackenzie.
Crowbar.
Lars
After the ride we hung out in Revy for awhile and then had dinner at The Woolsey
Creek Bistro. If you’re looking for some fine food Sylvie at has what you need!
Then it was back to the Wadey campground to relax under the stars.
Useful links:
- Chalet Bakery (Revelstoke
– this alone is worth the trip) - General guide
to riding in the Kootenays – Tourism BC - Wadey Forest
Service Camp Site (Revelstoke area) - Flowt Cycles Revelstoke
bike advice and service with a smile - Revelstoke Cycling Association
- Previous article about New Denverriding on
NSMB.com– see my site if
the NSMB link is dead - Mt MacPherson
trails (Revelstoke) - Kootenay Backroads Mapbook