photo: Derek Frankowski
#24 Ride the Seven Summits Trail
One of “50 things to do before you die” in the Summer 2009 50th-anniversary issue of British Columbia Magazine.
Mountain bikers refer to it as “flow,” the sensation that comes from pedalling your heart out. “Just being out in the wilderness on a bicycle is a whole exhilarating experience,” says Victoria’s James Brown, of the International Mountain Bicycling Association of Canada.
B.C. is the place to pedal for the peaks, with trails galore and diverse topography from the Rockies to the Purcells to the Coast Mountains. Must-do routes include the Seven Summits Trail in Rossland.
“It’s an all-day adventure in a spectacular setting,” says Stewart Spooner of Rossland, who helped build the route, which stretches more than 30 kilometres. The IMBA lists it among its “epic” North American rides, along with the roughly 16-kilometre Eagle Ridge Expedition on Vancouver’s North Shore, and Whistler’s Comfortably Numb trail, about 25 kilometres.
Info: (www.imba.com/canada; www.rosslandtrails.ca; www.whistlerbike.com; www.trailpeak.com).
Read more in the current issue of British Columbia Magazine
