Fernie Weekend

Fernie is gorgeous in the fall. If you haven't been, or only been to ski, try to head to Fernie in September for some riding. I've always had amazing weather, and this weekend wasn't any different.

I was in Fernie with Terri and the Sills. Terri won a weekend of free accommodation (thanks Topps) and was nice enough to take friends. Now if we could just convince her to start a blog.

By 'amazing weather', I mean 23+ degrees, lovely, sunny, and dry trails. Also amazing and also typical was the weather on the way out to Fernie, driving Friday night. It was pouring, pouring rain (where have you read that before? At least I was inside this time!), and then there was a giant hail storm. Every time!

We woke up late Saturday, and sat around the kitchen until noon chatting and drinking coffee. Then we went for a great ride, on the trails near the cemetery. This is probably the fourth time I've ridden up there, but we found some new trails that I haven't been on. My favorite was called Sidewinder. It was switchbacky, a good grind on the way up, and a super-fun bomb down. We rode a lot time on Saturday, 3 hours I think. We were all pretty tired.

Jeff cooked us up an amazing, salt-free dinner (with the help of his lovely assistants). Yum.

On Sunday, we had breaky, drank more coffee, and sat around chatting. Then off to throw the frisbee and hack. Did you know there is a disc golf course in Fernie? Neither did we! We didn't have disc golf discs there, too bad, because the course looked sweet. Of course we had a ulti disc though, so we threw for a while in an open space (the nearest usable green space) near where we were staying.

After lunch, we went for our second ride down by the Provincial Campground. It was a rolling trail with a gradual up and tonnes of roots. We were actually looking for a trail called Snakebite, at the base of the hill, that I had a blast on last year. The trail that we found was perfect for the day.

I could have stayed in Fernie for a week - curse you, day job.