XC in PG

[Spaz]

I am going up to PG next week for a few days and am going to bring my XC-ish bike with me. I am looking for some good XC type trails to ride. I used to live up there but it has been many years, so I need some direction.

[drezy]

Not too tough to find some good xc trails around here. From UNBC you can hit quite a few trails ranging from path-like to singletrack. Phiderny has some decent trails mixed in with some shore inspired ones. If you're not familiar with either of those areas, I would check out Ottway. The trails are mixed in with the xc ski trails. They're pretty easy to find and it's tough to get lost because everything pretty much leads back to the lodge.

Your best bet is to drop in to one of the shops and ask for some directions. Either that or PM me and I can point you in the right direction.

[Jaysin]

Dan's gotter beat.

Otway for the real XC stuff, along with the gruling 16km swamp trail from UNBC-Otway......its a gooder on a good day

[XXX_er]

go up the hill to the uni, go past the main entrance ,turn right at the next street then left and you should be at the P-lot.From there you can ride the blue spruce out to hy 16 or ride around the uni/forest for the world .If you want a long ride from there take the greenaway trail out to otway the xc ski area there are signs with maps all over the area .

Otway has some good xc, out otway road 5m from foothills blvd ,in the P-lot look at the sign on the left (furthest from the daylodge) it will have a map of all the singletrack cycling trails.

pidherny ,go across the foothills bridge,take the left at norht nechako rd ,turn right at pidherny rd &park at the gate .no maps but there are trails allover some great single track built mostly by a local doctor

the love trail or gunn trail:from down town go across either the hy 16 bridge east or the bridge going south and there is a singletrack between the 2 bridges on the ridge overlooking town . I often take this one on the way to work

[Jaysin]

Al, how is the love trail doing??? Any work been done to it AT all since the Trailbomber days of 2001?

[XXX_er]

no work done really so lots of exposed roots,pretty brutal on an HT,my prophet likes that stuff

[Spaz]

Thanks for the advice everyone. Wow, the Love trail is still around. I was riding that 10 years ago.

[XXX_er]

Just got back from otway ,a little wet but good fun,if you don't mind waiting for an old pensioner to catch up with ya get in touch with me, I am avaialble almost all the time

[Spaz]

XXX er, thanks for the offer. I am going up to see my folks for the weekend and am not sure when I am going to go riding. I may not have access to a computer, can you pm with your phone number.

How is Otway for dogs, do they allow them on there? I know it a pay per use in the winter for skiing, is it the same for biking?

[drezy]

XXX er, thanks for the offer. I am going up to see my folks for the weekend and am not sure when I am going to go riding. I may not have access to a computer, can you pm with your phone number.

How is Otway for dogs, do they allow them on there? I know it a pay per use in the winter for skiing, is it the same for biking?Dogs are ok and you don't have to pay. It'll most likely be soggy as hell though, it's been raining off and on all week.

[XXX_er]

uh actualy dogs are not appreciated and one of the bro's got shit last thursday but you can probably sneak them by when ski season isnt on ,in ski season NO WAY.No charge in the off season

ya everything is soggy and all logs are slippery ,I will pm ya

[Aldo Nova]

i enjoy Otway, although UNBC/Forest For The World trails can be a nice day of riding too.

If you rode 57 Chevy at Otway back in the Trailbomber days you were a god for that week, hahaha. Who remembers that trail:P? (@ Otway)

[drezy]

uh actualy dogs are not appreciated and one of the bro's got shit last thursday but you can probably sneak them by when ski season isnt on ,in ski season NO WAY.No charge in the off season

ya everything is soggy and all logs are slippery ,I will pm yaThat surprises me. I've seen tonnes of guys out there with their dogs. Only hiking or biking though. It's been years since I've skiied out there.

[XXX_er]

If you actualy read the signs it sez no dogs allowed and someone whom I know that is very active in the club told one of the group dogs were not actualy allowed but alot of people walk there dogs there anyhow cuz nobody is usually there to say anything

[drezy]

If you actualy read the signs it sez no dogs allowed and someone whom I know that is very active in the club told one of the group dogs were not actualy allowed but alot of people walk there dogs there anyhow cuz nobody is usually there to say anythinggotcha. By the way, I don't have a dog, just seen lots of the little buggers up there. I can't imagine it would be a heck of a lot of fun up there right now anyways. It's friggin miserable out there today.

[XXX_er]

a few years ago we (we cuz I am part of the ski club) let the dog mushers run a race out at otway and afterwards they picked up EVERY piece of scat

If you havent tried it skate skiing is a fun thing to do at night in the winter , actualy a few riders are into skate skiing myself, Bill & Meryl even Soupy

[Joe Dick]

skate skiing is bad ass.

I raced the 12 out at otway a few years ago. first and last time I rode out there. supper fun, for what it was.

maybe kind of personal but whats meryl doing now that mc bike is done?

[XXX_er]

there will be dh races at tabor next season ,they were supposed to be this fall but things were just too damn busy building the new quesnel sore and all

Kerensa is gona be organising it from what I understand

Meryl is the wrench at empire which is the shop that Rob Jameson (former manager at lick bike) opened just before lickbike closed



note: lickbike is/was the name of a trail in terrace

[Joe Dick]

funny I was in empire this spring looking for something they did not have. SPD cleats :S left never to return. Meryl was not around I guess. good to hear in all.

I wanted to check out Tabor this summer, but... ah thats a long long story.

[Jaysin]

Ya meryl is at Empire, just up the street from my house:P

Tabor Dh race should be a doozy!