Epic comparison

[ChunkyMonkey]

Comfortably Numb vs. 7 Summits

Rode the first last weekend, riding the second next weekend. Just looking for opinions on which one is harder.

We did CN in about 4.5 hours w/out the ride from town. Rode it on my SX trail with a big wheelset and a Super T, and was pretty much exhausted by the end. Just don't want to push it quite so hard this time, but I want to do bigger stuff this weekend and don't have room for spare forks/wheels.

[Darklord]

Call them epics?? :)

Back in my day, we'd get up at 4.30am, half an hour before we went to bed, ride from NV to Whistler, hit the Flank Trail, return via Comfortably Numb, then through the Cap Watershed to get home to my rolled up newspaper on the side of Lonsdale. And all before lunch too....
And you try telling the kids of today......

[DaveM]

If you can hold off 7 Summits until later in the month, there's a poker run that sounds like a really good time. It would be a good time to test out the trail since there will actually be food and water stations along the way.

http://www.revolutioncycles.ca/newsite/news.html

PM Trout for the trail details. It's his backyard, and he's the guy organizing the Poker run too.

[Darklord]

We rode in R-Land with Trout last year (I can still remember the bibs!)
We're hooking up again this w/e, the weather is too good to cancel now :)

[axisofevelknievel]

I'm also interested in this question. Does anyone have an answer about how the two trail compare?

[Darklord]

Both done:

Comfortably Numb is pretty relentless, no decent views till the top, then still not amazing.
7 Summits is longer, but includes far more descending :)

Both rides would be hell in summer heat, but at Rossland you're in real trouble! (no real tree cover)

CN is def more tech, 7 Summits is old-school bomb down a hill, climb back up a hill stuff!

My fav was 7 Summits, takes effort to plan, but the views are stunning, and the singletrack superlative!