Birthday Mtb Trip!
It was September 2019 and my birthday was just around the corner. We also had four days off of school for the holiday so I figured the best way to celebrate was to travel and ride some sick trails with my dad. After a lot of research, I figured we should go somewhere north before winter hit and ultimately settled on the town of Golden, British Columbia as it seemed like a great place that most people had never heard of so it would make a fun adventure.
The trip up was pretty terrible. We got on a 5 hour flight to Calgary and had to drive 3 hours from there into BC. Although this was late September, Calgary was covered in 6 feet of snow with freezing weather which greatly worried me about conditions in our final destination.
Luckily, Golden was completely snow free and that afternoon we picked up our rental bikes and did a couple of chill laps at Kicking Horse. We spent the entire next day riding park and hitting everything from loamers like Devil’s Disco and Pioneer, to flow trails, and hit some of the coolest woodwork I’ve ever seen on trails like Stickrock and Lym! Despite my freezing hands, I was having an awesome day! We decided to finish the day off by riding some of the best local trails near town like Scali Mag and Gold Rush.
For day two, we planned to hit some insanely steep trails on Mount 7 and maybe even do a lap down T4-LSD-Canyon Creek, but we woke up to find everything covered in snow! Unfortunately, we had to cut the trip short and took an earlier flight home.
Even though we may have traveled a total of 16 hours of just 1.5 days of riding, I still had a sick time in Golden and it proved to be one of the best birthday presents I could ever ask for.
If you’re wondering why I haven’t talked about Golden that much on this site, it’s because I really want to go back and give this place a fair chance by riding all the stuff I didn’t get to. There’s also a lot of other destinations near by like Revelstoke, Panorama Bike Park, Fernie, and Moose Mountain/Bragg Creek across the border in Alberta. Basically, I can’t wait to go back to this reason since I’ve barely scratched the surface of what the interior BC/Alberta region has to offer.