http://fernie.com/blog/transrockies Where it all began... Sun, 15 Aug 2010 04:11:26 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Though riders were pushed to their limits during stage 6 of the 2010 TransRockies, there was still one test to pass before they would be able to celebrate their successful finish with family, supporters and friends. Stage 7 covered 46km from Rafter Six Ranch to Canmore with a route that ... http://fernie.com/blog/transrockies/2010/08/14/canmore-finish/ Friendships are always strong and easy when skies are sunny and the going is smooth but life teaches us time and time again that the true measure of the bond in not measured in the sun, but when the weather turns bad and when the struggles begin. So it is ... http://fernie.com/blog/transrockies/2010/08/14/riders-dig-deep-to-survive-the-hardest-day/ After a day of riding over and through the foothills of the Rockies to the west of Calgary, riders headed back into the heart of the mountains on Stage 5. In doing so, they left the mud and meadows of the cattle ranch lands behind entered the high peaks and ... http://fernie.com/blog/transrockies/2010/08/13/anchor-d-ranch%e2%80%94little-elbow-camp/ The TransRockies owes a debt of gratitude to the many local riders and trail builders who spend countless hours maintaining the great singletrack which is used each year for the event. This year, the TransRockies was proud to be able to make a donation of $1500 to the Fernie Trails ... http://fernie.com/blog/transrockies/2010/08/13/3000-donated-to-fernie-trails-alliance/ Alongside all the obvious skills that are essential to success in long distance mountain biking—fast climbing, brave descending, exceptional endurance—being a good bike mechanic with the ability to improvise solutions in remote places can often be the difference between winning a losing. While World Cup Mountain bike races have mechanical ... http://fernie.com/blog/transrockies/2010/08/13/team-rocky-mtn-grabs-lead/ Stage 3 of the 2010 TransRockies was officially the most remote day of the event with a route which travelled deep into some of the wildest, most spectacular terrain in the lower Canadian Rockies and which included a new crossing of the Great Divide that dropped riders in a place ... http://fernie.com/blog/transrockies/2010/08/10/transrockies-competitors-cross-the-great-divide/ The morning after they’d stretched their legs with a 31km prologue around Fernie’s singletrack, the 450 riders of the 2010 TransRockies and TR3 lined up on Voctoria Avenue for Stage 2. Led by the vintage Studebaker fire engine for the traditional lap around downtown, the riders were heartened by scattered ... http://fernie.com/blog/transrockies/2010/08/10/fernie-start-spectacular/ Like many ski towns, Fernie has more than the usual amount of great coffee shops lining its Main Street and they were bursting at the seams with hundreds of mountain bikers and their friends throughout Day 1 of the 2010 TransRockies and TR3.   Riders were, of course, looking for a ... http://fernie.com/blog/transrockies/2010/08/08/fernie-time-trial-a-success/ Stage 2 will take riders from Fernie's Historic Downtown to Coal Creek Summit and on a single track trail named Porkypine Rim that drops to the Elk River from the ridge near Hosmer. This 4000ft descent will approx take fast riders 20-25minutes, the ridgeline you see in backgrounds of some frames ... http://fernie.com/blog/transrockies/2010/07/28/transrockies-stage2/ Stage 1 of the Blackstone Fernie TransRockies will be an epic Time Trail format starting and finishing in Fernie's Historic Downtown on Sunday, August 8th. Local riders should fair well on their backyard trail. This year's Fernie participants include: Krista Turasso TR3, Jesse Moog TR3, Don Arsenault TR3, Ton Ryan TR3, Franck Gilmard TR3, and ... http://fernie.com/blog/transrockies/2010/07/21/transrockies-stage-1/