Transrockies

Aug 17 - Blackstone Fernie Breathe Easy Day 7
We did it...both Breathe Easy Teams completed the TransRockies in Support of Asthma Canada!! It is SO great to be back in Fernie! What a great experience. Many lessons lea...

Aug 16 - Blackstone Fernie Breathe Easy Day 6
Hello Fernie! Sherpa Shayne here in the Crow’s Nest Pass, having successfully completed the ride from Elkford. It was long, hot, dirty, and I think that Pat Gilmar has a pr...

Aug 15 - Blackstone Fernie Breathe Easy Day 5
The ‘rock garden’ of Day 5 has absolutely no flowers... in fact it doesn’t have anything to do with a ‘garden’ but is more accurately described as a graveyard of hea...

Aug 14 - Blackstone Fernie Breathe Easy Day 4
Oh what fun! ...109 kms of single-track, double-track and flying gravel road. There were hazards galore with cross ditches and seven stream crossings, one which was threateni...

Aug 13 - Sebastine & Michele - Day 3 Update
It was a relief to get onto some flowy single-track and there was lots of it! The time trial format was really cool and it let all the teams have some space to prove their han...

Aug 12 - Blackstone Fernie Breathe Easy Day 2
I sit under the awning of the RV, the rain coming down again, waiting for Pepper, Shayne, Michelle and Sebastian, the riders of the “Breath Easy Teams” in support of Asthm...

Aug 12 - Pepper's Day One - Sunday August 10
Day one from Panorama to K2 Ranch was a typical “Transrockies” day. We left with the music blaring, “The Highway to Hell”. From Panorama we immediately began a relen...

Aug 09 - Pepper's - Only 2 days to go!
Pledges for the Asthma Society of Canada are starting to roll in as bikes from all over the world are doing the same. Brightly-coloured jerseys decorate the streets of downtow...

Aug 09 - Epic Finish just a week away
Fernie has participated as an official stage host of the TransRockies every year since the events inception in 2002. Following five consecutive years of being the Official Sta...

Jul 25 - Blackstone TransRockies Bike Rally - Kids’ Aged 4 - 8
The world-renown TransRockies Challenge mountain bike race will visit Fernie this August 16th for the seventh consecutive year, this being the second year staging the Officia...