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TransRockies Competitors cross the Great Divide
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...
Fernie Start Spectacular
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,...
Fernie Time Trial a Success
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,...
TransRockies Stage 2
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...
TransRockies Stage 1
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...
Now ready to MTB again…
Franck Gimard has returned from holiday to ride this years TransRockies with Garret Sowchuk. Both riders rode last years TR7 with other partners and are very excited to be repeating their experience as a team. Here is Francks update from his holiday: Here we are, back...