Fernie is showcasing the buzzing mountain bike enduro format in the Canadian Rockies with the Wild Mountain Fernie Enduro on June 30, 2013.

An Enduro is a style of competition that bears a curious resemblance to what most of us actually enjoy doing on a bike; namely, making it up the hills in a respectable fashion and then trying to destroy our buddies’ egos on the descents.

Fernie Wild Mountain Enduro- Teaser on Pinkbike

Discover what the buzz is about! The Wild Mountain Fernie Enduro will feature a pure format, 39 km route with four timed technical descents. Riders will be ranked in the enduro results – with only the descents timed, and for those who ask – a time for the entire 38.7km course. With four descents totaling 1,822m, the Fernie Enduro will offer a World Class Enduro experience. The route will feature four epic Fernie descents:
1. Verboten
2. Project 9
3. Red Sonya
4. Roots Hyper Extension

Overall: 38.7 km, 1765m climbing, 1822m descents

The Wild Mountain Fernie Enduro will run on Sunday, June 30th and will follow the Fernie Ultra and Relay trail running event, which runs on June 29th as part of the Wild Mountain Fernie Ultra & Enduro weekend. Racers will be treated to a premier event starting at Fernie Alpine Resort and ending at the Arts Station in historic downtown of Fernie. Enjoy beautiful and challenging bike trails, epic downhills, professional timing, an athlete pint glass, and a holiday Monday in Fernie with fun Canada Day activities.

Get your buzz on! Only 150 spots are available in this epic Enduro, register now!

TransRockies Events operates the TransRockies Race Series with 13 events over 30 days per year in Canada and the United States with a combined participation of over 4,000. The legendary TransRockies Challenge is now in its 12th year of hosting mountain bikers from around the globe and the TransRockies Run is in its seventh year as North America’s largest running stage race. TransRockies Events has operated in Fernie every year since it was founded in 2002.

This is Fernie’s premier big day ride featuring a collection of Fernie’s best single track!
What you get: A fun day of riding sweet Fernie singletrack, t-shirt, dinner and after party at the Royal!!
Sign up here: bikefernie.ca

Cost: $45 if you register before September 27, 2012, $50 after*
* Must be a Fernie Mountain Bike Club member

Don’t miss riding the biggest mountain bike park in the Rockies!

Fernie Alpine Resort has made a number of enhancements to its Legendary Bike Park for this upcoming summer season including:

Lower Mountain upgrades and reroutes to Lower Canada Cup, Deer Trail, Double Creek, and Top Gun to accommodate the Aerials Park. Current plans mean these trails will actually grow in length, see berms and rollers added to the flat ski run sections on the lower mountain and a large bridge rebuild. Deer trail riders will now have opportunity to ride through open alpine flower meadows on their way to base.

TNT below the White Pass load has received a reroute into the trees as alternative to steep shale slope on Deep Sea

New upper section to Ben’s Big Rig which doubled its length. All riders now have option to ride single track instead of access road

New Cedar Trail single-track provides beginner riders with single-track option that meanders through old growth cedar forest before rejoining existing Cedar Trail road

Phat Larry’s, new bridges and short re-route sections

Boom, Cedar, Larch, View, Gorbie, Hobbits now available for hiking traffic from the Elk Chair to base

New Peak to Park hiking options (can hike from Polar Peak to Fernie Provincial Park).

New dates for Fernie Alpine Resort Bike Festival and Lungbuster as well as Furious 3 and TransRockies utilizing FAR Bike Park this season (keep an eye on Facebook Events listings for details)

New Skills Park Features
Dog friendly zone on Silk and Manchuria Trails
Continuing to work on resurfacing trails and technical terrain feature upgrades.

Along with Mountain Biking Fernie Alpine Resort Legendary Summer also includes activities such as the NEW Aerial Park & Zipline, Hiking, Mountain Top Lunch, Sightseeing, Tennis and more! Visit Fernie for its Preview Weekend on June 23/24 – Official Opening Date is Friday June 29th!

The Fernie Mountain Bike Club is hosting its annual Spring Bike Blitz. Bring out your used steeds and don’t be shy, people are buying everthing from townies to expensive road and mountain bikes.

All bikes shapes and sizes are accepted, parts, and any other random bike or outdoor gear you just don’t need any more bring it to the Elks Hall!

Following the bike sway take in the BBQ and the bike movie Strength in Numbers!

May 26 2012

Bike & Gear Swap – Elks Hall
7:00pm-9:00pm Friday night Drop -Off
9:00-10:00 AM Saturday – Drop-off
10:00-2:00 PM Saturday – Sale
2:00-3:00 PM Saturday – Item Pickup

Percentage of sale goes to FMBC. Your choice of 10% (members only) 20%, 50% or 100% donation to FMBC. You can also choose to cap your donation at a maximum of $250.

Bikers BBQ
11:30 – 2:00PM – Elks Hall

Strength in Numbers Bike Movie
$10 non members, $5 members, 8PM at the Elks Hall on Saturday Night

The 2nd Annual WAM BAM DIRT JUMP JAM took place August 20th at the City of Fernie Dirt Jumps behind the Aquatic Centre. Starting at 6pm to dark with the finals under lights! Cash prizes and a whole lot of fun went down that day.

Here is a video production from Nic Genovese:

Wam Bam Dirt Jump Jam 2011 from Nic Genovese on Vimeo.

For more on the Wam Bam: http://fernie.com/blog/2011/08/fernies-wam-bam-dirt-jump-jam/

This is one of the most entertaining bike movies that I have ever seen, enjoy!!

Snake Bite is just that, when you least expect it you’re bitten, and the trail has ridden thet way from its creation in the late 90′s. Originally built as a downhill it has become a challenging uphill loop for its sister ride Verboten. Snake Bite connects FAR’s Red Tree traverse with Gorby trail at the bottom of Old Goat.

See here is Snake Bite ridden in its original downhill direction.

Fernie’s Southern Comfort is new this year and it a sweet and smooth high speed roller. The trail head is at the corner of the next switch back on Castle Rocks after South Castle. Southern Comfort reconnects with South Castle and provides a great down alternative to Hyper Extension and South Castle.

Thanks to the great vision and hard work by those who built the trail!

This 20 year old trail has become a popular downhill with the addition of a connecting super-climb called Hyper Ventilation. Here is an excellent video of a decent: