Fernie goodness and bears

Fernie is fantastically awesome!!  And there are bears...

The Fernie town and ski resort are surrounded by xc and dh trails in a lush green goodness that could keep you happy for days, if not weeks. Alas, we only had one day. Gloria did have fun! She got a little muddy but did not care at all as these trails flow really well!

There were views:

 

And queues with views: (which Gloria didn't mind as she was complemented by the bloke who lifted her up on to the hook on the chair "Nice bike!")

 

There was rooty forested goodness

 

 And fun on berms (check out the little fellas - startin em young in Canada, ay!)

 

 And wooden features of course (They run 2 lifts for mountain bikes - we didn't get time to check this one out - in fact we only rode 5 of the over 30 trails)

 

 And - Look! There's a bear down there!

Gloria thought the guys on the chairlift were being smart and yelling at her to go hard in to the berm, so she did, but then she realised they were yelling "BEAR!" so thought it wise to stop and wait for the bear cross the track below, just after Joel had ridden around the corner unaware that he was probably being watched from the forest edge.

Seriously, if we had more time we would have stayed longer. Definitely worth the effort to get down to Fernie if you are ever in Canada.