{"id":6357,"date":"2017-09-30T16:22:41","date_gmt":"2017-09-30T22:22:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/evilmoose.me\/?p=6357"},"modified":"2018-01-13T23:13:28","modified_gmt":"2018-01-14T05:13:28","slug":"solo-bikepacking-the-40-corbin-mine-road-fernie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/evilmoose.me\/?p=6357","title":{"rendered":"Solo bikepacking the 40 (Corbin Mine Road – Fernie)"},"content":{"rendered":"

The last day was a bit of a blur – it was forecast to start raining around lunchtime, so I wanted to get a move on. The way my gps line told me to go through to Fernie had a logging sign saying private property, so I tried going down and around the way I’d come through on the Kootenay Gravel Grinder in 2016.<\/p>\n

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But it turns out that now too had active logging going on. As it was a Saturday, it wasn’t an issue, but I wouldn’t want to try and make the connection during working hours.<\/p>\n

As I was moseying my way uphill, I saw a solitary black lump by the road in the distance.\u00c2\u00a0 “Interesting,” I thought, as my heart rate shot through the roof. I moved a little further forward, and there was a second black lump – even more interesting! But then the view opened up, and there were a whole herd of the things. And they definitely had nice long legs. Cattle, not bears. At least I was now feeling thoroughly alert.<\/p>\n

Taking the photo below is the one spot where I managed to crash on the whole ride. I must have had a dizzy spell, as I fell over as I was laying my bike on the road and slammed down hard on my knee. The end result was me sitting on the road for a minute to catch my breath, then deciding that seeing as I’d already hurt my knee, I may as well take the damn photo.<\/p>\n

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Anyway, apart from the bit about my knee, the few switchbacks were fun.\u00c2\u00a0 And I actually came across another vehicle! With people in it! Otherwise this route was pretty deserted, it was a very quiet and still and overcast day.<\/p>\n

As I neared the high point, the beautiful treed terrain I’d biked through last year was now all logged – it’s always a bit of a startling sight – no photos of that though, just the beautiful aspens I started to come across on the descent into Fernie.<\/p>\n

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And that I apparently couldn’t stop taking photos of.<\/p>\n

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I mean, what would you do? With a road so ridiculously scenic?<\/p>\n

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Then I found this enormous machine, which some people claim is carrying a spare tyre, I think it’s just in the process of eating another of it’s kind.<\/p>\n

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So the descent went really slowly, as I had to stop every few minutes to get another photo.<\/p>\n

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Thankfully the weather held though. As it was a lot of photos. And a great finish to the ride.<\/p>\n

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