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Hidden Gems: 100 Mile House
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While you may have heard of last week's Hidden Gem (Powell River), it's unlikely this week's has hit your radar before - at least as a riding destination. But 100 Mile House is clearly a spot worth visiting. It's got an up-and-coming riding scene with lots of potential (and local government and First Nations support), beautiful terrain and scenery, and plenty of that off the beaten track feeling that BC's small towns are known for. Mega bonus: great off-road and 4-wheeling potential, as the latest vid makes clear.
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ShawMac
1 month ago
My old hometown! But I think Clinton, BC would like a word about calling Jesmond 100 Mile House :).
Kraken is one of my all time favorite trails. I have not ridden the Jesmond trails but hope to next summer.
I haven't chatted with the owners whether they have been exploring the option, but Mt Timothy would be an amazing shuttle based bike park. If I still lived there I would be dying to help with that project.
I have a personal beef about the glorification of schralping trails like Lost Marbles. It's a remote trail that starts in the alpine and the soils are thin and sensitive in that area. If people ride like that, the trail will become a water raveled mess over time. Ride Don't Slide is still an applicable saying.
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XXX_er
1 month ago
I've counted 4 of 6 vehicals in the area p-lot being Tacoma's so Toyota dealers know their customer base
most of BC is so sparsely populated/ remote it can't even support a greyhound bus line let alone a rail line
but when you get old enough you can look forward to the almost free Northern Health bus
I'm pretty sure they already cut all the trees or the bugs got em or they burnt
Good news is the BC gov is throwing money at mtn biking from what i see up here
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skywalkdontrun
1 month ago
Eventually the bike industry (and ski/snowboard industry) is going to have to have a serious reckoning about its relationship with and reliance on the automotive industry, and how it perpetuates the exploitation of natural resources from these beautiful spaces.
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Cr4w
1 month ago
Say more. Vehicles are needed to access wild spaces precisely because they're isolated and distant (and this is Canada where we don't build trains or whatever). So what are you proposing?
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Cooper Quinn
1 month ago
Indeed. The perception/narrative that tourism based economies are somehow 'more sustainable' than the alternatives is often incredibly misguided, at best.
Yes, cutting down all the trees is bad. But is it any worse than thousands of people flying to YVR from different continents and driving to Squamish/Whistler every year?
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Cr4w
1 month ago
FSRs are the backbone of BC riding whether they were established for utilities access or logging.
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ShawMac
1 month ago
Tourism is an extraction industry like anything else, but the impacts are not as obvious or immediate as seeing a cutblock or an open pit mine. The industry has not really reconciled with that idea though, and tends to either remain ignorant to local impacts or use whataboutisms to defend it.
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lev3000
4 weeks, 2 days ago
Cooper, I would say it’s definitely worse to cut trees down!
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