Bike trip suggestions?

So our small group of friends have gone to whistler and silverstar in the past. Skill wise we're all fairly average, Blue is the difficulty of choice for jump trails, a-line for example is quite a bit above our comfort.However we're fairly comfortable with black trails when it comes to technical riding.

Anyone have experience with kicking horse bike park? or perhaps make another suggestion that we can travel too that's reasonably inexpensive.

So our small group of friends have gone to whistler and silverstar in the past. Skill wise we're all fairly average, Blue is the difficulty of choice for jump trails, a-line for example is quite a bit above our comfort.However we're fairly comfortable with black trails when it comes to technical riding.

Anyone have experience with kicking horse bike park? or perhaps make another suggestion that we can travel too that's reasonably inexpensive.

Sun Peaks ftw for natural tech singletrack DH, steep gnar and fast, and lots of them so you don't get bored plus a couple of really good FR trails with wood and gnar combos. Not really much in the way of jump trails unlike Silver Star. Great little resort/village area too.

the negative about Kicking horse is the long fireroad you have to ride at the top each run, wear good gloves! There is a really fun blue jump run at Kicking Horse though and its fairly long. The views from the top of Kicking horse are awesome.
here is some video I took last summer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dCx_JGI66hE

I prefer the riding overall at Sun Peaks because I like the more technical singletrack.

Panorama is also fairly good, its not as big as the other parks but its a bit cheaper and they had some fun trails.

there is a list of all the BC bike parks with their price and opening date here http://www.trailforks.com/bikeparks

Is it fair to say kicking horse is pretty heavy on wood work? I was hoping to have some trails with a lot of natural obstacles and great scenery.

Is it fair to say kicking horse is pretty heavy on wood work? I was hoping to have some trails with a lot of natural obstacles and great scenery.

Sun Peaks, it is generally pretty natural but as mentioned above a few really fun stunt trails (Sugar) that don't have that bike park built feel to them. Love it

Is it fair to say kicking horse is pretty heavy on wood work? I was hoping to have some trails with a lot of natural obstacles and great scenery.

My video just happens to have a lot of woodwork on it, the one trail there is almost all wood. But the overall terrain is pretty rocky there, a lot of the trails are fairly exposed. I would say that there are probably less natural obstacles than other BC mountains though, lots of built stuff. But there is lots of steep rock slabs to ride, which I enjoy.

Sun Peaks is great for natural terrain. Views are OK.

The Fernie bike park had some nice scenery but I have no idea what shape the trails are in. It was fun in 2003.

Based on your original post, you'd probably like Sun Peaks.

Regarding Sun Peaks , in addition to the sweet steep natural terrain spoke of above………
Doesn't it now also offer lots of great jumps being that "Brad the Builder" is the trail worker?

Panorama is pretty fun. You can do Golden one day, Pany the next..Fernie is 3hrs from Pany.

If you're thinking about hitting kicking horse I would recommend riding Mount 7 as well. You'll need to shuttle it but the riding is amazing. You'll get every kind of ring in one run.

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