We have ridden 3 new trail areas so far, even though we have been biking in Rossland a few times, albeit the last time over 10 years ago. We were looking forward to riding the town trails again, and getting tacos at the Rossland Brewery at the finish. Our legs are quite pooped, after yesterdays ride.
The Kootenay Trail Society just finished a couple new trails, one being Blue Elephant, which goes from the ski area down to the reservoir just before town. From our unit, we made our way thru developments to the maintenance shed for the ski area, Red Resort. This gave us a slight descent to the start of the Red Top Trail. We climbed that for a bit, to the intersection of Blue Elephant. We continued climbing slightly on the newly built, but hardened Blue Elephant trail and finished with a descent to the reservoir. Went left on Larry's and immediately left on Moes. At the end of the reservoir, we went left on Drifter and left on Eddie J to start our climb for the day. At the intersection of Monte Christo Road, we went left to climb and left again to descend on Techno Grind.
Stardust was another brand new descending trail that they just finished. We descended that. At its end, we went right, up Upper Milky Way and continuing up North Star to a 4-way intersection of Techno Grind/Kootenay Columbia and North Star. After Kevin spent some time working on Francine's new Eagle 50 tooth drivetrain, we went right onto Techno Grind back out to the start of Stardust. We backtracked a tiny bit on Techno Grind to the start of Full Monte, where we went right.
When we started descending, this was quite a chunky, rocky trail, that had Francine walking too much. Descended this to Coffee Run, where we went right. At the end we went right on a Milky Way Access double track to a fun descent on Lower Milky Way to our low point of the day.
We started our climb back up towards town and the ski area. Went right on Green Door to Rogers to Upper Cemetary to Happy Valley. At the end of Happy Valley trail, we continued climbing the paved roads up to town. Once we hit town, we opted to skip tacos, and just continue the grind up to the ski area to our condo. At the reservoir, we didn't have the legs to climb Blue Elephant, so we took the rail trail, Centennial Trail.
15 miles and 3500 feet of elevation gain.
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