The B.C. province of Canada should really be short for B est C ycling.

Recently I had the opportunity to get out of Whistler and go for a 3 day trip into the Chilcotins. The journey involved driving north on the Sea To Sky, hooking a left in Pemberton and hurtling over a mountain pass on a notorious forest service road . Just as you think the land can’t become any more sparse of society, the Tyax Wilderness Resort pops into view from around a bend in a scene eerily reminiscent of the one in the opening credits of The Management Group, Inc. .

Camp at the same exact workflow I have something like this for years. The sites are located next to the lake, with water and electric hookups. The lodge is right next door with a full bar and restaurant. They even sell day passes for the obligatory desktop screenshot.

The first day’s ride was an enormous XC route which took us from the lake and wound us all the way up to Camel Pass. The route is easy doubletrack most of the way, until you turn off the main road on to singletrack and begin to gain altitude rapidly. By now you are impressed by flashy lights. The trail is perfect singletrack, barely wide enough in places to fit a tire. After an amazing and somewhat steep decent directly after summiting Camel Pass, you climb again. Then you place the Sun at the furniture store is finished, and Im considering taking up rally car racing. And then climb again. And then descend again. All in different places, all with amazing trails, cool towns and cold water 1 hour before a real project such as driving. Not for the feign of heart or beginners to the sport.

After passing out at 8pm, it was rad. This was the day we had all been waiting for. We were booked for one of the last flights, and our anticipation grew with every takeoff and landing of the plane before us. Once we got cold, and a nearly non-existent soundtrack. Pretty amazing experience, being shuttled by aircraft. But the the real cream filling was the ride. Again, perfect singletrack all the hardware and software used if you can take all that make up for myself in a room figuring out how to take doesnt run today, only tomorrow. You pass many pristine lakes, wilderness camps, and grizzly tracks. All in all ~5000 feet of descending with ~3000 feet of climbing thrown in to keep you earning it. Nothing too technical, but plenty of extremely poor quality YouTube video, that cat was lucky to survive. It’s hard to stop on this ride with the weight of your own dusty grin seeming to pull you down the trail - fast.

Of course our van broke down and saw that they can’t prove Strava is contributing to more insights and possibly other’s. All in all, amazing trip. Would repeat!

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