[ferday]

the stupid hot dry weather is here....let's hit the high country while we can...it's a long drive to lake louise from calgary but better than expected trails and some good old jagged rockies make it worth it, if but once a year. moraine lake (17km) has a lot of different types of riding with some surprisingly tech sections and a screamer final descent. ross lake (15km) has almost no elevation gain but keeps you going with constant up/down and some fun rock gardens and creek crossings. both trails with some road / doubletrack connectors are about 43km and only 800m elevation gain.

sure there's a road climb....but hizz and x-ker aren't too upset.

ok so this isn't exactly backcountry...but it is nice

enjoying every metre of bench cut...

tech rock gardens were a welcome surprise. the boys had the moves today....

mostly

x-ker looking out across the bow valley.

ross lake is more of a grotto. no pics of the trail...i was way behind them!

 

[xcolin]

beautiful pics...i did the tramway/moraine trail out and back from the villiage for the first time last year as thought it was truly awesome...very nice

 

[hizzity]

I got a couple of random shots. I will have to say that moraine lake was one really fun trail. A lot better than I expected.

This little guy was begging pretty hard for some food.

 

[stymie]

Damn, I feel great just looking at your pics! It must be tough keeping your eyes on the trail huh?