Sunshine Coast Fall 2021
A 3 day backcountry mountain bike route on BC's Sunshine Coast with lots of single track, great vistas and quad busting hills to round it out. Introduction In the summer of 2021 I was one day back from riding in the BC Epic 1000 and decided to go out for a mountain bike ride on the North Shore. I was feeling pretty fit having ridden for 10 days in the heat on a fully loaded gravel bike, roughly a 100 km a day. After a couple of laps I started my way down to my car and promptly crashed on a slippery corner where I wasn't paying attention and broke my collarbone. My summer of mountain bike riding was pretty much finished which wasn't great but to placate myself I started planning out two rides I was interested in the fall once my collarbone healed up. The last was riding the Moab Rocks XC race in Moab in late October and to prepare as well as make sure my collarbone was healed enough I planned to ride a 2 night, 3 day 100-120 km mountain bike bikepacking route on the Sunshin...