7.6 miles

Distance

1,261 ft

Climb

-1,041 ft

Descent

5,063 ft

High Point

This is the Full-Distance Bike Course for the 2016 XTERRA Canmore Off-Road Triathlon.

AUGUST 14, 2016
CANMORE NORDIC CENTRE PROVINCIAL PARK

Note: Bike course from Quarry Lake is 2km on paved shoulder of highway to Nordic Centre followed by 2 loops for each course within the Nordic Centre

Detailed Description

2017 XTERRA Canmore - Full Distance Bike is a 8 mile intermediate race route located near Canmore Alberta. This mountain bike only route can be used one direction and has a hard overall physical rating. This route includes 11 trails. This route climbs 1,261 ft with a max elevation of 5,063 ft then descends -1,041 ft.

Local Trail Association

Canmore and Area Mountain Bike Association (camba.ca)

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22 Reviews & Comments

Score Time Route Post Comment

finblarr

(Oct 17, 2022 at 8:20)

Trail Georgetown Climb

This is short and painful, but it's way better than Long Road to Ruin, which is long and painful.

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finblarr

(Oct 17, 2022 at 8:20)

Trail Black Coal Chutes

This is a great trail to start to learn to ride steeps. I'd recommend it to anyone looking to progress. It's a ton of fun to blast down the coal and enjoy some techy chunder.

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Draftthree

(Sep 12, 2021 at 13:39)

Trail Blue Coal Chutes

Long road to ruin, is literally a long road to ruin. You will be ruined. But you will also be ruined on Georgetown, only that's a much shorter road to ruin. Personally, I think Georgetown is the way to go. Neither way is pleasant

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saddle

(May 11, 2021 at 17:22)

Trail Blue Coal Chutes

Long Road to Ruin is a great climb out of the valley after you have descended Odessa or Coal Chutes. Ignore anything “Bre-Dude” has posted, as he clearly hasn’t a clue.

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Bre-don (Oct 26, 2020 at 12:21)

Trail EKG

It's a shit trail. All of these comments of it being great are paid employees of the nordic center.

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Bre-don (Oct 19, 2020 at 15:31)

Trail The Albertan

TOTALLY A GREAT TRAIL
- this comment was paid for by the pretentious dickwads at nordic center.

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Bre-don (Sep 29, 2020 at 23:50)

Trail Blue Coal Chutes

Blue coal chutes IS fun. Don't f*cking exit to long road to ruin. Don't listen to anyone saying long road to ruin is both ways...that trail going in THAT direction is f-u-c-k-i-n-g horrid. I'm convinced the only sane way out of this area is georgetown interpretive.

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Caribou14 (Dec 18, 2019 at 13:08)

Trail Ziggy's

super fun!!

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Caribou14 (Dec 18, 2019 at 13:08)

Trail Laundry Chutes

short but very fun trail

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toizzz

(Sep 21, 2019 at 19:56)

Trail EKG

Pretty muddy. Needs a few days to dry out.

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Bikelyftas (Aug 28, 2019 at 10:16)

Trail Nector Noodle

Fun technical trail going up and down.

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Claireandheryeti (Aug 3, 2019 at 19:30)

Trail Laundry Chutes

Short but sweet, couple of tricky drops but nothing you don't see coming and can't walk around. One of my favourites!

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dwoima (Jul 14, 2019 at 10:02)

Trail EKG

Trail in very good condition with just a muddy spots easily avoided

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LT-Canmore (Jul 11, 2019 at 18:39)

Trail EKG

Trail in good condition

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binthefreerider (Aug 28, 2018 at 10:08)

Trail Laundry Chutes

pretty good!!!!

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dwoima (Aug 25, 2018 at 11:19)

Trail EKG

Trail in great shape. Aug 23/18.

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Christian1975 (Aug 5, 2018 at 15:00)

Trail EKG

Thx y

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Canmore813 (May 20, 2018 at 7:13)

Trail EKG

Great ride out there this morning, may 20 2018.

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Keithhaines (May 7, 2018 at 5:04)

Trail EKG

Trail in good condition may 6th

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Deinarson

(Aug 17, 2017 at 12:24)

Trail Black Coal Chutes

There's no trail description so I'll add a little more. Coal Chures is literal! I had no idea until I found myself blastings down chutes of coal. It's a good trail if your starting to get used to steeps. Just point the bike down and hold on! The climb out from the bottom isn't too hard either. It's worth ditching some elevation to ride this!

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Deinarson

(Aug 17, 2017 at 12:22)

Trail Black Coal Chutes

Wowee is coal fun to ride on! Turn up the speed in this small black shale and your in for some two wheeled surfing!

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RamRod78

(Jul 25, 2016 at 11:50)

Trail Georgetown Climb

Assuming this is the Georgetown Climb? If so, needs edit for name and route....

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Trails in Route

	Ziggy's				1,959 ft
	Matching Jerseys				1,253 ft
	Blue Coal Chutes				1,594 ft
	EKG				3,219 ft
	Nector Noodle				1,089 ft
	The Albertan				2,113 ft
	Black Coal Chutes				686 ft
	Laundry Chutes				1,342 ft
	Swamp				827 ft
	Georgetown Climb				1,070 ft
	Chutes Access				322 ft

Details

Race Course
Primary Activity

Mountain Bike
Difficulty rating

Blue
Route Type

Loop
Bike type

AM, XC
Direction

One Direction
Physical rating

Hard
Ridelogs

1

More Stats for 2017 XTERRA Canmore - Full Distance Bike mountain bike route

Altitude min

4,361 ft
Altitude start

4,464 ft
Altitude end

4,685 ft
Grade

0.5%
Grade max

-33%
Grade min

31%
Distance climb

4 miles
Distance down

3 miles
Distance flat

2,690 ft

status	trail	date	condition	description
	EKG	Oct 13, 2022 @ 2:24pm Oct 13, 2022
	Nector Noodle	Oct 10, 2022 @ 4:17am Oct 10, 2022
	The Albertan	Oct 10, 2022 @ 4:17am Oct 10, 2022
	Black Coal Chutes	Oct 10, 2022 @ 4:17am Oct 10, 2022
	Blue Coal Chutes	Sep 4, 2022 @ 10:16am Sep 4, 2022

2017 XTERRA Canmore - Full Distance Bike route

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