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945 ft

Distance

11 ft

Climb

-275 ft

Descent

00:08:35

Avg time

Trail Supporters, Builders & Maintainers of Digger Trail

Ryders Eyewear
since 2015
Digger
Builder

Digger Details

Riding Area

Mount Fromme
North Vancouver, British Columbia
Difficulty Rating

Double Black Diamond rate
Trail Type

Singletrack
Bike Type

DH
Trail Usage

Biking Primary
Direction

Downhill Primary
Popular direction shown
TTFs on Trail

Drop, Skinny
Global Ranking
#12595 in Mountain Biking [+]
- #470 in Hiking
Local Popularity
45 in Mountain Biking [+]
- 5 in Trail Running
- 65 in Hiking
Land Manager

District of North Vancouver

Technical trail containing many steep natural and man-made TTFs. The TTFs are very skinny and challenging. Not a beginner trail.

Digger is a steep, old school, techy, VERY slow and precise trail. If you want fast flow with jumps and drops, this totally is not the trail for you. If you like precise, start and stop, slow trials-like technical, hit it! Avoid taking new riders and those without a good rear wheel sense down it.

Access Info

Accessed off Baden Powell, exciting at Braemar road close to the powerlines.

Local Trail Association

North Shore Mountain Bike Association (nsmba.ca)
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More Stats for Digger bike trail

Altitude change

-264 ft
Altitude min

1,240 ft
Altitude max

1,504 ft
Altitude start

1,504 ft
Altitude end

1,240 ft
Grade

-27.901%
Grade max

-39.757%
Grade min

-9.658%
Distance climb

54 ft
Distance down

891 ft
Avg time

00:08:35
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Status:

on Oct 27, 2018

Variable

Avg: 4.4 (16 votes)

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Directions to digger trailhead (49.350900, -123.058800)

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Digger Trail Reports

	date	description
	Oct 27, 2018 @ 4:06pm Oct 27, 2018	If you are looking for the old school gnar on this trail, it'# no longer there. Most of the wooden TTFs have been removed. Single black rating at...
	Oct 21, 2018 @ 5:09pm Oct 21, 2018	Dry and clear. Some of the wood work is a bit busted up though but still manageable in the grand scheme given how technical this trail is. Some...
	Oct 18, 2018 @ 5:25pm Oct 18, 2018	Running well.
	Oct 8, 2018 @ 7:27pm Oct 8, 2018	reporter Fun stuff
	Sep 18, 2018 @ 1:35pm Sep 18, 2018	reporter lower part is all good

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Recent Ridelog Activity on Trail

Past Week

2 rides
4 miles avg distance

6 Months

36 rides
11 miles avg distance

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129 rides

Photos

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7 Reviews & Comments

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daslade (May 12, 2018 at 18:36)

Had a hard time figuring out where the trail was on descent, very slow techy trail, almost seems decommissioned

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leelau Plus (Jun 21, 2018 at 17:24)

What an absolute shite trail. Chunder from water damage doesn't even begin to describe it. It's been a long time since I rode it and I wish it had been longer

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blackfly (Jul 2, 2018 at 16:46)

Chunder to you is old school tech gnar to me. Went down it today on a new bike, and it was too much for the bike I had but I have gone down this trail for years and love the roughness of it. There is sad lack of it on Fromme anymore; and I agree you might not like the NSMBA and try to throw them under the bus any chance you get but if you are going to at least pick the trails they have really screwed up, or, allowed to die due to a mandate of low risk riding and minimal litigiousness by the DNV. Hence Seventh, Expresso, Crinkum et al... Personally if you can't ride it, don't do it. No harm there.

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leelau Plus (Jul 4, 2018 at 14:45)

Pete you and I are going to have to (respectfully) agree to disagree with respect to this trail.

You are definitely the asymptote in the bell curve.

And I don't despise the NSMBA for what they did to trails. My lack of trust is due to their encouragement of harassment, misogyny and hypocrisy

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Gphilly88 (Jan 1, 2019 at 17:11)

Can't agree more! If risk is an issue, don't ride trails like this (the ones that may exist still that is!). Given that many riders can't even get onto the skinny features, there is probably less risk on a trail like Digger compared to newer flow trails - I mean, I can go flat out on Lower Espresso, and if I stay off the brakes, some fun, stupid speed can be had. At top speed I almost flew off the trail one day. Whereas on a technical trail like Digger, you were required to go at a slow, calculated speed,...with extra focus. If anything I am more careful and less likely to bail on a trail like the old Digger, bc I know my skill level and the focus required. Missing the old school trails.... www.pinkbike.com/video/337553

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blackfly (Jul 22, 2018 at 15:45)

I went down the bottom half of this trail today and saw the "new work". Typical bermed, flow low litigious mandate...exactly what Digger is not. And you know where this is going: the new line will be established and the old school line, instead of being preserved as an option, will be decommissioned. Again, another piece of old school tech gone. And it is coming; they have already covered over some of the lowest parts. Whats worse, if you go to Pink Starfish (pushed up it to see) they felled live trees to block the lines. I thought falling live trees was completely verboten. Apparently not. And if you really look at it, I bet Lower Digger and Boundary will be the next to go since they don't follow a mandate of low risk trails. I admit I prefer my trails a bit more techy/rocky/tough but to slowly eliminate them and/or dumb them down is not only systemic but wrong on so many levels.

And really, this is all a NSMBA issue since they decide what gets work and what type of work. And on this, I don't agree at all. Each has their reasons I guess. But regardless, Digger's demise is coming and again, once gone, there is no getting it back. I just don't agree with why but I understand it even it has no basis on fact.

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robgibb (Oct 25, 2018 at 21:17)

the trail description on this trail could not be further from the truth...there are zero man made ttf's left on this trail. I am not judging whether there should be or not but the description is wrong.

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