SHAFT Details

Riding area

Moose Mountain
Bragg Creek, Alberta
Difficulty rating

Blue rate
Trail type

Singletrack
Bike type

DH, AM, XC
Trail Usage

Biking Only
Direction

Downhill Only
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Physical rating

Moderate
Global Ranking

#9283
Year Opened

2011

SHAFT stands for Super Happy Awesome Fun Trail. It is a high-speed bermed-corner blue trail that has become popular with the XC/AM crowd as well. SHAFT starts off fairly mellow with some sweeping corners and little hits here and there. As it rolls downhill, you get eased into faster speeds and bigger berms before getting shot out the bottom along the old T-Dub gully. Cross Canyon Creek, high-five everyone in sight with a big ol' grin on your face.

This trail is totally doable on everything in the 120-200mm travel range, including hardtails. Good tires help. Ride don't slide. Good loop options include:
- Pneuma [from Hwy66] to SHAFT and then back on the Hwy or Elbow Valley
- Sulphur Springs to Pneuma to SHAFT to EV to Pneuma to RoS [intense!]
- SS to Pneuma to SHAFT to EV to Pneuma to Moosepackers to Ridgeback [hardcore!].

NB: The trail has some loose rock, but it's not like surfing a scree slope. Once you're into the bermed part of the trail, watch your crank placement - the tread has a bit of a v-notch going on and it's possible to catch a pedal on the uphill side in a few spots.

Access Info

If you're shuttling, drive to the end of the Moose mountain road and head directly west towards the gated road to the well site. Push another 100 meters up the gated road where you will find the entrance to T-Dub to your left and the entrance to SHAFT just a few meters past it, also on your left. SHAFT finishes on the last few hundred meters of T-Dub which will then flow onto the Canyon Creek road, where you pedal south (left) towards the Ing’s mine parking lot. where your driver should wait.

If you're riding up Pneuma, exit at Special K [or lower] and take the road to the well site.

Local Trail Association

Moose Mountain Bike Trail Society (www.mmbts.com)
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More Stats for SHAFT mountain bike trail

Altitude change

-1,378 ft
Altitude min

5,099 ft
Altitude max

6,477 ft
Altitude start

6,477 ft
Altitude end

5,099 ft
Grade

-12.801%
Grade max

-108.661%
Grade min

7.43%
Distance climb

1,451 ft
Distance down

2 miles
Distance flat

210 ft
Avg time

00:16:01
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	date	description
	Oct 23, 2017 @ 1:17pm Oct 23, 2017	Great shape, dirt is a bit frozen is all
	Oct 6, 2017 @ 8:07pm Oct 6, 2017	Couple puddles, mostly dry
	Sep 30, 2017 @ 7:27pm Sep 30, 2017	Best conditions of the season
	Aug 17, 2017 @ 11:48am Aug 17, 2017	Bottom run out of Shaft patched up following Shell's pipeline replacement. The hip is running better but do take it easy at the end if you...
	Jun 24, 2017 @ 9:25pm Jun 24, 2017	Great

title	rating	distance
Ridgepackers Shaft Guy 7-27 Loop		19 miles
Pain train		31 miles
Moose Mtn - Pneuma/Shaft loop		12 miles
Pneuma to Shaft		8 miles

SHAFT

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