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Heh yall - I live in Bragg creek AB near the west Bragg creek trail system .

Any one else out there skiing fat tire bike trails ?! Hope to start chatting about it as my wife is real tired of hearing me rant and rave about hOW bloody fun it is , and that I never see any one else out there doing it. And how could those thing both be true .

It’s a blast , went out yesterday for my first ski of the season .

Gear yesterday : Asnes sverdrup 205s with Rossi XP12 .

Ask me about my modification plans for this boot - like to crank tele turns ? I do

Fastest speed on sverdrups 77kmh - last year at Peter lougheed provincial park . On groomed XC trail not fat tire

Any one living out near here and looking to explore this kind of skiing hope to hear from you !

Best

Manny

I ski West Bragg Creek too. I use the fatbike trails to access cut blocks to find turns. They're also pretty awesome if you get them on a fresh dump. Have also ran into the odd territorial fatbiker lol

I ski single track, but I hate to see fat bakes. Nothing f’s up snow like a fat bike. Hate em, hate em, hate em! That being said, they are multi use trails, so I always smile and say hello, and honestly wish them all the best.
However if you are a fat biker, I will never tell you about a trail I enjoy, but will share every trail I don’t ski.

Okay snowmobiles destroy thin cover, but fat bikes are allowed on non motorized trails. If there was an election I would vote to ban them on my trails.

However there isn’t, so I will be friendly.

Around here it's kind of a what came first the chicken or the egg? Our nordic center (bragg creek)consists of forestry trails repurposed for nordic ski trails originally. From there, summer mountain bikers built single track trails which were great for skiing in the winter and used for that purpose. Then came winter mountain biking. Many of these single track trails are now "groomed" for winter fatbiking with fat tired dirt bikes thus now while officially "multi use" trails, fatbikers assume ownership during the winter. And there's most certainly more of them than us now. Anyways, not like skis damage a fatbike groomed trail, so it's about the same as the tension between hikers and mtb'ers.

Lucas, just because I don’t like seeing them doesn’t mean I’m not friendly.
I do luv to see them suffer in deeper snow on the uphills. I really try to be sincere when I offer them support as I blow by them!
It’s public land.

I do quite bit of single track skiing around Sparwood area, the trails give easy access to FSR roads when I don’t have time to to go backcountry. I used to do it in Fernie but its become bumper to bumper snowshoeing and fat tire biking activity.

Still trying to figure what ski is best for those situations, kinda hoping the Koms give me the flexibility I’m looking for. Doesn’t matter what I use, I always have fun.

Not in southern Alberta, but I do love skiing mountain bike trails. Leave tracks on the wood features to confuse everyone.

I’m a cyclist.

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I relate to fisheater; don’t care for bikes on trails I ski on during winter. However, It’s important to be kind to one another and these are mixed use trails, so kindness spreads to and from all the different trail users and that’s a beautiful thing.

Lhartley, However, eludes to, “the tension between hikers and mtb’ers.” (that’s mostly a summer thing). It’s uncomfortable for hikers when mtn bikers deliver what they’re capable of, suddenly, sometimes with their associated attitude. Not good.

One thing I like in My region is the Wilderness Areas, (like Eagles Nest Wilderness Area for one example) where bicycles are not allowed throughout the U.S. If people don’t want to hike where mtn bikes are present, they have a way to escape that. THAT’S IMPORTANT. It's important to not take away that option.

NOW, though, I believe I understand there is an effort(s) started by some Utah people to legally change the law and allow bikes (mechanized vehicles or what ever the term is) into Wilderness Areas.

Not good. While I’m going to limit ranting about that, I want to say if other people are opposed to mechanized vehicles in Wilderness Areas, make efforts to keep that from happening. -that will include motorcycles, such as e-bikes.

It's my favorite thing to do on skis! There's a great low-angle trail that's groomed for fat bikes, hiking, and running. It doesn't get a lot of fat bike use but I think this year may be different with the explosion of e-fat bikes. They're banned but it doesn't seem to matter. At any rate, my favorite ski on the mountain bike trail is a short Voile Objective BC mounted with Transits and skied with old Scarpa F1. I, too, never see anyone skiing it, though I do see a lot of walkers, runners, dogs, and fat-bikes on the groomed track.

Manny mentioned Sverdrup and J.S.K is digging his Objectives. I’ve used Hoks (slooowww), Gammes (keep the skins on for descents, hairpins are scary as f*^k), Nansens (see previous), Ingstad (see previous), and Rossignol BC120’s (tried out both skin and kickwax for climbing) which were slightly more controllable on hairpins, etc. with plastic boots. Plan on trying the Koms with TTS pretty soon. Contemplating the Rossi with Xplore and Alpha (not so) Frees as well.

Inquiring minds want to know what works you?