McMurray Dirt Riders Association

This trip up north was the first trail ride of the 2010 season. There were only three participants but in any case it was an excellent outing. In total 120km were travelled. The majority of the terrain was beach type sand with some double track trail. We made it up to the Twin Lakes area and had to turn around due to range issues (hint hint to people with ATVs). Overall an excellent place to go riding.

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This track is from a morning of riding in the Rotary trails. We all went for a few parade laps, then we all rode for one hour straight. This is mostly practice for the upcoming harescrambles. You can view the altitude profile which is interesting. There was a lot of water on that day (eh Scott!?)... Scott found out his bike can't swim... Maybe waterwings? Anyway, these loops are good fun and recommended for anyone.

This is the track from a trail ride slightly north of town. We left from the staging area about 2 km North of Spruceland Lumber. We parked next to the transformer station and went riding up the valley hill and along the highway (up in the trail). There was quite a bit of muskeg and some creek crossings. If you don't mind getting the bike dirty you'll have lots of fun. Some nice hills too (check the altitude graph) If you'd swamp the bike and can't get it started be warned - it would be a very brutal push back to the truck.

The track shown below is of the approximately 1.5 hour excursion that Luc and Jason took on the 18th of April, 2009. The weather wasn't very good but good thing our tires were - the trails were slick as ice (the mud was - actual ice was still prevalent in spots!). We rode slowly around the drop off area, then rode down the abandoned railroad track, over the two bridges. All our stats are visible below for all of your viewing.

For information on how to post trails on mdramx.com (which any registered user has the ability to do), please contact Luc Gallant - luc@mdramx.com.