Roadtrip: Revelstoke - Frisby Ridge

We decided to head up to Frisby Ridge to get a ride in and made a false start by heading up a beat up logging road.  After turning around several miles in and a near miss by one of said logging trucks, we found what we thought might be the right FS road and started going up- unsure because there were no marked signs.  We climbed a rather steep gravel road for 9 km and had views overlooking the entire valley.  As we pulled in to the parking lot we were surprised to see that despite the rough journey to get there, we were far from the only ones there!  Several groups had just gotten back and one couple was also heading up.  The skies were starting to look pretty ominous, more obvious when you are on top of a ridge and feel like you are in the sky!.  Because we had come all the way up there, we decided to tempt fate and give it a go. 

The trail immediately starts climbing, and though it is steady climbing, it is not technically difficult and is rideable even by me.  After about fifteen minutes we started to feel a light drizzle and heard thunder, but no lightning.  We continued on, telling ourselves we would turn back if we saw lightning or the rain got worse, but luckily the weather was passing through and it actually started to clear up right around the time we started getting some views.  And boy do I mean views!  360 degree, mountains all around, stunning panorama that words and photos cannot do justice.  After the climbing there was a somewhat anticlimactic descent to a lake, and then the short climb back out and we were descending.  Though it didn’t seem like the climbing was steep, we had gained enough elevation for a very fast descent, which was super fun and as flowy as any riding in BC.  This ride was to become our favorite ride of the trip, and definitely worth doing.  Apparently we finished just in time, too, because as we were driving back to the campsite after getting some groceries, we looked up at where we had been riding and saw that it was storming like crazy exactly where we had been an hour or so before.

Due to location, views, ride, etc, this particular ride probably ranks as one of my top 10 rides ever...amazing....words cannot do this ride justice.  This was by far the most spectacular trail that we did on our road trip and as they say...a picture is worth a butt load of words, so lots of pix below: