The Brewer Creek - Panorama ride is described in the latest Doug Eastcott’s classic Backcountry Biking in the Canadian Rockies guidebook. An online sampler of this can be found at trails.com. Parts of the Brewer Creek single track and trail were used for the 1st day of the 2008 - Trans Rockies mountain bike stage race. As the Trans Rockies is a glorified road race on dirt, it’ll be interesting to hear the reaction of the participants to tough alpine singletrack and hike-a-bike.
We set out to ride Brewer Creek mid-way through a week’s vacation in the Rockies (For more pictures and rides check here). At the time we had no idea that the trans rockies would go through such technical terrain. The trail itself is a decent distance of almost 25km ending with a 1000m descent on lovely singletrack. The riding and pushing your bike part takes place at a fairly decent elevation of above 1800m - the prize is a ride in the alpine!
Be forewarned that getting to the trailhead involves a pretty long shuttle of 47km on 2WD logging roads. We dropped one of our vehicles at the base area at Panorama ski resort close to the tennis courts. We then drove to the trailhead.
