The small town of Prince George?? Did the person writing that Freehub article even bother to visit this area? lol

“The small town of Prince George”
Prospective I guess. If you’re from a city of over a million, PG would seem small

Great news, we also have quadding snowmobiling and river rafting. Which some signs have been posted trying to ban them.

Hamlet, village, town, city?

Are we a town or a city?

City’s are generally considered to have minimum size of 50,000 in North America before being called a city rather than a town.

Thus, if the promotion were to use common language we would be a large town or a small city.

We are most certainly not a small town. But hey, if it brings on the outdoor tourists who want to get away from larger urban areas, who cares. Prince George, by any other name is still Prince George.

So I went to the site …. what can one expect of a site that spells Renaissance “Reniassance” …. LOL … sort of the norm for media writers today.

Watched the video …. great video!!

Now what is needed is for Northern Tourism and Tourism BC to put suggested itineraries in place if they have not already done so.

We used to do all this stuff when we were kids with an old CCM bike. Ride all summer through wind, rain, sunshine, water puddles, etc; etc; We called it fun.

In hindsight riding along the edge of the cut banks at high speed, probably was not very bright, however it seemed to be *ok* at the time.

“Prince George, Fort St. James, Burns Lake, Smithers and Terrace.”
Northern B.C., eh?
Hope they try some riding in Ft. Nelson, Atlin, Dease Lake this year.

City’s are generally considered to have minimum size of 50,000 in North America before being called a city rather than a town….. Not so . It’s 10K

Hahaha, yep he did. I just happened to be starting my ride at Pidherny & ran into the crew that was shooting this feature. Great bunch of people that were super stoked on coming back to explore our area & had nothing but great things to say about the quality of our trails, which as an aside, are world class. What our trails lack in elevation gain or loss are more than compensated by their construction & full utilization of terrain. The only thing that stands out is that we are not in northern BC, we are in central BC. The video is also on pinkbike.com under the heading Northern BC’s Bike-Powered Renaissance.

Anything north of Hope is Northern BC, except the Island, Whistler, Kelowna. Gets confusing for those west of Hope.

Pal, did you have balloon tires on that CCM? They held the trails pretty good, brother had a lot of fun on it. Thing is nobody rode bikes in the winter time way back when, now they got studs? Wow!

Yup. Balloon tires.

Pidherny trails are world class IMO, but the best trails in Northern BC are I think are in Burns Lake. I was blown away at what they have there for mountain biking trails when I was going through the area last summer. Just as good a trail as anywhere else in BC.

Yep Eagleone, the trail system that Burns Lake has built are phenomenal. You have to admire the vision that a few had that has turned that area into a biking destination. One thing about PG trails (not just Pidherny, check out trailforks.com for a wider scope of trails in PG) is that they are totally done by hand, no machinery involved. People like the Hagens & Ed Day who have almost single handedly transformed Otway’s single track, or the builders of the trails that are popping up in the Greenway/Forests for the World area are a testament to PGs can do attitude. I’ve been lucky enough to bike all over BC & Alberta, we truly live in outdoor Nirvana, there are some absolutely spectacular places to see & enjoy. PG can hold their heads up, our trails rank up there with some of the best places to bike.