Lovely trails but lot's of bikers! Even on a weekday morning.
The mountain bikers have created a number of new trails in the West Bragg Creek area (as well as a plethora off Hwy 66). I got curious about Merlin View from seeing it on the map on several ski trips. It lies immediately north of Moose Loop.
We left the cars at 9:30 an headed out Bragging Rights to the start of the Merlin View loop. I knew that we would see some cyclists but didn't expect anywhere near as many as we encountered. By doing Merlin view in a clockwise direction (as recommended on our website) we were able to see the cyclists in time to clear the trail. I wish that I had counted but I think that we must have seen over 40!
We took a nice lunch break around 11:30 near the high point of the trail.
We couldn't book our Kananaskis Conservation passes before we left, but they are available now at:
https://www.alberta.ca/kananaskis-conservation-pass.aspx
Many thanks to Douglas, and Sonja, for joining me on this "exploratory" trip, Carl (C/S).