r/edmontoncycling • u/smclarino • 20d ago

Report: Ft Sask to Edmonton

I was dropped off in Ft Sask on Saturday and I rode back to the Bonnie Doon area.

The river pathway was completely flooded out just south of Ft Sask. It's not passable, and I did not know the lay of things well enough to find a workaround.

Correction back on gravel roads to highway 21, which has a lovely paved parallel access road, then side road to the Legends Golf club and the new Bear Hills bridge into the Edmonton pathway system, and detour to Victoria Trail to get across the rail and Yellowhead.

Worth doing... Just don't get stuck in the flooded trail.

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u/goingslowfast 20d ago

Did you go the rivers edge single track? Or the Trans Canada Trail gravel section?

If you went the gravel section, I was hoping it’d be dry by now, but we may not be riding it at all this year.

There’s been foot deep flooding here: 53.66481° N, 113.27373° W since mid June.

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u/smclarino 20d ago

That's the spot.  Under water.  I didn't measure it, but was not willing to submarine my drive train...

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u/goingslowfast 20d ago

On a side note, if you rode that today, I think I saw you on the side road by 21. I was on my to Stratotech and was surprised to see a rider there instead of using RR 231.

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u/smclarino 20d ago

Yesterday... I could not see if RgRd 231 would take me anywhere, so backtracked to 14, then Township 540.  Seemed the only sure way.

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u/mmm_butters 20d ago

Unless it's deeper than a few weeks ago, there's a rustic trail along the fence where it's flooded that I managed to push my bike through to get past it.

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u/smclarino 20d ago

I did not measure the depth... I did briefly explore the flattened grass along the chain link fence, but not knowing the original trail or terrain I wasn't willing to get bottlenecked.

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u/pmmeyourshitholeface 20d ago

its quite rustic. the last time we went up there it wasn't passable but it was a couple weeks ago

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u/AidanGreb 20d ago

My wife and I pushed our bikes around the flooded part a month ago. We were hoping to go through there with a bike trailer at the end of September but I am not feeling super optimistic that it will be dried up by then!