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Atlantic Canada Trails | Mountain Biking | 🏆 Winner 2024 Parks Canada Sustainable Tourism Award
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That's a wrap on our last major event for the 2026 season!
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We've hosted radass riders from Atlantic Canada and beyond 👊 for competitive racing & just for fun

Which events did you attend? What do you want more of!?

SHE RAD Women's Adventure Festival
Super RAD Enduro Race
Super RAD XCM Coal Miner's Challenge
Super RAD Downhill Race
+ RAD Skills

Our Race Crew had a season of PRs and podiums x just getting to ride with rad people

Our Coaches leveled up and delivered our tried & tested Skills programs to riders of all ages

Our community continues to show up & grow, and that's what it has all been about since 2018

Thank you to our season sponsors, supporters, & partners
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Another weekend hike with Mum at the @mtbminto trails from a few weeks ago 💚🩵 Such a beautiful spot with lots of trails to explore!

& our first visit to @tinytrailsco to get a treat for both of us 🍺🍗

#gsd #hiking #hikingdog

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Dylan turns 13 tomorrow, and the only thing he’s asked for is a mountain bike. 🚵

He’s been looking for his thing for a while. We’ve tried a lot of them. Nothing quite took.

Then we spent a couple of weeks riding trails across New Brunswick, and somewhere in there it clicked. I’d watch him disappear ahead of me on a flow trail, whooping the whole way down, and know I wasn’t going to catch him. On the drives between trailheads he talked about lines and jumps and what he’d try next time. He was still talking about it when we got home.

That’s the part I didn’t expect from this trip.

We travel for a lot of reasons. Adventure, culture, the education you can’t get from a classroom. But every so often a place hands your kid something they carry back with them, and it stops being a trip and starts being a part of who they’re becoming.

He didn’t find a destination out there. He found a sport.

So there’s a bike in his future, and a lot of weekends where I’m going to be the one getting dropped.

Happy birthday, bud. 🎂

Have your kids ever picked up something on a trip that stuck with them long after you got home? I’d love to hear it 👇

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Is New Brunswick Canada's most underrated mountain biking province? I went in expecting decent forest trails. 🚵

Then my son braked so hard in front of me on a flow trail called Insanity Later that I nearly rode into the back of him. He'd stopped for a view: turquoise and emerald ponds below us that looked like the Rockies, sitting in the middle of a 400-year-old coal mine that fifty years of Acadian forest had swallowed whole.

My first thought was, why is nobody talking about this?

Here's what's actually in this province:

⛏️ Minto, 40km of fast, rootless flow built on reclaimed mining terrain. Whistler sees around 100,000 riders a year. Minto sees 4,000. We passed three people all day
🌋 Sugarloaf, Atlantic Canada's first lift-served bike park, designed by the same crew behind Whistler Bike Park, built on an extinct volcano
⛰️ Sentiers Madawaska, 1,589m of cumulative descent across 60km, starting two minutes from downtown Edmundston
🌲 Fundy National Park, one of the only national parks in Canada with a purpose-built bike network and a pump track under old-growth forest
🪨 Rockwood Park in Saint John, up to 56km of old-school rock and root inside one of the largest urban parks in North America

85% of New Brunswick is forest, the highest of any province, and you can drive across the whole thing in four hours. Coastal singletrack in the morning, lift-served downhill by afternoon.

Almost all of it is volunteer-built. Buy the trail pass. Join the club.

📌 Save this for your next riding trip
💬 Comment TRAILS and I'll send you the full guide to every region

Then tell me: what's the most underrated place you've ever ridden? 👇

📍 New Brunswick, Canada

#MountainBiking #NewBrunswick #MTBCanada #ExploreNB

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Fredericton’s got soul!

I’ve been visiting this city since I was a boy. It took taking my own kids to Fredericton to finally understand what this city’s all about.

On the surface, Fredericton comes across as a sleepy river town. But dive in deeper and it’s got the soul of an adventurer.

Fishing and kayaking on the Wolastoq (Saint John River), mountain biking single tracks in Killarney Lake and Minto, catching the free summer concert series at the Officers Square, and hitting up the largest concentration of breweries in the Maritimes in the evening.

Fredericton, i’m sorry it took so long. But I’m glad I’ve finally figured you out.

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Is Fredericton boring? I've been visiting this city since I was a kid, and I only recently figured out the answer.

It's a quiet city. It doesn't shout the way some cities do. But that slower pace hides a wild side most visitors never get the chance to see.

🛶 The Wolastoq (Saint John River) runs right through town and connects 23 paddling routes, all reachable from downtown
🐟 It's also one of the only rivers in North America where you can fish sturgeon, musky, and striped bass without pulling up anchor. My 12-year-old caught three sturgeon in one afternoon
🚵 There's singletrack mountain biking at Killarney Lake you can pedal to from downtown, and you can hit the beach to cool off afterward
⛰️ And 40 minutes out of town, 400 years of coal mining history has become one of the best mountain bike parks east of the Rockies
🍺 Post-adventure, the city has the highest concentration of craft breweries in the Maritimes to finish the day, most of them family-friendly

If you're planning a New Brunswick road trip or looking for family adventure travel in Atlantic Canada, this quiet capital deserves more than the one night most people give it.

📌 Save this for your trip planning
💬 Comment FRED, and I'll send you the full guide to the city and everything around it

📍 Fredericton, New Brunswick

#Fredericton #NewBrunswick #ExploreNB #AtlanticCanada

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Book a campsite for the weekend at @tinytrailsco and ride the @mtbminto trails.

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A little throwback to July at the Coal Miners Lung Revival MTB Challenge in Minto! 🏁⚡️

What a crew! Racers, volunteers, families, and trail friends all coming together for a pretty good day on the bike. 🤘

A huge THANK YOU to all of our sponsors and partners who helped make this event happen. We couldn’t do it without you! 🖤

And of course, thanks to everyone who came out and made the day what it was. Until the next one! 👊

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🌲 300 pine trees planted
🏃‍♀️ 115 inspiring runners
🤝25 dedicated volunteers
🥳 And a whole lot of fun

Thanks @backtrailsnb for sponsoring this giveaway, and congratulations Mark and Amelie on your new Oboz boots, ready for your next adventures on the trails.

The first edition of Mines to Pines trail race was something special. We’re so excited to keep growing together!

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🐿️👀 INTRODUCING THE NEWEST MEMBER OF OUR GOOFY-EYED COLLECTION! 👀🐿️

Meet our Cutie Squirrel! 🥰🌰
As we’re trying to savour these last few weeks of August ☀️🍂, our little squirrel has other plans! He’s been busy scurrying around, collecting his treasures, and stocking up for winter. 🌰🐿️

With those BIG goofy eyes, adorable little smile, and just the right amount of silly, he’s definitely ready for whatever winter throws his way! 😂❤️
Who else is trying to hold onto every last bit of summer while secretly preparing for fall? 🍁☀️
Another fun addition to our Goofy-Eyed Collection — because everything is better with a little attitude! 😜

#HappyHumbleDesigns #GoofyEyes #GoofyEyedCollection

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2026 Coal Miner’s Lung 🏁

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WOW! Congratulations to everyone who joined for the first edition of Mines to Pines Trail Races. Every runner, volunteer, supporter, and team member contributed to making this a special, heart-filled, memorable event. Thank you for showing up for each other and for being yourselves out there on the trails.

📸 The trail magic was captured beautifully by our official photographers On Trail Visuals, @sarahlamos and @jamesduffley. Photos are now available to download for free or to order prints of your favourites directly from their website, linked in our bio (https://www.ontrailvisuals.ca/minestopines)

We're also compiling a "community photos" album; send us your favourite pictures from the weekend to contact@trail emotion.com and we'll add yours to it. Don't forget to share a photo of your finish line tree seedling planted in the ground to be entered to win a pair of Oboz boots, thanks to our friends at Backtrails by the Radical Edge 🌲

Live results are available online at the link in our bio. Switch the category on the top of the page to view results for each event distance.

THANK YOU all so much! Stay tuned for next year's race date (yes, there will absolutely be a next year) 🥳

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