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There’s something to be said for being weird. It’s a matter of perspective, and perhaps it’s a matter of the type of “weird,...
Words by Ben Haggar | Photos by Mattias Fredriksson
Above town, from the viewpoint on Saasak’ Hill, the Nisga’a Memorial Lava Beds stretch as a flat expanse between dark green mountains. The scene is stunning; it’s part of what attracts mountain bikers to northern B.C. as they search further afield from popular, well-trodden trail towns to the south.
Highway 16 traverses western Canada and, in this part of northern B.C., it cuts through every major mountain range and ecosystem from the Rockies to the Pacific. This diversity of terrain is punctuated by small communities—each with their own cultural flavor and trail networks, all emanating the same distinct lack of pretension.
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