Are you ready for the Fall Thanksgiver' Series?! We sure are. Here are the details:

📆 You have from October 1st - October 11th to complete Rides #1 and #2.

📸 Take pictures at each checkpoint sign and send them along with your Strava (or other) screenshot to gccthanksgiver@gmail.com by Saturday October 11, 2025. You can also share your photos and videos by tagging us and hashtagging #goldencyclingclub (note: your profile needs to be public for us to see it).

 

Ride #1 (do NOT need to register):

Begins on October 1st (6.3km, 250m)

PRIZES: All juniors that participate will be entered into a best hand draw

https://www.trailforks.com/route/ride-1-the-fun-stuff/

✅ Start by going up Rodeo Drive from Reflection Lake

✅ Hook onto the Rotary trail through the Disc Golf Course and then head up 7up

✅ RIde along Bush Party and thenHead downhill on Berminator and enjoy the ride!!

✅ Follow the road down to the connector trail and go UP the woodlot ride to the start of Premature!

✅ Enjoy this fun jumpline all the way to Selkirk Slacker and take a hard LEFT

✅ Ride Selkirk Slacker to the new "Extra Cardit" trail and enjoy the trail the High School kids worked hard on the past few years :)

✅ Call it a day and relax!

 

Ride #2 (do NOT need to register):

Begins on October 4th 

PRIZES: All those who participate will get be entered into a best hand draw for some serious GCC swag.

JUNIORS: https://www.trailforks.com/route/ride-2-the-wrong-way-junior/

SENIORS: https://www.trailforks.com/route/ride-2-the-wrong-way-senior/

✅Park at Reflection Lake Parking Lot

✅Pedal your way up Rodeo Drive - Rotary Trail and then head up 7 Up

✅Turn left when you hit Mount 7 Road. Then pedal up Mount 7 Road

✅JUNIORS - Take the Mount 7 Road until you get to 3K 

✅ SENIORS - Take THE SCHACHER to 5K 

✅ BOTH ROUTES - Take a HARD left on to the double track and pedal to the landing at the top of Chute The Duck. Both Seniors and Juniors are the same after this point.

✅ Climb UP Huff AND PUFF - continue on Magic Dragon until you hit Trial and Error

✅ Take the high side of Trial And Error

✅ Pedal clockwise on Rock About

✅ Back on the low side of Trial And Error - continue low side of Magic Dragon until you reach Kobes

✅ Kobes clockwise

✅ Down Reflection Lake trail all the way to the road

✅ Back to the Reflection Lake Parking Lot

 

Ride #3 - Poker Ride (PLEASE REGISTER :))

October 11th!!

PRIZES: Everyone who participates in rides #1,2 AND 3 will be put in a draw for GCC Swag (20 prizes) & the grand prize will be a 21lb Turkey courtesy of Whispering Ranch.

Join us for the Annual ThanksGiver one-day poker ride on Saturday, October 12th!

Highlights include:

- Fresh crepes with maple syrup or Nutella in Nicholson. 

- An aid station with water, tools and first aid. 

- A grand prize for the best poker hand: a 21lb farm-raised turkey thanks to Whisper Ranch. Other prizes will be up for grabs as well.

- A well deserved after-party (location to be determined). 

- This year's Poker Ride will be a 40k Tour de Ville/Super Loop. If you haven't ridden a super loop before, you will be riding to the CBT network, riding through the Moonrakers network, cutting through Nicholson and stopping for Crepes, and then climb up to the mountain Shadows Network and through to bring you back home. 

 

The weather forecast is looking great so far, so get yourselves ready for a great day of riding!

POKER RIDE ROUTE: https://www.trailforks.com/route/ride-3-tour-de-ville-superloop/

 

✅ This one's a DOOZY and requires you to register, please! 

✅ Pay what you are able! A recommended minimum of $10 is suggested, but we know it's not possible for everyone. Here's what you get with your entry fee:

🕰🕰 Registration/Start @ 8:30 - 📍1222 11 Street South, Golden

Crepes half way through the ride in Nicholson!!

🔥🌭🍔 BBQ @ 📍1222 11 Street South afterwards

Prizes for the best poker hands! Lots of prizes!

Either ride to registration or park your car at College of the Rockies and cycle the last 100m.