Rest Day #7 in Fernie

July 15th, 2026 was our seventh rest day.

We’ve intentionally slowed our pace a bit since we have plenty of time to make it to Banff, but staying there is expensive and difficult to make reservations. Fernie seemed like such a nice town we decided to rest a day here. We’ve ridden 4081 km and climbed close to 50000m. It’s looking like three more stages to Banff but that could change.

We rode into town for breakfast at the White Birch Café. What a great place! Three of us had Smoked salmon Bennies while Wytze had French toast. We relaxed for quite a while after eating.

We headed downtown and spent some more time at the bike shop’s cleaning station. We looked in but didn’t need to buy anything. All around town we keep seeing people cycling, more than any other place on the trip.

Afterwards Wytze and Andrew went for coffee. I rode home and bought some snacks. I watched some disc golf, got my bike ready to ride and did a little more laundry. Andrew and Wytze came back, afternoon naps… It’s a rough life on these rest days.

We all met Daniel at the Fernie Golf Club for dinner. We had a nice Indian dinner outside with a great view. The mountains around make it look like the Dolomites here. We rode downtown for dessert at a fancy ice cream shop. We noticed here again that the signs show one more scoop than can actually be ordered. In this case quadruple.

After dessert we rode home and watched a weird movie, Poor Things, then went to bed. I guess I’m ready to ride tomorrow but my legs feel a little tired.