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Was in Saunders yesterday. Had never been there before and thought we would check it out. Bumped into a guy who helped us out a bit on where to go but have more questions. We ended up turning left at the steel gates at the camp to get to the rail trail. Is that how guys usually go? If it gets muddy that hill would be tough to climb to get out once you drop in. We went in that way but when we left dropped in to the west of the rail trail which also was very steep and greasy. Just seems like there should be a easier way to hit the rail trail from the parking lot.
 

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Was in Saunders yesterday. Had never been there before and thought we would check it out. Bumped into a guy who helped us out a bit on where to go but have more questions. We ended up turning left at the steel gates at the camp to get to the rail trail. Is that how guys usually go? If it gets muddy that hill would be tough to climb to get out once you drop in. We went in that way but when we left dropped in to the west of the rail trail which also was very steep and greasy. Just seems like there should be a easier way to hit the rail trail from the parking lot.
What parking lot? always went to the bottom of the hill and set up down by the river.
 

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Yes down that hill to rail bed.
pin it to get up off rail bed
or ride ditch along hiway to the west.
get to a trail down to rail bed.
that is the easy way
 

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once on rail bed.
ride west to Nordegg
that hill off bed can be tough
trail off rail bed is easy to hiway
 

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Oh trail gets worse after that hill
the drop to rail bed is even steeper
 

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Oh trail gets worse after that hill
the drop to rail bed is even steeper
Was fairly easy on the way in but had a thunderstorm in the afternoon and the hills were so greasy. Had to slide down one hill and then climb back up on foot as my wife wasn’t super comfortable coming down on the bobsled run.
 

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So is the rail trail a snowmobile trail only in the winter or can we side x side in the winter?
 
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