Wow, no I hadn't seen that route before, that's unreal.
Thanks for the replies guys that'll give me plenty to go at.
Cheers
James

Hi all, new here so apologies if I am asking something that has been covered before and please feel free to direct me to an old thread.
I'm flying out to start the Great Divide route from Banff in a few days time and I'm doing it on a full suspension trail bike that is set up to tackle fairly burly trails even fully loaded. I'm hoping someone can recommend any good reroutes that will follow single track rather than fire roads or any good places I can stop and ride along the way. I'm already planning on stopping in Fernie and unloading my bags then riding trails for a couple days but any other recommendations would be much appreciated.
I'm also fully aware that I will be riding a lot of fire roads and easy trails which is fine but if I can spice it up anywhere along the way even better. I normally ride Enduro/ freeride so I'm thinking that much (technically) easy gravel riding might get a bit dull after a while. I've downloaded the route from bike packing.com's page and was planning on following that roughly but if there are better options I'm all ears.

Many thanks
James