Just a quick update on the condition of the Snowshoe course.
I did the race in '01, and decided not to go back in '02 cause the course sucked, as did about 100 teams. Well, I'm gonna wrench for a vet team in '03 (if they hold the race) and decided to go up and ride with them earlier in the month.
The course is in much better shape than it was in '01. The trail along the Trout Stream, remember how screwed up that was? Only about 1/4 of it was in the same condition, the rest has had aggregate added to it and we were FLYING along the creek this time. Same for the rest of the trail. I remember walking/running about 70% of the time on '01. I rode about 75-80% of the course this trip, and we FLEW on most of it, espically IMBAlicious. Granted, the nasty technical stuff is still nasty and technical, but at least more of the course is ridable this year.
All in all, the course is much better than what I remembered in '01. Hope to see some of y'all up there this year.
I did the race in '01, and decided not to go back in '02 cause the course sucked, as did about 100 teams. Well, I'm gonna wrench for a vet team in '03 (if they hold the race) and decided to go up and ride with them earlier in the month.
The course is in much better shape than it was in '01. The trail along the Trout Stream, remember how screwed up that was? Only about 1/4 of it was in the same condition, the rest has had aggregate added to it and we were FLYING along the creek this time. Same for the rest of the trail. I remember walking/running about 70% of the time on '01. I rode about 75-80% of the course this trip, and we FLEW on most of it, espically IMBAlicious. Granted, the nasty technical stuff is still nasty and technical, but at least more of the course is ridable this year.
All in all, the course is much better than what I remembered in '01. Hope to see some of y'all up there this year.