Damn You! Silverton is so sick. You been there before?TheInedibleHulk said:I'll be in durango tommorow night, then shredding the gnarly pow at Silverton, its gonna sick sick sauce.
After sleeping on the ground in Missoula I'd agree. You almost convinced me to go there...hmmm...if only their B school was ranked as high as CUs...Kanter said:I went to the U of M and Missoula rocks. Missoula was rated #5 party school and in the top 10 towns for mountain biking. There are tons of trails and DH. It is truely an undiscovered mountain bike meca. There are many shuttles in the area. DHs ranging from 14-25 miles within 2 hours. Might just check it out. I think the school almost hit 20K students last year. Fernie is super close and Whistler is 9-10hours away. Silver Mountain has some riding by Spokane but not real great. Beacon in Spokane rocks. Rumor has it that Blacktail Ski Area might start building trails soon. Blacktail is about 1.5 hours from Missoula. There is sort of a DJ area up Deer Creek by the gravel pit and CWs place. Missoula is in the middle of it all plus it Montana.....
I had not been there before. This weekend (and next if youre interested), was boot packing. Basically, you walk over the starting zones to break up the layers and then you get to ski/ride the lower areas. Saturday was kinda lame, didnt get to ride anything good, but today was pretty sweet. The real reason for doing it though is a free ticket for any time in december or april.heikkihall said:Damn You! Silverton is so sick. You been there before?
Did that last year. Wish I could have done it again this year.TheInedibleHulk said:I had not been there before. This weekend (and next if youre interested), was boot packing. Basically, you walk over the starting zones to break up the layers and then you get to ski/ride the lower areas. Saturday was kinda lame, didnt get to ride anything good, but today was pretty sweet. The real reason for doing it though is a free ticket for any time in december or april.
Championship results are based purely upon the results of the championship race. Regional champions are based upon series points. XC and DH are worth the same, as are short track and mountain-x/dual.SylentK said:FYI: Here's the results of the top 5 schools competing in the Collegiate Mountainbike National Championships in Seven Springs, PA. I believe the results are based on a points system throughout the season. Apparently Cross Country races had the most weight in points.
This threads been dead for a long time now but I just found it. Jeff we did it for you buddy, you don't have to quite riding, we no where near killed FLC, it was about as tight as it possibly could of been, but yep CU is officially the Best. And I'm gonna start the shi-t talk back up and say our DH team is gonna beat FLC again next year, watch and see.neversummersnow said:I can promise if CU is healthy in 05 we will absolutly destroy FLC. Mark my words. I will quit racing if CU's mens DH team does not destroy FLC's mens DH team...
Nationals was a very close race. Next year its back to AngelFire and there will be some more great racing between the Colorado Schools. I will be back in action and hopefully will not be racing the entire fall on a broken wrist. Weve also got some new recruits and some returning students for next year. And next time if I hear word of someone poaching the course during non scheduled practice times I promise I will break some legs.Mike Buell said:This threads been dead for a long time now but I just found it. Jeff we did it for you buddy, you don't have to quite riding, we no where near killed FLC, it was about as tight as it possibly could of been, but yep CU is officially the Best. And I'm gonna start the shi-t talk back up and say our DH team is gonna beat FLC again next year, watch and see.
Same goes for the FLC team.heikkihall said:Nationals was a very close race. Next year its back to AngelFire and there will be some more great racing between the Colorado Schools. I will be back in action and hopefully will not be racing the entire fall on a broken wrist. Weve also got some new recruits and some returning students for next year. And next time if I hear word of someone poaching the course during non scheduled practice times I promise I will break some legs.
Yeah we only got the idea of taking an early morning practice run because lets see you guys did the same thing the year before. We were actually suprised we didn't see your guys on the course.heikkihall said:Nationals was a very close race. Next year its back to AngelFire and there will be some more great racing between the Colorado Schools. I will be back in action and hopefully will not be racing the entire fall on a broken wrist. Weve also got some new recruits and some returning students for next year. And next time if I hear word of someone poaching the course during non scheduled practice times I promise I will break some legs.
Just to clarify, from what we were told shuttling the course was perfectly ok, and on the morning of the race there were quite a few riders out there practicing besides us. It wasn't fair that we got a run on the morning of and you guys didnt, but gaining an unfair advantage was not anyones intention. On top of that... I was told that you guys did the same thing in 04. Anyway my practice run was clean and my race run was a disaster, so Im not sure how much it helped us anyway. It sucked that the whole thing got so f-ed up. Collegiate Nats has more drama than it needs already. Next year should be sick, at a way better venue with a way better organizer. The peple running the gravity events at 7springs didnt know the difference between mountaincross and cyclocross. 2003 nats at anglefire was awesome. so we should get more of the same.heikkihall said:Nationals was a very close race. Next year its back to AngelFire and there will be some more great racing between the Colorado Schools. I will be back in action and hopefully will not be racing the entire fall on a broken wrist. Weve also got some new recruits and some returning students for next year. And next time if I hear word of someone poaching the course during non scheduled practice times I promise I will break some legs.
Just to clarify. FLC has never done a practice run on the race course when there is no open practice. I did investigate to clarify and found out that last year they did a shuttle run on a fireroad as a warm up but were never on the course when they werent allowed to be, there is a big difference. Paul only got 4 total practice runs in '04 and still dominated.Mike Buell said:Yeah we only got the idea of taking an early morning practice run because lets see you guys did the same thing the year before.
I have no idea man check out the websight www.colorado.edu you can check out programs there, i know we do a lot of research in the phisical fields so maybe. I'm sure all the other schools have similar websights with all the info.big-ted said:Any of you guys know if any of these schools are big in optics? Particularly lidar and remote sensing. I'm beginning to get itchy feet with regards my doctorate here in the UK...
I have no idea man check out the websight www.colorado.edu you can check out programs there, i know we do a lot of research in the phisical fields so maybe. I'm sure all the other schools have similar websights with all the info.big-ted said:Any of you guys know if any of these schools are big in optics? Particularly lidar and remote sensing. I'm beginning to get itchy feet with regards my doctorate here in the UK...
I saw this and thought of you, haha:Mike Buell said:I have no idea man check out the websight www.colorado.edu you can check out programs there, i know we do a lot of research in the phisical fields so maybe. I'm sure all the other schools have similar websights with all the info.
This might help you here:big-ted said:Any of you guys know if any of these schools are big in optics? Particularly lidar and remote sensing. I'm beginning to get itchy feet with regards my doctorate here in the UK...
Those are old news man, 1st, 2nd and 3rd went FLC, CU, CSU respectively. Go to Colorado. I ride for CSU and have friends at both CU and FLC. Just incase you all forgot, Keystone is going to have a bad ass place to ride this next year, somewhat like Whistler and CSU and CU are both pretty damn close to it. Plus there are actually women at CU and CSU not just a bunch of dudes playing "who's is bigger" in random circle jerks. There ya go.SylentK said:FYI: Here's the results of the top 5 schools competing in the Collegiate Mountainbike National Championships in Seven Springs, PA. I believe the results are based on a points system throughout the season. Apparently Cross Country races had the most weight in points.
(Taken from CSU Cycling website) (CSU = Colorado State Univ) Just in case you Californians were getting anxious. http://lamar.colostate.edu/~bicycle/
1st Fort Lewis College (Colorado)
2nd CU Boulder (Colorado)
3rd Univ of Vermont (Vermont)
4th Mesa State College (Colorado)
5th Colorado State Univ (Colorado)
Notice a trend here? Yeah, Colorado schools dominate. Take it for what it's worth. It would be interesting to see where School of Mines ranked. They were probably too busy studying to go riding!!
Man I wish I were going to college for the first time.....oh the fun you will have!