Actually gone or just being reworked?
Snowshoe 2021
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it gone, long and low spectator crawlspace now
so effing mad i can't go this year...
Considering West Virginia I am surprised is isn't made from pallets or expired vaccines.
Sik Mik announced he’s retiring.
Cant say I didn’t see it coming, not like he’s really been a factor for the last few years, but he’s one of those guys I always enjoy watching race. Everybody and their brother gets called a legend these days, but he actually is one in my book.
Cant say I didn’t see it coming, not like he’s really been a factor for the last few years, but he’s one of those guys I always enjoy watching race. Everybody and their brother gets called a legend these days, but he actually is one in my book.
Gwin is at Snowshoe, but is not racing.
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Why Isn't Aaron Gwin Racing Snowshoe?
Aaron Gwin is in Snowshoe, West Virginia, for the final double-header round of the 2021 UCI Mountain Bike World Cup Downhill, but he is not racing. Aaron sustained a back injury a few weeks ago and does not feel up to the speed or intensity (pun : ) for a World Cup-level performance. Jack Rice...
I love to hear what the foreigners (Euros/Aussies/etc.) say and do when they get here to the states. It's always amusing to see, to them, what is just "so American"! LOL
I remember one year, maybe it was Windham, and they had a BBQ stand, and they interviewed some of the Euros and they were like "why is there so much sugar in this sauce, gross!"
Bernard's Pivot crew has it all figured out with renting the giant Nissan Titan, the Bass Pro shop and Walmart stop. 'merica!
How weird is the experience when the resort "base" is at the top of the hill and not at the bottom? That's just weird. Or is it just West Virginia?
I remember one year, maybe it was Windham, and they had a BBQ stand, and they interviewed some of the Euros and they were like "why is there so much sugar in this sauce, gross!"
Bernard's Pivot crew has it all figured out with renting the giant Nissan Titan, the Bass Pro shop and Walmart stop. 'merica!
How weird is the experience when the resort "base" is at the top of the hill and not at the bottom? That's just weird. Or is it just West Virginia?
I love to hear what the foreigners (Euros/Aussies/etc.) say and do when they get here to the states. It's always amusing to see, to them, what is just "so American"! LOL
I remember one year, maybe it was Windham, and they had a BBQ stand, and they interviewed some of the Euros and they were like "why is there so much sugar in this sauce, gross!"
Bernard's Pivot crew has it all figured out with renting the giant Nissan Titan, the Bass Pro shop and Walmart stop. 'merica!
How weird is the experience when the resort "base" is at the top of the hill and not at the bottom? That's just weird. Or is it just West Virginia?
It is a culture shock for me when I visit my father in West Virginia, and I lived in (civilized) Virginia for 16 years.
JT is one of my few mtb hero's, this further solidifies it! hahah, such a legend!I recall Lopes & crew being accused of cutting roots out under the moon light...
The best was when Johnny T told him to go back to his trailer and cry after the shirtless parking hero complained about the Purg couse being too steep up top.
the last time i was at my late great grandfathers farm deep in WVA it was like stepping back in time at least half a century.
Before she retired my step mother was a middle school teacher there and she said she had a few parents show up for Parent-Teacher conferences without shoes, and not because it was a nice summer day, but because they never wore shoes.
my great grandfather was a coal miner and subsistence farmer. his house didn't have indoor plumbing until around 1990.
I have a photo like that poking around. Will dig it up.
What did they do for work/food? How did they get around? And what about the winter time?
I can understand this in a tropical village, but not so much in America. Anyway, Americans, know thyself.
There are a lot of people like that who now have a bunch of money from gas/fracking leases on their land.
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I have the same questions
he passed away in the mid 90s.
out of curiosity(after watching track walk vids) checked ICU bed availability at the closest L1 and L2 trauma centers to snowshoe.
Be safe everyone
Be safe everyone
back when the us were relevant
andora 2008 was also on the top of the hill.I love to hear what the foreigners (Euros/Aussies/etc.) say and do when they get here to the states. It's always amusing to see, to them, what is just "so American"! LOL
I remember one year, maybe it was Windham, and they had a BBQ stand, and they interviewed some of the Euros and they were like "why is there so much sugar in this sauce, gross!"
Bernard's Pivot crew has it all figured out with renting the giant Nissan Titan, the Bass Pro shop and Walmart stop. 'merica!
How weird is the experience when the resort "base" is at the top of the hill and not at the bottom? That's just weird. Or is it just West Virginia?
Geez that track looks chunky. That jump between the trees reminds me of the dodgy course features we have here in Oz. Whats the weather forecast for the race?
I reckon if there was one overseas WC I'd love to go spectate for the atmosphere it would be Snowshoe.
I reckon if there was one overseas WC I'd love to go spectate for the atmosphere it would be Snowshoe.
Also said that Snowshoe is his
The country folk out there did it all themselves; grew and hunted their own food, built their own houses, etc. Many times their job was simply life and surviving it. Walking was how you got around (not much free time to go anywhere that far), there were usually a few cars in the "neighborhood" for emergency use. And boots in the winter for sure!
WV is a beautiful state, unfortunately large areas have been ruined by the coal industry, and lots of the population by opiates. Seems like it's trying to make a comeback by embracing outdoor recreation as a source of income as of late.
I was born in Elkins, WV and lived in a house with no electricity, no indoor plumbing and a coal stove for heating in the winter before moving to the Left Coast in 4th grade.
The country folk out there did it all themselves; grew and hunted their own food, built their own houses, etc. Many times their job was simply life and surviving it. Walking was how you got around (not much free time to go anywhere that far), there were usually a few cars in the "neighborhood" for emergency use. And boots in the winter for sure!
WV is a beautiful state, unfortunately large areas have been ruined by the coal industry, and lots of the population by opiates. Seems like it's trying to make a comeback by embracing outdoor recreation as a source of income as of late.
That last section looks jank af, anyone who keeps speed down there will gain 2secs, easy.
with snowshoe being a decidedly non-euro style course, who's updating their pb fantasy league?
we could be drinking at snowshoe right now.
these exhibitions don't curate, press preview, tour, lecture, and open themselves, unfortunately.
and world cup races don't drunkenly spectate themselves.
these exhibitions don't curate, press preview, tour, lecture, and open themselves, unfortunately.