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It doesn’t seem like that long ago we were racing the Snowies MTB Festival in New South Wales’ Snowy Mountains. Planned to be an annual event, organisers thought it would be ideal to run the three day, five stage race in conjunction with the ITU Cross Triathlon World Champs, which meant that the Snowies this […]
Looking at the schedule before the Snowies MTB festival started, I was unaware just how quickly 5 stages of racing could make 3 days disappear. Every day seemed to be action packed with either eating, warming up, or going full gas through exhilarating alpine singletrack! The final day of racing involved a return trip down […]
It looks like tomorrow I’ll be going into hell to build a snow man to make the time up on Andy and Kyle. But with many more kilometres to race at the Snowies MTB Festival, as always in stage racing, it’s still all to play for… – 6 hours earlier – Yesterday’s TT around Lake […]
Given my affection to mountains, my list of holiday destinations in Australia is not the longest. Living in Bright ticks one great area of the list, and one that I seem to be frequently ticking off these past few weeks is the Snowy Mountains. With the Thredbo National round last weekend done, it was back […]
One of the most exciting mountain bike stage races to launch recently has been the Snowies MTB Festival. Running over 3 days in the New South Wales Snowy Mountains, the event doesn’t travel ultra distances, or demand lots of time off work. But what it does offer is 5 stages of racing over 3 days, […]
Set on the roof of Australia, the Snowies Mountain Bike Festival is set to kick start an epic year of MTB racing for 2016. The 3 day/5 stage race takes in the amazing trails of Thredbo and Lake Crackenback Resort and Spa. With a total prize pool of $10,000 and over 100 km of […]
