The 6th and final stage of the Breck Epic is no soft ball. While it features fewer technical sections than previous days at only 30 miles in length the course is still 100% dirt and still well over 100 feet per mile of singletrack and dirt road climbing. Two ascents above 11,500 feet and a […]
Breck Epic Stage 5- (None Shall) Wheeler Pass
The shortest and penultimate stage of the Breck Epic also has the most grisly and harrowing reputation. The Wheeler Pass trail takes riders where race director Mike McCormack says “few people on earth ever go.” The remoteness of the high alpine traverse trail is immediately apparent simply by looking at a map. The Breck […]
Breck Epic Stage 4- Aqueduct trail
Stage 4 of the Breck Epic featured around 6,000 ft of climbing towards the town of Keystone. Riders would ascend out of town much the same way they departed two days prior before traversing towards the town of Keystone, up “Vomit Hill,” and then going up the gradual ascent of Keystone Gulch; gaining over 2,000ft […]
Breck Epic Stage 3- Send or be Sent
12050 feet (3672 m) is an inhospitable place. Breck Epic riders found out first hand on today’s 3rd stage of the 2018 Epic. Riders circumnavigated Mt Guyot via trail and primitive road; crossing the North American Continental Divide twice. The first climb up to the Divide took riders through Big French Pass at […]
Welcome to Brexico! Breck Epic 2018 Preview
Gold sent settlers into the Rocky Mountain’s “Ten Mile Range” in the 1850s, and Gold brings Americas most talented and stoked stage racers to the steeps of Breckenridge Colorado for the 10th Breck Epic stage race. The singletrack heavy 6 day race sends riders from the valley floor (9500 ft, 2900m) into the thin rocky […]