Rain delays and flooded trails The adventures of today actually started at about 5pm yesterday when the rain started to fall. A sprinkle at first became a howling mountain gale that raged through the night. The stiff wind blew the clouds eastward by morning, but the system had dropped over 100mm of water on the […]
Day One at the Snowies MTB Festival
Thanks to a lot of hard work from a lot of people, the 2021 Snowies MTB Festival is ON. It is tempting – so tempting – to draw some inspo from that poem (all the tried and noted riders… loved hard riding… hidden ground full of wombat holes…etc. etc.) but someone’s probably done that already […]
Snowies MTB Festival – a high fun factor in the alps
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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 […]
Snowies MTB Festival Wrap
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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 […]
Snowies MTB Festival Day 2
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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 […]