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| Time to Climb! It’s Rando Rally Season |
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| Written by Peter Kray / MtnPressWorld.com | |
Thursday, 05 February 2009 09:19 |
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 Crested Butte, Colo. (Mtn Press)-Ready to bust a gut? Want to take your backcountry slogging skills in-bounds to find out how you match up with all
of the other iron-lunged long trekkers in your mountain neighborhood? Well there’s no better time than the present, with a whole new series of Randonnee Rallies about to sweep across North America. Here is a short list of some of our favorites. Be sure and let us know where you think the best snow climbing comps are this year.
Crested Butte, Colorado The Colorado classic is on for February 7th, 2009. Registration is Friday 5-7 pm in The Elevation Hotel at the base area of CB. Registration will be in either the Alpine or Floresta rooms, follow orange course marking arrows to the room. Entry fee of $70 includes a lift ticket, post-race meal @ 4 pm and a raffle ticket.
Crystal Mountain, Washington VertFest is a celebration of human powered adventure in the Cascade Mountains of Washington – a chance to gather with the community of like-minded adventurers who love a challenge and an opportunity to spend the day on the snow together. It’s about getting some vertical under our hard working legs, feeling the pull of gravity, and celebrating the culture of backcountry adventure, which the gang at Outdoor Research likes to call VertiCulture. Here are the dates for the Crystal Mountain portion (there is also one at Alpental). Saturday Febuary 28, 2009
Saddleback Mountain, Maine For those of you skinners on the East Coast, on Saturday, February 28, Saddleback Mountain will be hosting the first annual Saddleback Mountain Challenge. This event is a classic ski mountaineering race. Competitors will navigate a route that gains approximately 1800 vertical feet, is over seven miles long, includes green, blue, black, and double black terrain and encompasses the entire skiing boundary of Saddleback Mountain. This is a monster of a race that will resonate with the sturdy, experienced ski mountaineer.
Alta, Utah The PowderKeg is one of the granddaddies of them all, with a full compliment of hard charging uphillers who train daily in the amazing Wasatch terrain. Whether it’s a powder day or bluebird, this race goes on over some of the Rocky Mountains most incredible terrain. This year the new course will start at the Wildcat/Collins Base and end at Albion Base. The bumps are back, so get your technical skinning game on ‘cause it’s not a Nordic race. The race division will have a section of moguls. Everyone gets The Boot. There is a shared booting section up to the Patsy Marley Ridge for both Race & Rec courses. You can pre-register by March 2, 2009. Pre-registered racers will receive a 2009 Wasatch Powder Keg T-shirt. Mandatory Pre-Race Meeting: Friday, March 13, 6:30 PM Check-in, packet pickup, race briefing Race: Saturday, March 14, 7:30 AM Racer Check-in (gear check): 6:30 AM All racers must be checked in by 7:00 AM |