I figured the drive back wouldn’t yield much in the way of usable trip report photos, but what was supposed to be an 11-hour drive through the desert turned into a 14-hour junk show in all things sketchy- Complete results, in case you missed them: Qualifier: Women Men, Page 1 Men, Page 2 Finals: Women [...]
Bah! I know I’m about 2 days late with this post, but finals went off Saturday despite Ullr not cooperating and everything went more or less according to plan. Some amazing runs were thrown down (especially under the bamboo entrance on the far right of the venue) despite the last minute final’s mountain change and [...]
Friday was supposed to be semi-finals with Saturday being finals, but due to weather it had to be canceled. The bad news: the venue was changed to West Basin from the far superior Kachina Peak The good news: everyone that qualified made finals :p I’m wish I could have been doing this hike again instead [...]
Qualifiers for the Salmon Extreme Freeriding Championships is officially over. Pretty interesting event. Huge winds off the peak made it a pretty sketchy hike up. I actually missed my spot in the order by a few paces because of getting stuck on the ridge in the wind. Didn’t hurt me too bad though, I managed [...]
So we managed to roll into town at about midnight and post up at a hotel somewhere near the mouth of the canyon. We made it to the resort this morning and scoped what we thought would be the Day 1 venue, but halfway through the day patrollers announced the first (and likely every day’s) [...]
