This is why you have to do a mass-start race once in your life: glacier chaos, high speed, crashes, crazy crowd and even riding over people! Thanks to helmetcams, you can now see those stories for real. Follow the full race and the chaos at Mountain of Hell mass-start race where Jamie Nicoll finished 1st and Fabien Cousinié 3rd.
A soft glacier this year.
Survivors' podiums.
The winning bike.
Disclaimer: The rules of the race is just to go down in between the pink arrow gates. After that you are free to do whatever you want on the trail or off the trail. The unlucky marshal never thought he was on a race line and this section was too steep for Jamie Nicoll to stop earlier. Luckily the marshal was OK.Full results
here.
MENTIONS:
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Sorry about this.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=yH8cu-xGwbo
What an amazing race!
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From what I've seen of this and Megavalanche, if he has not passed you yet you are in Jamie Nicoll's way and therefore maybe all the other riders should run rear view mirrors since I'm sure yelling "rider up" at 50kph in a full face in absolute chunder is no good.
As for the marshall? Maybe someone should have radio'd down to him that first riders were coming through.
Why not include a link to the results?
Not part of the polygon marketing but who is #2?
And yeah, standards are different in Europe, we don't use trucks to go to work/supermarket/bakery, shuttling is nearly inexistent, and so on (...)
Zede: Rocks and dirt and grass... yeah, exactly, the whole area has been pretty much destroyed by overuse, it could recover but will take a really long time and some intervention. The plants up there have a very short growing season and take a long time to recover. Without established plants the water tears up the ground and you end up with something like the moon. That is why there are often very strict "stay on trail" rules in alpine areas (the trail is sacrificed). When climbing and you must stomp plants in alpine areas its best for everyone to take their own trail to spread out the impact. The area around paradise at Mt Rainier is still recovering after 30+ years of keeping folks on trail. It once looked like the moon and is starting to look pretty descent:
www.flickr.com/photos/erinocraven/8075032929
Sorry I can't find a before picture.
Hey I'm fine with you Euros pooping all over their back yard, made a cool video. Just please don't do it 'round here.
Plus here in France they have National Parks which are massively protected and truly beautiful... can't even ride a bike in them (legally anyway)
@captaingrumpy You probably missed two things : absence of vegetation is mostly due to persistent snow and alps are not like every mountains.
i.e. in Colombia or in Mexico, at 3200m you still find some trees, but it stops at 2300m here.
Your mountains have some rainforest right? It's not the case the alps, so you can't compare.
I'm not saying that people are not responsible of these moon like space, but you really have to consider that the climate here is like : snow/cold > storms and hot weather