February 11th, 2017 marks an historic milestone for Highland Mountain Bike Park. For the first time they will be opening up for fat biking!
Like all things Highland Mountain, the downhill park intends to come out swinging with a daylong event encompassing the best the fat bike world has to offer. Working in conjunction with neighboring fat bike party starters
MTBVT (you may know them from events such as Winterbike and Überwintern), the Highland event will be based largely on the
MTBVT format with organized group rides, a demo loop but with an H-land twist… DH laps and a DH fat bike race!
Yes folks, you heard it right, A DH FAT BIKE RACE! Making history twice in one day, Highland has planned a long descent connecting several of their iconic trails. The Highland trail crew will be sculpting snow on top of their dirt masterpieces to provide one of the most epic fat bike races to date.
Not a race type of rider? Multiple other trails will be groomed top to bottom for those looking for more leisurely descents as well as plenty of XC miles.
“We’ve been following the fat bike scene for a while now and thought it would be cool to run the lifts in the winter.” says event co-founder Dave Smutok. “I’m looking forward to extending our operations at Highland into the winter, it will be a great chance to get the
#highlandfamily back together with many new faces”.
The event will include an onsite demo garden, rentals through the bike shop, cafe, mid-mountain “CLIF Haus” sponsored by CLIF, campfire and apres entertainment at the lodge.
The DH Fat Bike Race is free with registration. The race will be one open class and based on single run timing. Prizes and glory await the fastest riders in this inaugural event.
Schedule: 7:00am Demo area setup
8:00am Registration/Lodge Open
9:00am Lifts start swinging
9:00am Vendor Garden opens
9:00am Race practice
12:00pm Race start
4:00pm Lifts close
4:30pm Awards
5:00pm Apre' Party
Event registration$43 pre-registration online
$49 day of registration
$22 junior registration (12 and under)
$27 junior day of registration (12 and under)
See
highlandmountain.com/winterwoolly for more info.
Register
here.
MENTIONS: @Highland-Mountain-Bike-Park
Seems fun as hell to me.
Now don't get me wrong...I'm not one of those "I'll never go back guys"..as soon as the trails are hard and fast I shelf the fatty and out comes the 29er!
I ended up getting 2nd overall which was sweet. I am on a blue Surly iCT with a red jacket. I make my appearance about half way through the vid as I pass on the inside
www.youtube.com/watch?v=6jhmFzV1Rqc
Depends on the snow
Oof course, this depends on which trail the race is on, which I actually don't know.