Recap: Pro GRT Round 4 - Snowshoe

The 4th stop of the 2014 Pro GRT brought us to Snowshoe, West Virginia for a weekend of super rocky racing.

Welcome to West Virginia where you can get a mothers day card and a spare pistol mag all in a one stop shop. Former homes and barns like this litter the rolling hills.

Flat city. Do you know how to set up ghetto tubeless?

Snowshoe trail crew hard at work on Thursday afternoon. The track was only open to walking on Thursday.

Snowshoe has a little more elevation than we're used to on the east coast. Abby takes in the view on the way back up.

With no real rain for the past week or so the flat sweeping corners out in the open got more and more dusty as practice went on.

Luca Cometti stuck behind traffic.

Luca took 5th on race day, his best National result this year.

Alex Willie in the upper woods. The contrast between bright sunlight and dark shadows in the dense woods makes seeing the square edge rocks hit or miss.

Cody Johnson in said rocks. It's all about staying light in the right spots to avoid pinching.

Pinging off rocks like these puts the hurt on hoops.

Kiran Mackinnon seeded first on Saturday. Unfortunately for Kiran he was a victim of the rocks on Sunday.

Not the ride anyone's looking for. The highs and lows.

Dylan Conte scrubbing off the road gap up top. Dylan seeded 6th and ended up in the same spot on Sunday finding 4 seconds in the woods.

Joshua Patton in the flat S turns up near the top.

Ben Furbee in the rock garden. Ben took 4th on Sunday.

Max Morgan pinned through the lower woods. Definitely the fastest section of the track. Max came out with a second place finish.

Luca Shaw skipping through the rocks. Luca seeded for first for the juniors but got a flat and ended up 5th.

Charlie Harrison kicking up rocks in practice. Charlie ended up second to his teammate Shane Leslie.

Shane leslie out of the gate and on his way to taking the top spot for the Juniors.

Junior X Podium: 1st Shane Leslie, 2nd Charlie Harrison, 3rd Matthew Fitzgerald, 4th Matthew Branney, 5th Luca Shaw.

Amanda Batty over the jumps in the lower woods. Amanda made her way to a 2nd place finish.

Rae Gandolf headed for 4th place.

Lauren Daney took the win for the women by a good margin.

Women's Pro Podium: 1st Lauren Daney, 2nd Amanda Batty, 3rd Alison Zimmer, 4th Rae Gandolf, 5th Elinor Wesner.

Logan Bingelli in the jungle. Logan came out in 3rd. 3rd, 4th, and 5th were all on the same second.

The top spot for the men went to Neko Mullaly with a time of 04:00.47, a full 8 seconds over second place.

Men's Pro Podium: 1st Neko Mullaly, 2nd Max Morgan, 3rd Logan Bingelli, 4th Ben Furbee, 5th Luca Cometti.

Neko ran his seeding run chainless, gotta be smooth to hold speed through rocks like this.

The 2014 Pro GRT is back next weekend July 18-20 at Beech Mountain, North Carolina for its 5th stop.