It's a different kind of gnarly, for sure. There was nothing very technical about it, but you needed to be really comfortable floating loosely through those ugly turns up top - all super soft pumice dust festooned with hidden loose rocks big enough to kick your wheels right out from under you, and then you needed to be comfortable with drifting around on a fireroad in a full tuck at 50mph. It can feel almost serene until things go wrong.
Oct. 29, 2021, 10:38 a.m. - Mike Ferrentino
It's a different kind of gnarly, for sure. There was nothing very technical about it, but you needed to be really comfortable floating loosely through those ugly turns up top - all super soft pumice dust festooned with hidden loose rocks big enough to kick your wheels right out from under you, and then you needed to be comfortable with drifting around on a fireroad in a full tuck at 50mph. It can feel almost serene until things go wrong.