Anyone going to Mt. Snow NORBA?

[altagirl]

bump....

So what's the word? Anyone going to be up or racing? I'm registered for 19-24 Sport DH. Think I'll be up Thursday night - Saturday afternoon.

Mr.AG ended up having to go to LA until Wednesday for work, so we're out. We have some friends going, but no maggots.

Have fun!

[Dromond]

Since I live here and am not going, I could hardly reccomend flying out anyways. NORBA races are fun, but way too expensive, poorly managed, hyped, etc.

That said I might go race slalom anyways. Because, I mean, it's slalom! Like whoa!

[Big E]

Might want to check Southwest for Manchester - SLC flights.

I have nothing else to add.

[mildbill.]

Any word from MildBill?

as fun as it would be to ride with you guys my riding clothes don't have enough logos on them to be at a norba thing.

[crashnburn'd]

I can arrange a nice jersey for you too wear.

My clothes are all black. Maybe that's why I'm so slow....

[mildbill.]

all black and/or camo/black are also norba approved.

[crashnburn'd]

Seriously. If you wanna come, I can get a really nice yellow/red/white/black/orange jersey for you to wear. It's like camo, only brighter.

[Vinman]

when is it? And I might be able to make a trip down if i'm not working

[mildbill.]

Seriously.

oh, you were serious about the jersey loan?

sweet, i'm so there.

let's make up a team name. team wookin pa gnar? team never made varsity? team speed masters of radness?

[crashnburn'd]

This weekend Vin.

I'm already a member of Team Sledgehammer. We ride super fast and take our bikes sweet jumps in unison.

[mildbill.]

unison is the new barspin

[crashnburn'd]

unison is tough on singletrack, but we still pull it off.

[mildbill.]

way to progress the sport brah

[altagirl]

Mr.AG's NORBA results say he's sponsored by "work/DFL Racing". I'm sure he'd let you be on his team.

[Vinman]

Damn, working this saturday and racing a triathlon on sunday

[crashnburn'd]

well, I suck... The sport course was really fast and fun, but I was dumb and decided to take a bit different line in the race than I'd been doing in practice. It was straighter (cut out a little s curve) but it was tight in the trees. I guess I clipped a tree that I didn't see and wrecked. Time wise, I still didn't do too bad considering how long it took me to get going again, but I ended up 19th out of 23 or 24 who finished.

I think I need more colors and logos on my clothing so I can do better next time.

The expert/pro course has a ridiculously stupid rock garden at the end of it where lots of people were getting hurt (I heard of 5 or 6 serious crashes just from practice alone). It was the first time I'd been to Mt. Snow, but I guess it's in the course every year. Pretty much everyone I talked to hates it, but the organizers stick it in because it draws non-racing spectators...

Was anyone else there?

[Dromond]

I was there on Friday. I decided to excersize my right to not pay $50 to race on a completely grass slalom course, so I just watched this year. The Mount Snow management absolutely blows

On the plus side, one of my friends won his class in slalom, another won sport downhill, and my best friend got 3rd in 22-29 Expert DH. It was schweet.

Yeah the yardsale rockgarden is so dumb. It's not adding more difficulty to the course, just grossly exaggerated consequences. One guy come through there in practice to find another rider stopped on the course, this leaving him no choice but to steer straight into the rocks and fracture his tib-fib. I also personally saw someone pass out from shock. So lame

[trainnvain]

Mt Snow and NORBA need to get rid of the YardSale section. There is a B line but the organizers know it's just there for the spectators. Hell, there's plenty of pros that case hard on that section. Tough sections are one thing, but sections like that at the bottom of an already burly course with crash consequences that can lay people up for weeks or months is ridiculous.
Sorry to hear about the tree check, that course will do that.

[crashnburn'd]

I was there on Friday. I decided to excersize my right to not pay $50 to race on a completely grass slalom course, so I just watched this year. The Mount Snow management absolutely blows

All grass and a couple sandy berms... Looked pretty lame. Probably not going back next year, but figured I'd check it out.

[Dromond]

All grass and a couple sandy berms... Looked pretty lame. Probably not going back next year, but figured I'd check it out.

SO SO SANDY. It was like 3 people spent 45 minutes making that course. For a nationals race!! They probaby took in several thousand dollars in entry fees for that event, plus it was sponsored by Fox. Ridonculous.

[Mr. Altagirl]

Sorry to hear about all that. I do have to agree, NORBA really blows. I'm kinda glad that work kicked my ass the last week so we couldn't get out there. I have heard of quite a few good guys getting really hurt in the last rock section (Yard sale). For some reason, people who don't even ride are allowed to set up the courses and put in stuff that really doesn't add to the race other than give spectators a place to heckle and watch people get hurt. I like techy stuff but it still needs to be flowy, not just a mess thrown in with very little thought.

The dual courses have been very hit or miss; sounds like a miss again (Deer Valley was an absolute joke yet Snowmass and Brianhead were great; totally depends on the mountain management). I'm hoping Mammoth is good as I've already been thinking about changing up next year. If AG decides to go Pro, I might switch back to Sport and have fun again (and not give as much money to Norba).

And Bill, I know what you are saying. It is probably the thing I like least about the whole racing thing. I definitely don't fit in very well with the "group" but I want to ride with AG and see her do well so I go. I don't have any logo's (nobody will give me one) and I try very hard not to wear black but that is hard these days. I do like going to new places and riding DH, I just wish there was a better organization out there that could help.

Anyone going to Mammoth??

[crashnburn'd]

bill's just jealous because he doesn't look as good in black as I do.

[biggins]

Apparently, 'yard sale' was an unmittigated disaster. Many broken-off riders and a lot of anger directed towards Mt. Snow and NORBA. This post is from the moderator/founder of Hcor who races weekly up and down the east coast. Pretty lucid discussion of the problem:

http://www.hcor.net/postt23747.html

[stump832]

Can anyone confirm whether this is "yard sale"?




Yikes! Its hard to get a sense for scale and account for speed, but those boulders look like some pretty severe consequences.

[crashnburn'd]

That's the bottom of yardsale, but there was a much different line this year. That looks about like the alternate line from this year. Normal line this year was to come straight down the hill into that instead of coming across the hill. Bascially those rocks are at the bottom of the hill, so you're going full bore when you get to that section.

I'm glad I suck and raced the sport course... For the pro race they rerouted because of rain. From what I hear, their practice Sunday morning was bad.