By: Jason Shen

Yesterday on August 10, 2023, I had my first bike race. The layout was mostly uphill and was 4 miles long. The hardest part about the race was the multiple short, but very steep and rocky uphill parts.

The race started at 5:30 pm but my team met at 4:00 to do the course once to be able to find the difficult areas and see how the layout was. The organizers stalled a bit at the starting line and because it was pretty cold everyone was a bit frustrated. I don’t know why or what they were waiting for.

The race took around 40 minutes, but when we finished there was pizza and a few drinks. When we started it was a bit confusing because there were a ton of people in one area but eventually everyone got spaced out and there were huge gaps between the people by the time people started to end.

We started at Chair 2 (link to map below), took downtown to chair 4, took the shotgun trail out, then went up a dirt trail that led to gopher trail. From the gopher trail we took paper route to uptown all the way up to Main Lodge when we then took downtown back to Chair 2.

Source:

https://www.mammothmountain.com/things-to-do/activities/bike-park/bike-park-trail-map(first image you can see the different runs)