Practice Thursday 10 Oct CANCELLED

Due to inclement weather practice is cancelled today. Stay tuned for weather updates about the race this upcoming Saturday.

Sponsor spotlight: Wasatch Touring

Wasatch Touring

702 E 100 S

Salt Lake City, UT

84111

801.359.9361

www.wasatchtouring.com

 

Wasatch Touring provides discounts and support for the SLC Conglomerate High School Mountain Bike Team.

 

 

Owners Dwight and Charlie grew up in Minnesota surrounded by Scandinavians who loved the outdoors, human powered travel and adventure, weather it be by ski, bike, paddle or foot. Their parents and neighbors encouraged all of them as kids to camp, skate, canoe, swim, ski and bike in and around the local countryside.

Charlie and Dwight Butler, owners of Wasatch Touring

They moved to Utah in 1972 to open a cross-country ski shop, Wasatch Touring. Their initial mission was to share the beauty of backcountry travel on skis, by offering rental gear and taking anyone they could enlist, up into the ski trails we were exploring in the Wasatch Mountains.

 

After three winters of closing shop for the summer, in 1975 they expanded into cycling and changed to a year round business. Shortly thereafter they purchased mountain bikes and became the first Specialized and the first mountain bicycle dealer in the State of Utah.

Wasatch Touring sells and rents Nordic skis, both skate and classic, but also offers Telemark and Alpine Touring (AT) skis with climbing skins. They sell, repair and rent split snowboards and snowshoes, have ski wax and tuning services and stock all the gear, clothing and accessories for everything from a Winter stroll up Mill Creek, to a ski decent of Lone Peak.

In the Summers they are a full service shop for both road and mountain bikes. Their road bike emphasis is on touring, commuting, and endurance riding. In mountain bikes are focused on cross-country and enduro riding, but they do employ a downhill-er, a jumper, a old BMX racer, as well as a former Cycle-cross racer from Iowa. They rent a range of mountain and road bikes appropriate for everything from a casual ride around town to a epic mountain trail ride. They recently added Tri Cross bikes to the rental/demo bike mix.

They offer bike fit, bike tools, maintenance and repair clinics, ski tuning, plastic boot repair, boot punching and fitting.

Supporting the NICA high school mountain bike race program fits with Wasatch Touring's enduring original mission of promoting human powered fun in the great outdoors!

 

 

Pics from race #2 Round Valley Round-up

Here are some pictures from last Saturday's race at Round Valley.

It was REALLY cold in the morning and the girls' race was muddy, but the boys had a blue bird day.

team tent

families that race together...

start of Freshman boys D2

Ryan's bike did not make it out unscathed.

Lia finishes top 5

Saturday's pre-ride of Snowbasin

It will be very cold tomorrow morning.  The forecast is for 43 degrees and sunny at 10 AM when we start riding.  Dress in layers - a lot of layers!

Leave ShopKo parking lot at 9 AM. Bring $4 for carpool money.  Return at 1:30 PM.

This page has the race flyer, the race course map, and the Snowbasin waiver you need to have before racing.

http://www.utahmtb.org/events/races/

Here is Snowbasin's website, where they have a resort-specific weather forecast.  Watch it this week.
http://www.snowbasin.com/

Today's practice CANCELLED

Due to inclement weather today's practice 10/3/2013 is canceled.

Race #2 takes shape

Surrounded by snow capped mountains the NICA Round Valley Race is starting to take shape. The temperatures are in the mid 40's with a strong wind drying out the course.

Tomorrow morning promises to be cold with an afternoon high temperature of 55 degrees. Dress warmly and don't forget your cowbells!

Practice Thursday 26 Sep….. Still on!!!!!

Yes there is a winter advisory, but coach Bethany is on the ground up there and says it still looks good.