For athletes who did not make goal in the air on the last task of the 2025 Global Rescue XRedRocks but still powered on by foot for many things got pretty wet and cold as overdevelopment got pretty serious and the rain at times was torrential. Stephen Guyette, who won […]
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Day four of the race brought an action-packed finish- some fantastic flying and some really hard miles on foot. With another tricky forecast that predicted a lot of cloud and considerable overdevelopment later in the day the task committee decided to hitch up yet again to head to another launch […]
With deteriorating and dynamic weather today after two nearly perfect weather days (and a huge task yesterday) the task committee decided on using yet another launch (Monroe Peak) for a short task in all Divisions. We took all the athletes up to Monroe mid through a really surreal kind of […]
Our task committee took a look at the weather last night and collectively decided it was time to go big. For the Pros a 103 km task was set from the Koosharem valley up onto the Fish Lake High top and all way to Castle Dale, but on the way […]
The weather is perfect to kick of this 5th edition of the Global Rescue XRedRocks. Blue skies, no wind, the fall colors are POPPING and it’s time to race! The task committee decided to bring us down to Junction today, one of Utah’s classic morning launches for going big in […]
With yet another stellar forecast the task committee decided to keep things a little less aggressive on the final day with the hopes that we could get everyone back in decent time for a nice closing ceremony, some good food and a good sleep. All divisions would start the day […]
It didn’t seem possible to send our athletes into a more special place than we did yesterday, but today the task committee might have sent the benchmark for unbeatable beauty. We haven’t been to Mt Edna since year 1. It’s one the highest peak in Southern Utah (nearly 12,000′) and […]
Since the inception of the Global Rescue XRedRocks four years ago it has always been our dream to send our athletes out into the “Swell”, the desert to East of the Wasatch Plateau that encompasses some of Utah’s most incredible and famous natural wonders. Think Capital Reef, Goblin Valley, Escalante, […]
This is the 4th year of the Global Rescue XRedRocks and we haven’t had a forecast like we do this week since the first year. Today the task committee called a challenging task headed north from Cove for all three Divisions. It’s stable and a touch windy and going to […]
The countdown to the 2024 Global Rescue is officially on! In less than 5 months over 80 athletes will descend on Monroe to go hard in the amazing backcountry of Utah’s canyonlands. Let’s give the following athletes a big round of applause, they have some heavy training ahead! We will […]