The Pro Division pilots are on their way to the P33 turn point, 22 miles south of Cove, and William Pardis remains well out front but he’s low working in the terrain that connects the two sides of the valley. Bill Belcourt is chasing hard, but is also really low, […]
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William has pushed out into the flats, several pilots are soaring the cove bowl, the rest of the field is patiently watching the sky. We’re getting a lot of shade – what’s the move???
All our athletes have arrived at launch! It is COLD up here and everyone is getting refueled and dressed up for a good day of flying we hope! Nice clouds are popping to our east and there is a lot of discussion of WHEN to go…
The first 5 athletes have arrived- ALL from Colorado and ALL in the Adventure class! Erik Klammer arrived in a remarkable 1:26- 4.2 miles and 3400′ of vertical ascent! COOKING! Eric was followed very closely by Isaac Lammers, Taylor Rice, and Carl Marvin was tied with Jared Scheid. Nice work […]
And they are off! After a task briefing the athletes are setting off for the Cove Launch from the Main LZ at the Rodeo Grounds to put their skills to the test for day 1! Follow along on live tracking as the groups are taking very different routes!
6:50 am, Thursday September 30th. The Task Committee (Reavis Sutphin-Gray, Bill Belcourt, Matt Dadam) has just arrived at the farm in Monroe and we’re thinking pretty big today! Here’s what Reavis sees in the forecast today: In short, it should be REALLY good. We’ve got some NE on the peaks […]
Day 1 of the XRedRocks starts in 90 minutes! We had a great race briefing last night at the Richfield Fairgrounds, then I (Gavin) tried to entertain with some X-Alps stories and hopefully everyone got a great sleep before three days of going hard! The weather looks awesome the next […]