Today's third stage of the Intermontane Challenge named the "Great Lakes Loop" was to include the highpoint of the 5-day stage race as well as the longest and most challenging descent of the event. Unfortunately, due to some overnight sabotage of the proposed course the race directors were forced to scrap Stage 3 and use an alternative route.
Read below as our Intermontane Challenge blogger Amanda Carey relays the early morning happenings:
Some local trail builder spent the evening throwing logs down onto the major downhill section of the course and removing trail markings. He was apparently upset that the race was running on a trail he built....the dynamics up here are really strange with both the presence and lack of approved trails, private land, etc. So, the stage has been moved to a 9:30 start, has been shortened to about 50K and is running backwards on the original loop. Chuck (Race Director) is heading out on his moto right now to remark the course...I think we are all in for an interesting day of route finding!
MTBracenews.com will have results from today's stage of the Intermontane Challenge as soon as they are available and Amanda's daily blog.
