Rss/XmlTRIOBA Sprint Offers Hike-a-Bike Sections
Photo by Mike Bitton
A competitor in the TRIOBA Sprint adventure race experiences a "hike-a-bike" section of the mountain bike course.
Ah, TRIOBA. The very name conjures images like the one you see above. Justin and Joel Yeager, the fiendish race directors at Washington state's TRIOBA adventure racing series, have been serving up their special blend of difficult and impossible for several years now. Rookie Rampage was supposed to race in the May 19 TRIOBA Sprint, but we missed the registration deadline and the race was already full, according to Justin. With considerable egg on my face, I offered to volunteer for the race, because it really is our neighborhood adventure racing series, and we gotta represent, right? Justin ended up using me in a familiar role -- that of photographer. You can see a gallery of my images here.
It was great to see familiar faces before, during and after the race. The next TRIOBA is a 12-hour event, scheduled for July 14 at Snoqualmie Pass, Wash. That's a venue Rookie Rampage has experienced before, at the 4th Dimension Adventure Racing winter race back in January. Wouldn't it be nice to see some of the same terrain? That sure would help make our navigation choices easier!
