Hood river Enduro, day 1

Just got off the hill from day one of the Hood river Enduro. A little rainshower made things a little interesting today. Trails are still pretty dry, but with the addition of some slick spots on the hard pack corners. The riding here is so bad ass. Trails are awesome, some of the best enduro courses I've ever ran. There is some pedaling, but mostly a lot of really good singletrack. I'd say this is true enduro racing (except for the shuttles that take out the pedaling). Here's a few pics from the trail today.

View of Mt. Hood from the top. Oregon sucks.

Kona's Barry Wicks and Giant's Kelli Emmett at the start of stage 1

Scott Fellers, stoked as always!

Start of stage 1

Kyle Warner's broken frame

Cannondale/ WTB's crippled Ben Cruz, helping with timing and beer drinking

Even the transfer sections are sick!

Blue steel

View of the Columbia river from the end of stage 4

Kyle Warner's fixed frame! He rode all 4 stages like this today. Gnarly!

Trek's Jon Buckell finishing stage 4

Check back for results, and a day 2 post/pics!