Whiteswan Lake to Nipika Resort.....
The fifth stage left Whiteswan lake under broken skies and cool tempratures. The stage started off very fast. Fast, like a cross race fast.
Drive in for the support staff was really nice passing through a BC national park and up a forest service road 15k to the resort.
Tough last 7k of singletrack with narrow, off camber exposed singletrack keeping riders sharp until the very end of the stage.
There were several injuries on this fast course mostly involving crashes on the numerous water bars. The medivac helicopter was busy with a broken pelvis, serious head injury and broken collar bone and collapsed lung. Mel actually helped take care of the later injury for over four hours until medical personal were able respond to the incident.
Dan and Randy brushed off the previous flat prone stage and once again took the stage from the hard charging 100+ Kiwi team.
Drive in for the support staff was really nice passing through a BC national park and up a forest service road 15k to the resort.
Tough last 7k of singletrack with narrow, off camber exposed singletrack keeping riders sharp until the very end of the stage.
There were several injuries on this fast course mostly involving crashes on the numerous water bars. The medivac helicopter was busy with a broken pelvis, serious head injury and broken collar bone and collapsed lung. Mel actually helped take care of the later injury for over four hours until medical personal were able respond to the incident.
Dan and Randy brushed off the previous flat prone stage and once again took the stage from the hard charging 100+ Kiwi team.
posted by SGK at 7:23 PM
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