Don’t get me wrong, I appreciate their work and as @BCM said, “It’s damned if you do, damned if you don’t” situation. Sitting in the taco shack that evening, locals shared that there were other options to the finish and my OnX Off-road app shows other options instead of the “B” route - don’t forget they closed off the logging area because it was a “quagmire” instead they send us through one. There was no guidance about what to expect in that “B” route stretch on the start line and lastly, all I read from the organizers is “it ain’t our fault” w no apologies and limited understanding. In one post one of the organizers said “here’s our other events so you don’t have to come to these either” - that’s not the attitude. My sympathy and complaints go out for the folks who don’t have home mechanic skills to save themselves a few hundred $’s and for the families stuck on the side of the trail hoping for a fun adventure while dads racing. I got my podium, coral placing and Leadville entry, all what I came for.
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