Help build the Cross Vermont Trail by running or cycling 15, 30 or 60 miles on scenic dirt roads through productive farms and woodlands! The Central Vermont Cycling Tour, Formerly the Eco Bike Tour, will start at Morse Farm and make loops through the beautiful fields and farms in the area. Registration includes great local food at a post-ride buffet, convenient rest stops, well marked courses and fun. New for this year is a time clock, allowing riders to set goals and partake in a little friendly competition.
The Tour options:
- The Short Tour (14 miles) starts at 10AM. This course is 88% gravel/dirt, is great for families with children (no big climbs), and has 1 rest stop.
- The Medium Tour (33 miles) starts at 10AM. This course is 83% gravel/dirt, has about 3,000′ of climbing, and 3 rest stops.
- The Long Tour (59 miles) starts at 9AM. This course is 91% gravel/dirt, has approx 6,020′ of climbing, and 3 rest stops.
- Runners (14 and 33 miles) Run with the bikers! Both running options start at 9am.
- All riders & runners must sign in on the day of the event, rider and runner check-in begins at 8:00 AM. Please plan on arriving 30-45 minutes before your tour begins.
And an added bonus, bring your bike to Onion River Sports, with proof of registration, for a discounted pre-ride tune-up! We will also be donating a bike for a raffle, so enter to win something great (exact model to be determined). Other great raffle items donated by Millstone Trails, Kingdom Trails, and Slopestyle Ski and Ride in Montpelier.
Registration is now open! Registration fees: $75 (family), $60 (individual) and $30 (junior) with discounts for early registration. Free for children 12 or under. Venue opens at 8 AM.
For more information, contact Eric Scharnberg, 802-498-0079, eric@crossvermont.org or visit our website http://www.centralvtcyclingtour.org/.
Sponsored by Cross Vermont Trail Association, Onion River Sports, Morse Farm Sugar Works, Vermont Farm Tours, Magic House, Misty Knoll Chicken and many others.
August 11, 2012
11th Annual Harpoon Point to Point to benefit the Vermont Food bank
25, 50 or 115 miles
The Harpoon Point to Point is a day of bicycle rides across the state of Vermont to benefit the Vermont Food bank. The 115-mile ride starts at the Catamount Family Center in Williston, the 50-mile ride in Bethel and the 25-mile ride is an out and back from the Harpoon Brewery in Windsor. All riders finish at the Harpoon Brewery for a BBQ with fresh Harpoon beer.
More info: hp2p@harpoonbrewery.com, www.harpoonpointtopoint.com
Looking for an adventure? Test your backcountry endurance with this exciting mid winter event. For more information visit the web site.
Join us for the Catamount Trail Association 4th Annual Get Out and Backcountry Ski Festival on Sunday, January 22nd. We will be there with backcountry ski and boot demos for participants to use. This is a pre-registration event so sign up early to reserve your spot! For more info Click Here
Mother Nature tried her best to stop the running of the 13th Annual Stark Mountain Hill Climb held on October 1, 2011 at Mad River Glen, Fayston, Vermont. The event is sponsored by the Stark Mountain Foundation and was a fundraiser this year for the Green Mountain Club’s trail work on the Stark Mountain section of the Long Trail. Runners had the option of also competing in the Allen Clark Hill Climb (bike) the following day which raised funds for Vermont Adaptive Ski and Sports. Competitors in both events qualified for duathlete awards.
The event is a one mile vertical climb to the summit of Stark Mountain. Runners choose their route. This year the wind howled, the rain pelted, temperatures dropped below freezing at the summit, and for the first time the chairlift had to be closed down because of extreme wind gusts. Consequently the runners were not able to take advantage of a ride down on Mad River’s historic single chair after their summit bids. Instead they had to walk or run back to the base. Mad River Ski Patrol came to the rescue and motored clothing to the summit for the runners to wear on their return. Of 29 starters, 26 finished, all reaching the summit despite the weather and slippery conditions in under one hour.
Both the male and female defending champions returned, as well as the women’s current course record holder Audrey Huffman of Waitsfield, and Harriott Shea of East Montpelier who held the women’s record for years before Huffman stole it in 2010 with a time of 29:40.35.
The women’s competition was sizzling. Four women placed in the top 10 overall. Huffman and Shea were just one minute apart with last year’s second place winner, Laurie Greenberg of Warren, breathing down their necks. Huffman and men’s repeat winner Terry Kellogg proceeded to compete in the Allen Clark Hill Climb the next day and defend their titles as top duathletes. Kellogg’s winning run time was 28:20.06 and duathlon time 56:53.00. Huffman’s run time of 31:32.48 and duathlon time of 1:03:48.68, placed her third overall amongst five duathlon finishers. The duathlon finishers included Kellogg, Huffman, Patrick Campbell 2nd, Jon Jamieson 4th and John Himmelsbach 5th.
Awards also went to Mark Smith of Williston, Vermont as first male Senior, Jon Jamieson of Waitsfield as first male Master, Laura Farrell of Stowe as 1st female Senior and Alan Villemaire of Windham, New Hampshire 1st male Veteran (over 70). Full results are posted with this release and on the Stark Mountain Foundation website, www.starkmountain.org and www.coolrunning.com or contact Race Director Dot Helling, ultradot@myfairpoint.net
Next year’s tentative date for the 14th Annual Stark Mountain Hill Climb is October 6, 2012. Mark your calendars!!!
By Dot Helling, October 3, 2011
It’s a little known fact that our own Scott Baker, bike-parts-buyer-and-helpful-guy-extraordinaire, is also a musician. We all know because it used to be that if you were stuck in the shop after closing hours, you were guaranteed to hear some awesome music coming from the basement – word is that he and his band (which includes some other fantastic ORS employees) have upgraded to a bigger, sound enhancing, warehouse space – but the memories remain.
And it’s with that introduction that I point you to today’s 7Days article about Scott’s side project, State & Main Records, and they’re first CD release. The disc is a compilation of Montpelier musicians entitled State and Main Records: Volume I, and is available at Buch Spieler. Congratulations to Scott and the rest of the Golden Dome Musicians Collective on their hard work. Help us congratulate them at the album listening party this Saturday, February 19, at Montpelier’s Buch Spieler Records. There’s a CD-release celebration and show later that night at Langdon Street Café!
