Registration: If you haven't already registered for the downhill, you are out of luck. DH registeration filled up in about a week after being opened. However, it looks like you can still register for the cross country point to point race.
Schedule: Downieville runs over four days, but all the racing is Saturday and Sunday. Here's the abbreviated agenda:
ThursdayCourses:Friday
- Trail Pre-ride Shuttles (9 AM, 12 noon, 3 PM): Shuttle service to Packer Saddle for those riders wanting a sample of Downieville’s finest singletrack descents. Both the cross country and downhill race courses will be flagged for pre-rides. Cost is $15.00 per shuttle.
Saturday
- Trail Pre-ride Shuttle (9 AM, 12 noon, 3 PM)
Sunday
- Downieville Downhill Race (Packer Saddle at 9:30am)
- Trail Shuttle (after DH: 1 PM, 3 PM)
- Bicycle Expo / Street Fair
- Ron's House O' Big Air River Jump
- Live Music by The SaddleTramps (Downieville Fire House at 8:00pm)
More information is available here.
- Point to Point Race - Sierra City at 9:30am
- Bicycle Expo / Street Fair
- Downhill: Plunging 4,700' in 15 miles from Packers Saddle, you hurdle into Downieville. Here is the course description and a map. You can also measure yourself up against last years' winner (and current record holder) Mark Weir over at Motionbased.
- Cross country (XC) point to point: Starting from Sierra City, you will have a massive climb then descend for miles back into Downieville. Here is the course description and a map. You can also check out Mark Weir's XC 2005 ride over at Motionbased.
On this map, you can see last year's DH route in yellow and the XC route in red (click to enlarge):
Social: Here's the MTBR roll call of people attending. Some good tips and information.
I'll post more information to this as I get it.
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