Most riders are either off the course or will be finishing the 2009 Tour Divide race soon. Despite the phantasmagorical weather this year, most records fell—an interesting portent for the evolution of self-supported Continental Divide racing. Alaskan Jill Homer broke the female record with a time of 24 days, 7 hours and 24 minutes. Jay and Tracey “T-Race” Petervary set a tandem (that’s right) record of 18:13:44. And 27-year-old engineer-turned-teacher swiss replica watches Chris Plesko blew the asterisks off the single speed record in the 2009 Tour Divide with a time of nineteen days and sixteen minutes. He spun his Vassago 29er through unprecedented bad weather.
The Sierra Club is offering the worlds best internship, according to sierraclub.org. From the clubs San Francisco headquarters, interns will travel the country to raft and hike with the clubs youth programs. Participants receive a $2,500 stipend for the eight-week internship, are outfitted with $2,000 worth of gear from The North Face and Planet Replica Chopard watches Explore, and will create a video blog to document the experience. The application deadline is March 31, 2010. Internships are only open for those aged 18-25.For a Sierra Club blast-from-the-past, check out This is Great!
In the January 2008 Outside feature story Dropped, writer Alan Prendergast investigates the death of Peter Absolon, the Rocky Mountain Director of NOLS. High in the Wind River Range of Wyoming, in a flash of catastrophic luck, Absolon lost replica Breitling Navitimer Montbrillant Limited Editio everything—without one wrong move. In this mountain tragedy, nature was not to blame, and all was not as it seemed. Tell us what you think in our comments section below:Should trundlers be prosecuted when a death or injury results from their actions?
