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America's Uphill
7:00 A.M., March 17, 2012, Aspen Mountain, Aspen, CO
America's Uphill 2012
Overall
By Category
By Team
By Gender
2011 Race Results:
Overall
By Category & Gender
By Team
To register online, click
here.
To Download a paper registration
form, click
here.
America's Uphill
7:00 A.M., March 17, 2012, Aspen Mountain, Aspen, CO
This race is a longtime Aspen favorite. Attracting hundreds of racers each year, the race brings together snowshoers,
runners, Nordic skiers, telemark skiers, and Randonee skiers for a
2.5 mile trek up Aspen Mountain.
Results
Results will be by overall place, by category gender age group (see
below for categories, age groups are 18 & under,
19-29, 30-39, 40-49, 50-59, 60-69, 70+), and by team (5 best times of
racers on a team will be added - lowest total
time wins).
To access previous years' results, click
here.
Awards/Raffle
The awards ceremony will begin at 9:30am inside the Sundeck
Restaurant. awards will be overall by gender, by team,
and by age group and gender in category. There is an extensive raffle.
Cost and Registration
$35 Pre-registration. Available till 4pm March 16 at the Ute
Mountaineer. Or online registration (credit card only) available
at www.utemountaineer.com till 11pm Mountain time March 15.
Please do not fax registrations.
For online
registration, click
here.
$45 Race Day Registration. Available from 6-6:30am at the gondola
building ticket office.
Cost includes pain, raffle, awards, and t-shirt. $1 of
each registration will be donated to Mountain Rescue Aspen.
T-shirts given out to the first 275 participants to pick up their
goody bags.
Race Packet & Bib Pickup
Race
Packet and bib pick-up will be at the Ute Mountaineer Tuesday (3/13/12)
9am through Friday (3/16/12) 4pm during
regular store hours (9am-9pm). You can also pick these up race morning
from 6-6:45am in the Gondola Building at the
base of Little Nell.
Timing Chip Pickup
Timing
chips are MANDATORY and must be picked up race morning from
6-6:45 am in the Gondola Building at the
base of Little Nell. You will not get a time if you do not pick up a chip!
Course Description
The America's Uphill begins at the base of Little Nell and climbs 3267
feet up the Aspen Mountain ski area finishing at
the Sundeck Restaurant at an elevation of 11,212 feet. The course
follows Little Nell to the Bell Mountain Chair and
then up Bingo Slot to Spar Gulch. The long steep climb up Spar
continues to the base of Ajax Express (Lift 3). From
here, there's a small reprieve on Tortilla Flats before the climb begins
again in earnest. At this point, the race follows
a maze of trails starting up Deer Park to Pussyfoot, Silverbell, and
Easy Chair, finally topping out at the Sundeck.
Inspection of the course prior to race day is recommended.
There is one aid station with fluids at he base of Lift 3.
Gear Options
Open category (stabilicers, running shoes, snowshoes, Yaxtrax, etc)
Track Skis (lightweight skating/diagonal gear)
Telemark (full metal edged skis with a 3-pin or cable binding)
Heavy Metal (alpine skis, randonee bindings, plastic boots)
Lodging
in Aspen
Tyrolean Lodge: Large rooms
starting at
$140/night. Call
1-(888) 220-3809
or
www.tyroleanlodge.com
For
more lodging
options click
here or visit
www.stayaspensnowmass.com.
If you participated in the Uphill and would like to fill out a survey,
click
here.
2010 Race Results:
Over-All
By Category & Gender
By Team
By
Gender
For 2009 race results, click
here .
For 2008 race
results, click
here.
For 2008 photos,
click
here.
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