Near Evans’ current location, Hopkins had veered off course onto an undercut precipice.
With him overdue, friends from the Lower Mainland volunteered to wait at the train tracks on Robert Service Way.īicycle sweep Joyce Kashman caught up to Evans near Miles Canyon and, together, they negotiated a skinny footpath.Īt the same time, Hopkins arrived at the Whitehorse Ski Club wax room with a frightening story. Unaccounted for was Lang Evans, a BC 100-mile cyclist with an hour’s head start on Hopkins. By noon, the racers closed in on the first checkpoint, and each other. Seven 50-milers got underway at 9 a.m., and Ed Hopkins mounted his bike at 10 a.m. with two 100-mile runners.Ī New Yorker had withdrawn at the last minute, so Mary Beck, hoping to repeat her Arctic Ultra win, and returning running mate Frank Janssens left Rotary Park with little fanfare. It includes parts of the Magnusson trail, Mad to the Max and Fat Tire Fever circuit. The Gold connects a cloverleaf of multi-use trails where short- and long-distance competitors often converge. If Shelley Gellatly wanted her Yukon Gold Ultra associated with Robert Pollhammer’s Yukon Arctic Ultra, it would have to be tough, he told her in February.Įarly Saturday morning Gellatly launched a “small but committed group” in the Gold’s debut, which was “sometimes rocky, sometimes sandy, sometimes stumpy and almost always hilly,” she said.
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