2018 CMA MRSI Harescramble Photo Gallery

By DBNCrew On Jul 18, 2018

PHOTO: Keith Scott

The Ghost Riders Club in Alberta Canada Held their 1st of 3 offroad events for the year. This was Round 3 of the CMA offroad series in Fallen Timber Alberta. Set in the rocky mountains with amazing singletrack and virgin terrain it was made even more challenging after it rained for 5 hours straight the Friday prior to the race.

However, the rain was needed as the trails were drying up with dust building.

Over 170 Racers attended the event with GRC is known for having their amazing singletrack trails from historical Trail systems reclaimed from the forests and wind-blown Areas.
GRC, or Ghost Riders has a neat acronym which is, Ghost Historical Offroad Single Track, trails from the 70s, 80s, and 90s are refound following old lines and long-lost pink ribbons which are not quite and barely there.

Check out some of the pit pix and phots from the trail from submitted photos to us!
Next race for GRC is the MRSI Challenge July. 28/29 which a 50KM cross Country in Fallen Timber for the AMSA offroad Series.

The last Offroad race in the Mountains in AMSA is the GRCS infamous MAZE RUNNER XC (formerly YaHa Tinda XC), which new this year has a HARD ENDURO Section for the A class riders, and an AA Platinum Section for top tier riders, PRO, EXPERT, VET MASTER, wanting to show whos the best offroad rider in Western Canada.

peewee racing alberta offroad GRC ghost riders club — Massive PeeWee classes and great battles all day for these kids!

youth get involved in anyway possible waving flags.

The Whos who of Pros in Alberta. Can you name them all?

He says, “how long do I have to wave this?”

2018 mrsi harescramble cma - fallen timber - PHOTO_ DBN News54 — Course designer asks where our checkered flag was, “hold one one sec” we said.

2018 mrsi harescramble cma - fallen timber - PHOTO_ DBN News53 — Peewee Novices raced their very awesome track as backup girls take the numbers down

peewee mrsi harescramble offroad racing — Parents make sure their kids are ready for the event.

super vet racing mrsi harescramble 2018 — Super vet class was stacked with some old Champions coming out of the woodwork.

Mario baumann harescramble 2018 offroad racing — 40A Class had a surprise german racer come to the event Mario Baumann

40B racing offroad harescramble MRSI fallen timber — 40 BEER class all it was meant to be, these guys had

Saturday Awards had over 110 racers on the new Harescramble course.

david chambers harescramble — David Chambers and friends raced in the Legends class, These old boys still got it.

The swag table was HUGE from Blackfoot Motorsports, Cycle Works Foothills, Cycle Works Calgary, Bowridge Sports

Ride hard designs dirt bike plaque award — Plaques designed by Ride Hard Designs Were outstanding!

The Finish Line start sequence was quite busy

2018 mrsi harescramble cma - fallen timber - PHOTO_ DBN News63 — Massive youth classes!

Sportsman Line up for their go at the course

The log jump was a favorite for many just before the Finish Line.

MRSI Harescramble had a great turnout of 170 Riders.

All peewees were checked before heading to the course.

rfid dirt bike scoring enduropromotions — Racers looked at their position & scores after the event. On site wireless scoring was available with EnduroPromotions

Friends Luke Sydor, Trystan hart, Stephen foord talk after the race.

Jason paradis took a gnarly spill and was carted off the track, he is healing with a broken leg.

Nick karas was on point all day sweeping and helping with the event.

trystan hart — Trystan Hart was king out on the course with event organizer monty Brown of Ghost Riders Club

tyler Wendlandt 2018 mrsi harescramble cma — Tyler Wendlandt races past the check to carry on for another lap.

joe Bartziokas chats with Course Master Monty Brown about injured riders and course details

super vet 50 plus harescramble alberta Blair Kultgen — Blair Kultgen On his Yamaha 4-stroke was a force to be reckoned with out on the trail

Matt coonfer had to sit the remainder of the race with a shoulder that was not feeling right.

Pit crew and racers watched the laps and times as the race continued. The antenna above sends signals 700 Feet for Wireless scoreboards on Phones.

Drew Ellis was taking a moment after finishing lap 2 of the slippery course.

You had to be there, but the rider was in 2nd Place in Novice, with 8Min 26 seconds behind, he was not happy.

Riders loved the sweeping right hand out of the tent.

Kevin Dupuis was in charge to try and close the gap on Trystan Hart who led laps 2,3 and 4.

Luke Sydors Wife did a very impressive gas check and had all the right information for Lukes push

Stephen foord chills as he discusses his tactic on how to survive the root invested course.

Dylan Cartwright was lined up with a very challenging feild in 50+ Supervet

Pete Issler a veteran to racing makes it out to a few races a year.

last ditch effort to get some energy before the main event.

Luke Sydors bike is not clean, he must have been site lapping…

Look at these kids style on the log! PHOTO_ keith scott photography

Youth were battling all day, future pros in the making PHOTO_ keith scott photography

youth peewee offroad racing alberta hunter valley — Amazing weather sunday for the youth & peewee racing PHOTO_ keith scott photography

mom was the best umbrella girl around. PHOTO_ keith scott photography

There was a SLIGHT mixup on plaques for the youth, but these were pretty awesome too.