12/8/11
4th Annual Iron Mountain 100k
Damascus, VA
Sunday July 15th, 2012
Register HERE!
Everyone had an awesome time rocking the trails down in the Mountain Rogers NRA for the Iron Mountain 100K. Trail conditions, the weather, the racers, and the support crews were awesome!
Maps
- Tent
Camping Area (no campfires) and Start
/Finish - 2
different places in the Town of Damascus, VA (.3 miles apart)
Registration
and Number pick up - 7:00 - 9:00 pm Saturday night and 7:00 - 7:30 am Sunday
(race day)
Post event feast at Damascus Town Park 2:00 pm til 6:00 pm
We'd like to thank the local shops helping with the 2011 event! Visit them to
get geared up and for more information on the fantastic riding in the Mount
Rogers area!
Adventure Damascus closes at 6:00 pm Saturday of the race weekend incase
you spaced some gear. All the goods in Trail-Town.
Mountain Sports,
Ltd. in Bristol, VA has everything you need for all of your adventures.
Piney
Flats Bicycles and Fitness, located in Piney Flats, TN can get you rolling
and has a great selection of fitness gear!
Damascus
Cycle Works, full service Bicycle shop in Damascus, VA
Highlands
Ski and Outdoor Center
in Abingdon, VA can set you up to get outside and enjoy everything that Southwest
Virginia has to offer.
Huge
Map of the Iron
Mountain 100K route - not very good detail
Maps below are better detail - broken down into smaller segments of the course
Start
to Aid Station #1 , #1
to #2, #2
to #3, #3
to #4, #4
to Finish
THE
full service aid stations are #2 at the bottom of Jerrys Creek Trail and #3
at Skulls Gap. They will have Water, HEED, Coke, PB&J's, Figs, and other
tasty treats, and you can drop a bag we will provide at either Station.
Aid Station #1 and #4 will have Water, HEED, Medical and Mechanical support.
We will provide Hammer Gel packets that you must use at the aid stations. For
the 2012 event we will be adding Coke to station 3 and 4, with station 4 getting
salts and sweets!
Damascus is called "Trail Town" because the Appalachian Trail and the Creeper Trail pass right through the historic downtown. Bicycle advocates are also creating a Great Eastern Trail Bicycle Route that passes through Damascus too. This route is under development and utilizes the Iron Mountain Trail and the Highlands Horse Trail in the Mt. Rogers National Recreation Area. The GET Bicycle Route links to the New River Trail and onto Blacksburg where it gets back on singletrack and joins the existing GET at the southern end of the Shenandoah Mountain Trail. Sorry about that tangent! Back on track to the amazing crew that has helped get the Iron Mountain 100K off the ground. The idea man David Witt along with Casey Bledsoe, Greg Norman, Bill Misty and Debbie Tilson, Dennett Dwyer, Brian Combs, Howard Roland (the radio crew) and the Town of Damascus have all pulled together behind the event to make it happen - THANKS!
A big thanks to Dean and Mark from Mountain Sports Ltd., Brian and TJ from Piney Flats Bicycles and Fitness, and Zach of Damascus Cycle Works for helping us run our course Aid Stations!
The Iron Mountain 100K is a Shenandoah Mountain Touring, LLC event - www.MountainTouring.com