Greatest Snow On Earth - Cyclocross Utah

A soft flaky snow greeted the series finale and championship between the King of Utah Cyclocross / Working Man Bart Gillespie & Ali Goulet 2009 USGP National Champion 35 +. It made for plenty of slipping, sliding, crashes, and fun for the final battle of the year for the series championship. The Utah cyclocross series is one of the greatest shows/cycling events around ( I know cos I'm from Cali & been all over the world), family fun events, and the perfect snow just make it more beautiful, fun and interesting. IE The Greatest Snow/Show on Earth.

It was also very nice that despite my screen going out half the time, the shots where I pointed the camera and hoped are mostly there. IE why there are some too distant or too close-up shots. I didn't even know if I was recording most of the time ; ( Of course there was some skipping here and there but it was nice that my digits and camera in the 15-20 degrees didn't suffer for nothing.

Apologies to Alex for not really giving him much chance to say much. I was in a panic with my screen going in and out dead for the first time just before the elite race was going to start and the guys were gracious enough to let me interview on the start line. Hopefully they will let me try that again at the last call race and they can reflect on the season, which is what I should have asked...

Utah's claim to "the greatest snow on earth" comes from the light flaky powder warmed by the Great Salt Lake that drops so beautifully in steady consistent abundance for a very long quality snow sports season.

Come race cyclocross and stay for the snow sports. The snow is behind this year so this race in the vally didn't have any base & was of the soft flaky kind which was nicer to film in but lets hope it dumps bigtime for the last call race Jan 2 and the Frozen Hog race Feb 6, so my jealousy of the "Best Snow on Earth" utcx vid might be a little less ; )

Ali did win the race but Bart would have had to come in Third for Ali to win the series, so for pretty much the 16 years of Utah Cyclocross, Bart has been the King, with a brief interruption by Church of The Big Ring's Art O'Conner!

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[madscrambler]

@stenquist34 FT Buenaventura in the Ogden area. Very nice park & course!

[vancomycin87]

not thaaaat kind of fast....hobby race?! amateur?