Mountain Hardwear Ski Mountaineering Race

The Randonnee Rally Race Series is a series of ski mountaineering races held at some of the premier resorts in North America.  The Race Series tests the competitor's endurance, equipment and skiing skills while skinning up and and skiing down some fo the toughest terrain that these resorts and their surrounding mountains have to offer.

The short description of this event is that it's a backcountry race that starts at Mad River Glen and ends at the Lincoln Peak Base area at Sugarbush.  The details are more like this...

Competitors begin at the Mad River Glen base and ski up the Antelope Slope.  Once to the summit, they traverse the Long Trail to Mount Ellen, where they descend to the Slide Brook Basin via Rim Run, Lower Rim Run, and Lower F.I.S. 

After ascending through the Slide Brook area on work roads, competitors take one of two routes - the recreational divison ascending Village Run to the base of the North Lynx Chair while the race division ascends up work roads to the summit of North Lynx Chair and then down to the base of that chair via Birch Run.  The rest of the run is all downhill from this point, The rest of the course is all downhill from this point, with racers in both divisions continuing on Castlerock Connection, through Header, and down to the finish at the Valley House by way of the Lower Jester and Coffee Run trails.
Sound fun?

Registration information can be found online at the USSMA website.  This event is open to skiers, telemarkers, and split-board snowboarders, and will feature some of the fastest ski mountaineering racers in the U.S.

Click here for a map of the course