This past weekend was the series finale for the Carter’s Lake Mini-DH series down in Ellijay, Ga. But before the race on Sunday, Mark Ziska and I traveled over to Wolf Ridge Ski Resort on Saturday. We went to help Ryan Taylor finish up the race course for the up coming race this Saturday. It has been awhile since Wolf held a race and this will be very unique course for this area. The top half of the course will be super wide open and drifty. The bottom half is a mix of tight woods and open ski slope. The two halves are divided by a massive step down. It will be interesting to see how I will fair on such a mix of courses.

On to Carter’s Lake. I finished third in the first race and first in the second. I was sitting on top of the points, but just barley over Jake from Atlanta who was only 50 points behind me. I needed to finish ahead of him to keep the series lead, but of course I wanted to win.

The heat lately has been almost unbearable. Saturday (trail-building) and Sunday were no different. I tried to not do too many runs, but of course I like riding too much and I probably did a few too many. By race time I was sapped. But it seemed like everyone else was as well. I posted a 1:36 on my first run. Jeremy R was 3 seconds back. On a course this short, I felt pretty good about my lead, so I relaxed a little bit for the second run and coasted some of the course after I blew a couple turns early. I still would have had a winning time with my second run, so I left good to have a clean victory and series win.

Here are a few pictures taken by the onearmedbandit again…