John, great news about all the new trail.  While speaking of additional HAB, why didn't you guys go up Bigelow trail right behind the spigot, up to the top of the mountain?  Seems like that would be right in keeping with your mad style. 

Great news about the market reopen, and really cool about the pavement bypass up to Jake's.  Man, that's quite the re-route getting off all that pavement will be a great thing (next time I'm in the market for thumping by the 750).

Brian

I'm in for the 300!  One year off is too much lol!   

Damn, with all these updates, it looks like the state of NM is on fire or under fire closures. 

I can't believe I'm saying this, but I think I need to have another run at the 750.

Me too!

Wow, six people traversing the canyon, Dean Anderson fresh out on the north rim, and Alice D just a couple miles from finishing!  Quite an afternoon on the Kaibab.

So...6:6:6
I suck at math though...

That what I saw too. The ride from hell!!!

Six days, six hours-ish. Unreal.

Ron Thomson looks to be walking to Picketpost. I hope he’s able to deal with whatever the trouble is.

We’re obviously out of the race - but just topped out on the canyon crossing.

Never again!!

Whoa - that was good for a morning laugh.  Thanks for that!

Made it to the Grand Canyon and I’m out of time.
This is a great race and punishing route
My only regret is that I couldn’t go faster
Of course it was hard but it was also a lot and I mean a lot of great trail riding.
These were my first AZT miles but certainly not my last.
So that’s it. Tubessnapper (Jeremy noble) is out.
BTW the trail is kinda rocky

Impressive ride, Jeremy.  Bummer you can't go on, I was sort of interested in seeing how your GC crossing was going to go! 

Lee, looks like you got a ways up the hill and decided against it. 

Your last note said it all - I encourage you to re-read Mr. Schilling's 750 blog: if you're not all in you're not gonna finish.  Hell, for that matter, I need to re-read it as well.

Your last note pretty much looked like you had significant doubts. 

Next time!

After seeing what he's capable of last year, though, I suspect he'll be back in the saddle before long!

And there he goes!

Yeah, the pointy end of the race is downright spooky.  I'm with you on Kaitlyn's ride.

I'm real impressed with Curtis' ride, but fear he lost the Spot lottery this year - his updates have been rare from the get-go.

Got a text from Ron last night.  Sounds like the heat really caused him problems.  Looks like he's holed up at the Safeway in Tucson, trying to recover.  After seeing what he's capable of last year, though, I suspect he'll be back in the saddle before long!

Dang, was Denburg's crossing in the 12.5hr range?  That seems pretty flippin' fast from this end of the monitor.

Hey, nothing personal intended.  Sarcasm - it's in my nature.    At least you're on route this year, and I'm wishing I were again, instead of sitting in my house.

What he said.

as much as I appreciate the cynical tone of this - yes we are at Jacob lake for the night

Mad respect for everyone that does this ride. We definitely came underprepared and I’m not too proud to admit that. I’ve injured this knee a few times in the past and I would hate to get stuck down in the canyon because of it, so I’m gonna sleep on it.

I get that.  Yeah, I saw when you'd posted that but somehow hadn't made the connection that you were going to get re-sorted there at JL.

Best of luck - hope you're able to continue.

didnt Jill Hueckman do it in like 14-16 days too?

Hey now - what are you doing on here when you're supposed to be out there?

Sad to be missing it, but it is a helluva year to be stalking dots!

Thanks John and all for the piccies.

https://imgur.com/gallery/jsB2t

We’re all loaded up and ready to go at it tomorrow morning!

Scott - SPOT tracker is working good now, no worries there. Hope everyone is doing well!

Have a great one guys.  From the looks of it so far, you should be bumping into Kurt about five minutes after your start.

9 people still showing 0 feet after 2 hours including Wicks, Greg Hardy, and Curtiss Barrett.  Neil B showing no update at mile 1.9 of the 300.  Spot update issues or something more troubling?