FEATURE I TAKING ON THE SNOWSHOE GNCC
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How I Got Here
Most adventures like this start with a phone call, and this one was
no exception. On the other end of the phone was Barry Hawk, the
team manager of the Coastal Racing Factory GasGas program,
and he asked me if I'd be interested in racing a GNCC on one of
their race bikes. I think you know what my answer was.
He said better sooner than later, and the Snowshoe round just
happened to fit both of our schedules perfectly. The Snowshoe
GNCC, as you might already know, is one of the most picturesque
and wildest on the schedule each year. It's based at a ski resort
tucked up in the mountains of West Virginia. I really had no busi-
ness racing a GNCC, and I knew it would be way out of my com-
Howard's Hole is where
the new generation of
Mud Fleas has gone.
The Snowshoe GNCC is
the closest thing to the
infamous Blackwater
100 (R.I.P.), which
spawned the GNCC
Championship.
