Curtis Shines At Silver Kings
Hard Enduro
K
eith Curtis showed his domi-
nance in the mountains at the
Silver Kings Hard Enduro, which
debuted this past weekend at the
Silver Mountain Ski Resort in Kel-
logg, Idaho, June 18-19. This was
the sixth round of the AMA IRC
U.S. Hard Enduro Series, present-
ed by Inside Enduro, and the final
round of the AMA West Region
Extreme Off-Road Championship.
The hard enduro world might have
been focused on the return of the
Red Bull Erzbergrodeo, but nearly
400 racers crawled their way
through this steep mountain terrain
at one of the biggest hard enduro
races in North America.
James Stearns and the In-
side Enduro crew took on this
extreme event that has been
running at Silver Mountain since
2016, putting in hundreds of man
hours cutting new trails and con-
structing an endurocross-style
course on top of the mountain.
This race consisted of Bronze,
Silver and Gold courses, all
of which had varying levels of
difficulty. Rain throughout the
weekend made the Silver Kings
course even more slick and the
melting snow on the mountain
resulted high levels of runoff in
the creek sections.
The field shifted this weekend
since several top-10 USHE con-
tenders were at Erzberg, includ-
ing current points leader and
AMA West Regional Champion
Trystan Hart, Ryder LeBlond,
Branden Petrie and Quinn Wen-
tzel. FactoryONE Sherco's Keith
Curtis, a seven-time Snowmobile
Hillclimb World Champion, and
Rockstar Husqvarna's Colton
Haaker stayed to fight for the
$20,000 purse.
IN
THE
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Sherco rider Keith Curtis
took top honors at the
Silver Kings Hard Enduro in
Idaho.
PHOTOS: MATT MUSGROVE
