Saturday, March 22, 2008 -- Mc Henry, MD
Ski Center 3 Jump Jackpot Dual Slalom
With the help of generous sponsors: Washington DC's Ski Center, Deep Creek Lake's Silver Tree Restaurant, Railey Mtn. Lake Vacations, and the residential and commercial services of Railey Realty; a cash purse of $1000.00 would be divided up among the top five finishers.
The highlight of the dual slalom race course, set up on
Wisp Resort's
black diamond Squirrel Cage slope, were three "jumps". These jumps
were really more like three drop offs ranging in size form two to four
feet. Add these into the mix with the big cash prizes and you see why
the event was titled "Three Jump Jackpot".
To keep it a little more interesting a rule was put in place that you
could never lose more than two seconds to your competitor on any
single run. This way if you crashed or were disqualified for going
off course on your first run you could technically make it back up on
your second.
With such a large advantage going into the second run for Poore,
Schall elected to rest his bruises and settle for second place with a
pedestrian second run. Poore had no trouble executing a clean second
run ahead of Schall to cash in for first place.
Rounding out the top ten was essentially a five-way tie for sixth place. This included the lone female competitor and the youngest, too, in twelve year-old Elizabeth Green. The others were Tim Williamson, Jim Gibson, Steve Green, and Josh Spiker.
A final shout-out goes to the fans that cheered on the racers while being kept up with the action by guest deejay Mike Hartlove of Racer's Edge fame. He encourages everyone to come out this summer to race or watch the excitement as the Mid-Atlantic Cup mountain bike downhill and dual slalom series returns to Wisp.