508 Photos from the GoPro
Some Furnace Creek 508 photos between the start and Trona timestation.
California City Rider Exchange
Santa Clarita to Trona Video
2 and 1/2 minute stop action video of team Pika 4X from Santa Clarita to Trona. Pika 4X 2012 Furnace Creek 508 from Cathy Cramer on Vimeo.
No slackers – 508 4X
Riding Furnace Creek 508 as a 4-woman team was a great experience! In retrospect, asking three friends who didn’t know one another to fly to California and spend 96 hours together, including 40 hours with little-to-no sleep, while traveling across the desert in a van crammed full of gear and alternating supporting one another with …
Riding is the easy part
I suppose I should write something about Furnace Creek 508, but really all I feel like doing is taking a nap. Prepping my own gear and supplies for the team has been almost a full time job in the last week. That along with squeezing in as many work hours as possible, a few easy …
Antlers 200k
If I didn’t hate rain so much this ride would probably have jumped right to “my favorite rides” list. I chose a warm (60′s-70′s F), muggy, November, Sunday, to ride “Search for BigFoot” 200k Permanent. Three to four hours were spent on wet roads, accompanied by threatening skies the entire route, which dampened my mood …
2010 Furnace Creek 508 Photos
What keeps you going? 2010 Furnace Creek 508
Sunday afternoon, creeping towards Baker into a headwind, my exposed skin feeling like it had been placed under a broiler, and stopping every few minutes to soak my jersey to keep my body temperature down, I was convinced that I’d not be able to finish Furnace Creek 508 within the 48 hour time limit. Heat, …
Countdown to Furnace Creek 508
Note: I just learned from a friend that the CAF site does not allow donations less than $10. I’ve contacted them to see if this can be changed, but I’m guessing it may be a limitation of their payment processor. In the meantime if you want to make a donation of $4.67, PayPal it to …
Getting ready for Furnace Creek 508: Choosing a totem
As a rider or team participating in Furnace Creek 508, one of your first tasks; required to complete your application, is choosing a totem. At The 508 animal names, “totems“, are used instead of bib numbers to identify riders and teams. Once a rider officially finishes, the totem is theirs and the same totem will …