Killer Mountain Challenge 2011

The second edition of a really challenging Bike Contest

In 2010 the canadians Al and Nora, running the Casa Nora Posada including Bike Tours, organized the Killer Mountain Challenge for the very first time. Killer Mountain at this caribbean Island ? Indeed the name juts tells the truth. The Competitors of the Killer Mountain Challenge have to go uphill, on a very steep and technical track and only very few of them are able to make it all the way up, if they do, there is no time to celebrate, five more "Killer Mountains" are waiting to be climbed by Mountain Bike.

The anual Event in 2011 took place in the very early morning hours to avoid the sun and heat as much as possible, but all Bike Fanatics, coming from Venezuela, Switzerland, Latvia and Canada, made it on time to Casa Nora to get a nice group Bike Ride as warm up before the Challenge.

The two venezuelans Joel and Ronny were the first two trying their luck or better, showing their skills going up that steep dirt track and they both made it halfway up before they stepped foot on the ground which significates that the race would be over.

Canadian Dave was next and made it up almost to the marks, the two venezuelans had left where they finished.

The Killer Mountain Challenge Big names were now up to battle it out, would swiss Bike Pro and Tour Guide be able to get the title this year, or would the canadians Al or Jason hold up the trophy in his hands at the end of the Contest  ?

First up was swiss Bidu, but he had to stop his first attempt pretty early when he slipped on the very loose stones and crashed, he would have two more attempts to go. Al came up almost to Bidu´s mark and would need the next to attempts to possibly make it all the way up. Jason instead made climbing that nasty hill look pretty easy and with attempt one he made it already all the way Mountain one and went onto Mountain two....  where he got stopped and send back down hill one to give it another try.