High schoolers clip in and throw down at the season-opening round of NICA's Utah league. It's a race, so expect a proper start line, categories, and the full nervous-excited energy that comes with kids taking mountain biking seriously.
Snowbasin's terrain does not coddle anyone — the resort's high-elevation slopes serve up real climbing and legit descents, the kind that separate the kids who've been training all fall from the ones who spent winter on the couch.