12th Annual Icy River Rampage Winter Fat Bike Race

Race date: 2/4/2023

This is your once chance to ride trails otherwise closed to biking and help support the Nature Center! 

This year, the Icy River Rampage is park of the Trek Winter Fat Bike Series, a fundraiser for two awesome non-profits: Chugach Mountain Bike Riders and the Eagle River Nature Center. Battle for points and glory by signing up for the longer points races, or keep it mellow by signing up for the shorter races. Mix and match, but just come and ride while supporting two great community-minded non-profits. Fabulous prizes await everyone who participates in all three races....

REGISTER FOR OUR RACE OR ALL 3 RACES below:

REGISTER HERE

Race Details:

• Race date:  2/4/2023. Start time: 11am
• Bib pick-up:  9am-10:45am at the Eagle River Nature Center race morning!  We are super stoked to have Fall Line Fitness timing out event.  Timing chips/race numbers will be handed out race morning and will be placed on your seat post.
  
• Race start:  20 milers, 11am; 10 milers, 11:15am.  This last weather warm-up limited our course, so 20 milers will be doing 2 laps.   Race start/finish is at the back of the main Nature Center building (yeah, sorry we make yah climb that hill to the finish).
• Awards after the race, fire, and some food.
• Helmets are required to race, fat tires required to race (*see below for Chugach State Park Regs definition of fat tires) 
• Course is 90% hard-packed and fast.  At the moment, there's just a couple spots of ice and one small overflow section.  Studs would be good to have, but not required.  There's also sections of trail with moose "craters" (darn moose like our trail, too).  We'll try to warn you of these areas on the course with some signage.
• View the course map here!  Lap is about 11 miles :-)  Added a little extra 'cause things were looking easy this year.  
• Parking is LIMITED!  Please car pool if you can.  We will hopefully have access to our new parking area, so if you have 4-wheel drive/snow tires, drive that vehicle to the race so we can park some of you down in the new lot:-)
• Please note:  Transferring your registration to someone else is NOT PERMITTED.  We had someone give their registration to a friend without notifying us at last year's race.  This is NOT COOL for many reasons...but mostly because we didn't have any current info for that racer (emergency contact, etc.).  If you can no longer race, please contact Laura at [email protected] and we'll figure something out. Thanks so much for understanding.  

HUGE Props to our RAD race sponsors, the Trek Bicycle Store of Anchorage!

*FAT TIRES are also REQUIRED to race per our special-use permit with Chugach State Park.  Fat Tires are defined by Chugach State Park as: "Fat Tire Bikes are defined as: a two wheeled, non-motorized, self-propelled bicycle (A) created for cycling on soft, unstable terrain; (B) having a tire width of 3.7” or greater; and (C) having a tire pressure of less than 20 pounds.