Racers Blaze Boulder Course
Unusually strong tailwinds helped push 770 SWIX Boulder Mountain Tour finishers down the 32-kilometer course from Galena Lodge to the Sawtooth National Recreation Area headquarters Saturday morning. Poling away here at Baker Creek about halfway through the 19.8-mile course are, from left, eventual men's winner Sylvan Ellefson, 23, of Vail, Colo., eighth-place finisher Mark Iverson, 28, of Anchorage, Alaska, and sixth-place finalist Taylor Fletcher, 20, of Steamboat Springs, Colo. Twelve men broke the 1.10:00 mark, with Ellefson's 1.06:43 time leading the way. Photo by Willy Cook
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