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Doing well enough, took this home 
Turns out I do better when I don't crash. 
I was at a bit of a disadvantage, running a stock-stock sled in improved-stock class. The guys that took 1st and 2nd had a lot of work into their machines (one was mostly carbon-fiber with a fair amount of engine work done... *that* was a fast sled). Once I got my track-ratcheting issue fixed I did well.
Hillcross was brutal though, the director for the event is the race director for the winter x-games, so the hill-x track was huge and the sno-x track was super-technical. I didn't do so well in hillcross. I could have done a lot better, wasn't riding 100% between my track ratcheting in the snow conditions and a still-sore ankle. 
Winter storm moved in sunday, spit some wet snow in the morning, and made for a really crappy drive home. Left around 2100 after awards and got home around 0330.
It's been a good season though. End-of-season club ride next weekend, and probably get one or two more backcountry weekends in before I put the sled away for the summer and start wreckin hard on the bike.
@Ray.R wrote:
Congratulations! Top 3 is quite good!
Frosty didn't survive the warm spell since last week. There won't be any sledding in this region till Jan next year (Dec if we get another early winter).
It must be quite different in the hills. I recall doing a little bit of that many years ago (teenager). I learned that you do not simply step off a sled.... And it is very easy to get stuck. Getting unstuck is inversely proportional to how easy it was to get stuck... And mutiplied by 2 if you are near a tree.. and alone... 🙂
Thanks!
Season's winding down here, only ones left riding are the "hardcore" guys. Still some good snow if you know where to look.
Getting unstuck'd isn't too bad, there's tricks you learn that makes getting out easy. When I rode with the Wisconsin kids a few weeks ago we got to teach them a bunch of those tricks. 
By the 3rd day of riding they were able to get themselves out most of the time which was much appreciated, as my buddy and I had been digging them out for the past two days.
My best stuck was when I got sucked into a tree well...
Ski and bumper were held up on a block of ice, and that hole under the skid plate went down about 8 feet to water.
Seriously contemplated kicking it down there and tossing in a flare to collect insurance on it. 
About 3 hours of digging, shoveling snow into that hole, sawing trees off, cutting a ramp out, and help from another crew of riders we finally got it out of the hole.
Still had fun. 
