Dan, thank for your review and for joining us.
We take the health and safety of our riders very seriously.
All riders manuals, courses and routes had significant notification of how challenging it is out there. Your course map had caution and danger notifications and we covered all the last minute concerns at our riders meeting.
While many things fall under our control. Riders ability, riders attention and riders assessment of their ability don’t.
As the race director and course designer I’ve spoken personally to each rider that we are aware of that had a serious fall. The comments are pretty consistent from everyone “I was going to fast and have no one to blame but myself”
No doubt it was tough and challenging out there.
We promote this challenge and embrace it and ask our attending to do the same, with respect.

Sincerely,

Morgan Murri
Founder
Desert Gravel