November 8, 2026 - QuebradaS Desert KRAKEN
Cost: Free for now. The price doubles on October 32nd, so hurry up and register.
Staging area: Click HERE for a Google map of the start/finish area.
Start time: 10:00am
Participant limit: 100, the early bird gets the worm
Rules: Sign in before the race and sign out when you finish. Make sure to sign out! If you don't sign out, you will be subject to the ultimate punishment. We don't know what that is yet and we don't want to find out, so just sign out. When you sign in we'll give you the run down of using the Time Machine to get your finish time to log on the sign out sheet. Roads will be open to traffic and trails will have other users on them. Any vehicle on the course is not expecting to encounter a bike race on these roads so please stay to the right hand side of the road. Don't ride like an idiot. Be nice to other people. Ride within your abilities. You are responsible for your own safety, navigating the course, and addressing any mechanicals that may arise. You will need a gps device and the gps file. Last and most important have fun.
Details: This is a fun course, deep in the badlands between the Socorro bosque and the trinity site. Three course options, a short, a long, and an XL. The XL is the course you want to do, if you think you can handle it.
Course Description:
All courses head east and south on Bosquecito Rd before turning east onto Quebradas Back Country Byway. At 5 miles from the start, the short course turns back the same way we rode out. It's at the top of a rise with a nice view and a small pullout. The short course returns to the start and heads south on a ditch road to Otero park where you then jump on the Socorro Valley Bosque Trail. This is a mix of singletrack and double track, a fun ride through the bosque. This trail is a little hard to follow, hopefully the gps track helps, but do your best to just follow the singletrack back to confluence park where we jump back on a ditch road back to the finish. The singletrack gets a little soft in spots, maybe bring your bigger tires
The XL and long course continue on Quebradas through the badlands to mile 12.4.
At mile 12.4 the XL course goes left and has a bunch of really cool views to soak in. This is my favorite part of the Quebradas loops. Take it easy and keep enough oxygen in that brain bucket of yours so you can assess risk adequately. We'd rather eat tacos at the finish than entering Chip 'N Dale Rescue Rangers mode to search for someone that got a little too rad.
At mile 12.4 the long course turns west and heads back down towards the bosque on a lightly traveled dirt/sand road. The majority of this course you can rip, but there's a couple descents between mile 12 and 18 where you'll need to turn the risk management part of your brain back on. It's a fun drop back down to Bosquecito Rd where we head south to 380. Turn right on 380 and as you get close to the bridge that goes over the mighty Rio Grande, turn north on the most eastern low ditch road. Realistically, if you happen to pick the wrong ditch road at any point it won't matter, just keep going because all the intersections we use are where all the ditch roads come back together. We stay on the ditch roads until we reach Otero park where the course picks up the Socorro Valley Bosque Trail. See above paragraph for details on that. The finish for the short and long is the same.
I think the best bike for the courses is a gravel bike with the fattest rubber it can fit. Mostly fast dirt roads with some soft sections to bog you down.
If you have any questions drop us an email at [email protected].
See you dudes and dudettes there.
Staging area: Click HERE for a Google map of the start/finish area.
Start time: 10:00am
Participant limit: 100, the early bird gets the worm
Rules: Sign in before the race and sign out when you finish. Make sure to sign out! If you don't sign out, you will be subject to the ultimate punishment. We don't know what that is yet and we don't want to find out, so just sign out. When you sign in we'll give you the run down of using the Time Machine to get your finish time to log on the sign out sheet. Roads will be open to traffic and trails will have other users on them. Any vehicle on the course is not expecting to encounter a bike race on these roads so please stay to the right hand side of the road. Don't ride like an idiot. Be nice to other people. Ride within your abilities. You are responsible for your own safety, navigating the course, and addressing any mechanicals that may arise. You will need a gps device and the gps file. Last and most important have fun.
Details: This is a fun course, deep in the badlands between the Socorro bosque and the trinity site. Three course options, a short, a long, and an XL. The XL is the course you want to do, if you think you can handle it.
Course Description:
All courses head east and south on Bosquecito Rd before turning east onto Quebradas Back Country Byway. At 5 miles from the start, the short course turns back the same way we rode out. It's at the top of a rise with a nice view and a small pullout. The short course returns to the start and heads south on a ditch road to Otero park where you then jump on the Socorro Valley Bosque Trail. This is a mix of singletrack and double track, a fun ride through the bosque. This trail is a little hard to follow, hopefully the gps track helps, but do your best to just follow the singletrack back to confluence park where we jump back on a ditch road back to the finish. The singletrack gets a little soft in spots, maybe bring your bigger tires
The XL and long course continue on Quebradas through the badlands to mile 12.4.
At mile 12.4 the XL course goes left and has a bunch of really cool views to soak in. This is my favorite part of the Quebradas loops. Take it easy and keep enough oxygen in that brain bucket of yours so you can assess risk adequately. We'd rather eat tacos at the finish than entering Chip 'N Dale Rescue Rangers mode to search for someone that got a little too rad.
At mile 12.4 the long course turns west and heads back down towards the bosque on a lightly traveled dirt/sand road. The majority of this course you can rip, but there's a couple descents between mile 12 and 18 where you'll need to turn the risk management part of your brain back on. It's a fun drop back down to Bosquecito Rd where we head south to 380. Turn right on 380 and as you get close to the bridge that goes over the mighty Rio Grande, turn north on the most eastern low ditch road. Realistically, if you happen to pick the wrong ditch road at any point it won't matter, just keep going because all the intersections we use are where all the ditch roads come back together. We stay on the ditch roads until we reach Otero park where the course picks up the Socorro Valley Bosque Trail. See above paragraph for details on that. The finish for the short and long is the same.
I think the best bike for the courses is a gravel bike with the fattest rubber it can fit. Mostly fast dirt roads with some soft sections to bog you down.
If you have any questions drop us an email at [email protected].
See you dudes and dudettes there.
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