Area residents will get the chance to watch the races in Alpine on January 16.
In Star Valley, winter sports – the faster the better – mean adrenaline-pumping, heart-pounding fun for anyone riding a machine with a throttle, skis and a track. Riders can be seen or heard in a blur through fields or catching air in the backcountry.
But come January 16, at Alpine, there will be a unique “first” for what many locals traditionally call “sleds.” Note to visitors: calling them snowmobiles is a dead giveaway you’re renting for groomed trails at Old Faithful.
At about 11 a.m. on that Saturday morning just south of the river adjacent the Melvin Brewing Alpine Brewery on a course described as a “3/4 long, 30-foot wide snow MX course with jumps, bumps and right and left turns,” you’ll see not sleds but motocross dirt bikes flying sideways and spitting the white stuff. These machines will have a single ski on front and a track on back where typically you see wheels. But they