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Formation Trailblazers: Micayla Gatto (right) takes a break to compare notes with Vaea Verbeeck The sun had just begun to rise near Virgin, Utah, when American rider Hannah Bergemann began to climb. Shouldering her 16kg downhill bike, Bergemann walked steadily up a narrow desert ridgeline. When she reached the top, she looked down the line that she and her dig crew had patiently carved out of the red desert sand, peeling back layers of prehistoric stone. If Bergemann felt any nerves, she didn’t show them. She began to ride. With precision, Bergemann followed the narrow track unwinding along the canyon wall as the landscape blurred beneath her wheels. She hit her first jump, flying over the gap. The ground dropped into wide-open air beneath her. Then came a series of ledges, a staircase made for giants, formed out of rock layers, none of them laid straight. A steep chute sent her hurtling downwards until, at last, Bergemann arrived at a final jump. She soared over the gap cleanly, her bike’s suspension compressing under the force of the landing. Bergemann had come to Virgin for <strong>Red</strong> Bull Formation, a freeride camp for women. The groundbreaking October 2019 event brought together six of the world’s best freeride mountain bikers and gave them the opportunity to ride in the storied Utah terrain, made famous by the almost exclusively male bike event <strong>Red</strong> Bull Rampage, a notoriously testing invitation-only contest that’s now one of the biggest on the global calendar. After five days in the desert, no longer could anyone say that women lacked the skills to ride Utah’s intense and unforgiving terrain. These riders had transformed the landscape of women’s KATIE LOZANCICH, PARIS GORE 58 THE RED BULLETIN
After three dig days, the women had created three very different lines In the swing: Vero Sandler digs her line in the desert sun of Virgin, Utah
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