>>1166939Yep. Keep your momentum as much as possible.
Gearing down might help too, if your sled's setup for go-fast. Get some more useable power on the bottom end.
Fucked up and tangled with a tree in an XC race last year, >pic related. Burned about half an hour getting out of there, still finished but it wasn't pretty. Not long after I got unstuck, there was an open section of road for a few miles before the track took a turn up a mountain through a dozen or so switchbacks.
Dude on a new M8000 caught up to me... obviously his first race, and hadn't been riding very long. Sled was geared for speed, blew by me doing at least 100m/h on the road (my sled maxes out around 78 the way it's geared now).
When we turned to go up the switchbacks, he couldn't hold traction without spinning the track because of that gearing. I gave him a bunch of ski tugs to get going up that hill... might as well since I certainly wasn't going to win anything after the tree incident.
Passed another dude who squeaked a piston out there too. "Bummer... I'll let the team at the next checkpoint know."
Fuck that tree.
