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It sometimes gets very steep. Spectators (and photographers) can get close to the action if they dare, as in European rallyes.

When a bike goes down, first order if business is to check if there are any other riders headed that way.

Mud-covered and happy, 16-year-old Alexi Phillips of Tryon, North Carolina took first place in her class aboard a KTM 150. Her friend, Davis Vasilatos, raced on a Yamaha 125.

The course wound far back into the woods -- a lap took as much as 30 minutes to complete. Sometimes there was a little congestion, as here. The races were not for a specified number of laps, but instead they determined how many laps a rider could complete in a specified amount of time, usually two or three hours.

Here's something you don't see every day. Though stressing bikes to the max happened there a lot.

The Sunday Creek Raceway was transformed into a small city during the weekend, and roads and paths there were filled with a mixture of people on foot, on bicycles, in cars, on ATVs, and even on tractors. Oh, and motorcycles, too.

Bicyclists were wise to check carefully before riding across the racetrack.

It's named for Ohioan John Penton, the virtual inventor of the modern lightweight dirt bike.

Straw was brought in to make some of the mud a little less slippery, so there are probably by now adobe paths at Sunday Creek Motocross Track.

Athens Sheriff deputies weren't covered in mud -- yet.

Katelyn explains that while she was leading the race someone motioned her to a route that ended up being wrong, shortening the track and incurring for her a penalty she couldn't overcome, so she retired from the race, not a happy rider. UPDATE (via email from Katelyn): "I did end up winning that race. A track worker pointed me a line with many other riders and they ended up adjusting the time because of their error."

. . . and turned out to be Katelyn Osburn of Greene, N.Y., who wants to be champion in the women's professional class.

This rider retired early . . .

Pit Row

The expressions of the riders are always interesting.

Four-wheeler racing isn't for the faint of heart.

The yellow tape probably isn't strong enough to prevent rider and machine from plunging into the ravine, so it's good that it's very bright.