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Maybe it wasn't Kato then. Maybe it was Sofiane I was thinking of. Who's wheels were in the photograph caked in mud? Point was, there were other riders who'd gone up and were talking about the conditions. It's not like Lael was getting special information from her crew that the others weren't getting.
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Josh Kato didnt turn round. He spent the night on the pass above BML in the snow. He tried to shelter in a cave and there was a Mountain Lion in it. He said it took him 3 times as long as previous years to get over the pass, and retired with a chest infection soon after.
Sofiane got lost in the deep snow. Both his Garmins failed and he wandered round in a circle in the deep snow and came across his own footprints and then decided to retreat back to BML. A wise decision as the path zig zags up the hill and isnt obvious.