Chelsea Bolton (Stay Park City Cycling) comes over the line first in the women's category of the Wasatch All-Road in Heber, 2022(Image credit: Wasatch All-Road )
Wasatch All-Road in Heber, 2022 - Chelsea Bolton (Stay Park City Cycling) first, Emma Grant (ABUS Pro Gravel) in second and Lindsey Stevenson third (Image credit: Wasatch All-Road )
Griffin Easter (OpiCure Foundation p/b OrangeSeal Gravel) wins Wasatch All-Road in Heber, 2022(Image credit: Wasatch All-Road )
First Griffin Easter (OpiCure Foundation p/b OrangeSeal Gravel), second Zach Calton (CaltonCoaching), third Kyle Trudeau (Czracing)(Image credit: Wasatch All-Road )
Wasatch All-Road in Heber, 2022(Image credit: Wasatch All-Road )
Chelsea Bolton won the pro women's division and Griffin Easter took the honors for the pro men at the 2022 Wasatch All-Road in Heber, Utah. Both Utah-based riders improved from third-place finishes at the inaugural gravel event last year.
"It was awesome and I am a super fan of the Wasatch Wall, so my goal was to go up that as hard as I could," Bolton said. "I was so focused on the wall that I wasn't aware of where I was in relation to anyone else. My goal was to just hit that wall hard. I did this race last year and I wanted to have a faster time up the wall than last year. I'm a slow descender, so, I figured that if I had any chance of getting in the top-3 I would have to hard up that wall."
The Full Yeti course returned for 100 miles with more than 11,000 feet of vertical gain across the Uinta range of the Wasatch Mountains. The opening section of the course brings the "Wasatch Wall", a climb of 5,000 feet of climbing across deep sand and washboards.
Bolton held off a trio of riders to secure her victory. From the chase group, Emma Grant, who finished ninth at Gravel Worlds in Nebraska, took second, 3:24 behind Bolton, but 31 seconds ahead of a charging duo of Lindsey Stevenson and Crystal Anthony. On the finishing circuit at the Soldier Hollow Nordic Center at Wasatch Mountain State Park, a venue used at the 2002 Olympic Winter Games, Stevenson sprinted to the final podium spot.
The men's race also saw a pack of riders survive a long day of climbing to the Soldier Hollow circuit. Easter outlasted Zach Calton for the victory by 40 seconds. Kyle Trudeau finished third, another 26 seconds later.
"At the end we all three came into the final 4-mile circuit around Soldier Hollow where I managed to get separation and hang on to the line. Not often you get to have a local race of this quality down the road with such quality racers in attendance," Easter said on Instagram.
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Results Full Yeti - pro women
Pos.
Rider Name (Country) Team
Result
1
Chelsea Bolton (Stay Park City Cycling)
6:50:02
2
Emma Grant (ABUS Pro Gravel)
0:03:24
3
Lindsey Stevenson
0:03:55
4
Crystal Anthony (Liv Racing Collective)
5
Caroline Tory
0:04:54
6
Sarah Jarvis (Multisport Mastery)
0:39:28
7
Jessie Young
0:52:48
8
Amelia Durst
1:48:28
9
Ashley Buxton
2:03:32
DNF
Libby Caldwell (Scott Bikes)
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Results Full Yeti - pro men
Pos.
Rider Name (Country) Team
Result
1
Griffin Easter (OpiCure Foundation p/b OrangeSeal Gravel)
5:51:10
2
Zach Calton (CaltonCoaching)
0:00:40
3
Kyle Trudeau (Czracing)
0:01:06
4
Truman Glasgow
0:07:10
5
Nathan Spratt (ABUS Pro Gravel Team)
0:08:56
6
Ryan Standish (Orange Seal/Kenda/Ventum)
0:20:42
7
Canyon Emmott (Elbowz Racing)
8
Stefano Barberi (Kenda/TheBlackBibs/Kask)
0:26:16
9
Marc Spratt (ABUS Pro Gravel Team)
0:26:37
10
John Borstelmann (ABUS Pro Gravel)
0:31:21
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Jackie has been involved in professional sports for more than 30 years in news reporting, sports marketing and public relations. She founded Peloton Sports in 1998, a sports marketing and public relations agency, which managed projects for Tour de Georgia, Larry H. Miller Tour of Utah and USA Cycling. She also founded Bike Alpharetta Inc, a Georgia non-profit to promote safe cycling. She is proud to have worked in professional baseball for six years - from selling advertising to pulling the tarp for several minor league teams. On the bike, she has climbed l'Alpe d'Huez three times (not fast), and spends time on gravel around horse farms in north Georgia.
