Rider: Tyler McCaul Location: Utah, USA

Camera: Nikon D5 Lens: Nikkor 70-200mm f2.8 Settings: 145mm 1/4000sec at f5 ISO 160 “Rampage is a one of a kind event to shoot and the ultimate event for most MTB photographers. It also brings with it a boat-load of frustration during practice as riders start or stop riding on different ridgelines just as you arrive at the top of a sketchy scramble and of course the sun takes a dive behind the mountains. You just have to trust that if you keep trying you’re going to get lucky at some point over the week and you’ll shoot a lit-up rider with golden roost trails following them off a cliff like this shot of T-Mac. The 2016-17 Rampage site was definitely the gnarliest yet with riders’ only options down from the top being a monster drop on each ridgeline, or the Zink/Strait death chute down the middle. Bearclaw, T-Mac and Storch chose the riders left ridge and as you can see; about a thousand sandbags, as their escape route.”