NEW 2024 Information Coming SOON
Monte Sano State Park
October 11-13, 2024
Strava-based races, shuttles, group rides, scavenger hunt, poker ride, GAMES, vendors, music, food, swag, and MORE!
Tentative Schedule
Friday, October 11th
3:00 PM: Registration Opens
5:00-6:30 PM: Intermediate skills clinic with Donovan Johnson of Southeast Shreds, LLC.
5:00 -6:30 PM: Group rides (beginner, intermediate options)
6:30 PM: Pizza social and movie at the bikers’ lot pavilion
Sat, October 12th
8:00 AM: Registration Opens
8:00-9:30 AM: hot breakfast with coffee and tea
8:30-10:00 AM: Beginner Skills Clinic with Donovan Johnson of Southeast Shreds, LLC.
8:30-9:00 AM: Stretching
9:30 AM: Scavenger Hunt Opens
10:00-2:00: Shuttles
9:30 AM-5:30 PM: All Festival Events:
Strava-based segment races
Vendors
RAFFLE TICKETS (extra cost)
10:00: Beginner and Intermediate Group rides
10:00 - 11:30 AM: Intermediate Skills Clinic with Donovan Johnson of Southeast Shreds, LLC.
11:00 AM: Little Hammies Race ($15 via Hammies website)
1:00: Beginner, Intermediate, and LADIES Group rides
2:30: Lunch is served!
3:00 PM: Beer Garden Opens
4:00: Beginner and Intermediate Group rides
6:00 PM: Dinner and Beer Garden with live music
Parking lot games
7:30 PM: Raffle winners drawn, all winners of races/games announced
Sun, October 13th
8:30 AM: Registration Opens
8:30-9:30 AM: hot breakfast with coffee and tea
9:00-9:30 AM: Stretching
9:30 AM: Poker Ride Opens
9:30 AM - 2PM: All Festival Events:
Vendors
Demo Bikes
10:00-1:00: Shuttles
10:00: Beginner and Intermediate Group rides
1:30 PM: Poker Ride and Trail Care Winners announced
Registration
Online registration is now closed, but register in-person and check-in at Ground Control (the bikers parking lot pavilion inside Monte Sano State Park) starting at 3:00 PM CST on Friday, October 6, or anytime during the festival!
Socks and Mugs:
your registration goodies!
$95 per person will give you access to the HAMR Fall Fest! SORBA members receive a 20% discount, which will be provided as a discount code from your SORBA chapter leadership!
Entry fee into Monte Sano State Park will also be required each day. There will be an attendant at the pay booth to collect your money. If you are a Huntsville area local and do not have an annual pass, we strongly recommend purchasing one.
What’s included?
Breakfast Saturday and Sunday, Dinner Friday and Saturday, Lunch on Saturday, registration goodie, all group rides, scavenger hunt, parking lot games, shuttles, poker ride, stretching class, Trail Care Contest (with sign-up in the app), 2 drink tickets for beer garden, Strava-based race entry.
What’s NOT included?
Daily entry fee to the park, Lunch on Sunday, Little Hammies registration cost, skills clinic registration cost, lodging/camping cost, raffle tickets, any additional merch from vendors.
Lodging Options
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Timberline Glamping
NEW to Monte Sano State Park, Timberline Glamping Company offers a combination of luxury and the great outdoors via extra spacious, completely furnished Safari Tents. Timberline is offering a discount to Fall Fest attendees! Enter “HAMRFall2023” at check-out to receive 50% off your 3rd night of glamping (2 nights at regular price).
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Monte Sano State Park
MSSP offers 23 Primitive (tent only) campsites, 69 Water & Electric sites, and 21 Full- Hook-Up sites. All primitive and improved campsites include a fire pit. Campground is equipped with two bath houses that house coin laundry facilities, and two dump stations. Campers have 24 hour access to facilities.
Also available are 11 stone cabins with a working fireplace and screened in porch. Cabins sit along a bluff line with a breathtaking view of the valleys surrounding Monte Sano Mountain.
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Area Hotels
Several hotel options exist in downtown Huntsville in the shadow of Monte Sano, offering easy walking access to dining, breweries, and entertainment!
Race Info
Strava-based races will run all day Saturday:
Hit these segments as you go about your scavenger hunt, group ride, shuttles, or solo them to get your best time! Strava rides will need to be set to “Public” so that they show up on the daily leaderboard.
Top 3 male and Top 3 Female racers on each segment will be awarded at the end of the day Saturday!
Downhill Segment
Uphill Segment
Climb Up our BRAND NEW Sinks Alternate Trail (name TBD)!!
Loop Segment
Ride Keiths and Logan CCW
The Little Hammies will be on-hand for a kids’ race (ages 12 and under) taking place at the Monte Sano State Park bikers’ lot pavilion starting at 11:00 on Saturday!
If your kiddo is ONLY participating in this race, not the rest of the festival, you don’t need to buy a full festival ticket for them, just see the Little Hammies page and register for their race. $5 of the $15 entry fee will be donated back to HAMR!
GAMES!
Saturday Scavenger Hunt
Clues guiding you to 5 different points of interest throughout Monte Sano State Park and Monte Sano Land Trust will be provided for anyone wishing to participate! The first person or first team of two to complete all five and return to the registration area at Monte Sano bikers’ lot pavilion will win a prize!
Each person/team will be provided a clue sheet with a space for a sticker. Sticker sheets are next to each point of interest - take ONE and stick it to your clue sheet as proof of completion!
Sunday Poker Ride
Process: At check-in, each participant will be given a score card, which will be filled in as participants progress along the route. At each designated stop there will be one deck of playing cards where a run official will draw a random card. The card drawn is recorded on each participant's score card by a run official then the card is returned to the deck. The score sheet can only be completed by an official of the run. There will be site specific stamps to ensure authenticity of the score sheet.
Winning Hand: The winner of the event is the participant who makes the best five-card poker hand at the end of the event determined by standard five card poker hand rankings. If there is a tie, the participants included in the tie will each draw a card from a complete deck and the participant with the highest card will win. The ranking order is spades, hearts, clubs then diamonds. There will be no “wild cards” allowed and each participant will only be allowed one “hand” recorded on an official score sheet.
Duplicate Card: If a player draws a duplicate card at two or more of the stops, the player will return the card to the official and draw again.
Poker Hand Rankings:
1. Royal Flush: Run of sequential cards from Ten to Ace, with all cards of the same suit.
2. Straight Flush: Run of sequential cards, all cards in the same unit, but not Ace high.
3. Four of a Kind: Four cards of the same rank; e.g. four Aces, Four Kings, etc.
4. Full House: Three cards of the same rank plus a pair, e.g. three Aces and a pair of Kings.
5. Flush: Five cards all of the same suit.
6. Straight (Run): Five sequential cards, not of the same suit.
7. Three of a Kind: Three cards of the same rank e.g. three Aces, three Kings etc.
8. Two Pair: Two sets of pairs e.g. a pair of Aces and a pair of Kings.
9. Pair: Two cards of the same rank e.g. two Aces, two Kings etc.
10. High Card: If you have none of the above, then the highest value card in your hand plays.
Parking Lot Games
Multiple games will be going on throughout Saturday evening! HandUp Gloves has given us multiple fun pairs of gloves as prizes for the winners of these games! Games include (not limited to):
-Bunnyhop and limbo competition
-Track Stand contest
-Mini/kids bike race for adults
TrailCare App Contest
Support the trails you ride by riding them! Sign up for the TrailCare app (which links to your Strava account), let us know you’d like to be entered for the contest at registration, then go ride your bike! You pledge a donation amount for every mile ridden on trails that are supported by a participating organization. Here in the Huntsville area, that’s HAMR! At the end of the day Sunday, we’ll have two awards to give out:
1, Most Miles Ridden on HAMR trails (as recorded in TrailCare App)
2, Most donations to HAMR (as recorded in TrailCare App)
Festival Happenings
RAFFLE!!!
Win a wheelset build from Trailhead, a mountain bike from REI, a new Kuat Transfer 2 bike rack from Bicycle Cove, or any number of other amazing prizes from our sponsors! More info coming soon. Raffle Tickets will be available at our registration booth through Saturday evening. $2 for one ticket, $10 for 6 tickets, or $20 for 15 tickets!
Beer Garden
Local brewery Innerspace will have beer on hand on Saturday!
Skills Clinics
PMBIA Level 1 Instructor and Huntsville area favorite Donovan Johnson of Southeast Shreds, LLC. will be available for clinics Friday evening and Saturday morning! Beginner clinics will cover basics such as level pedals, body/bike separation, cornering, and more. Intermediate clinics will cover wheel lifts, bunnyhops, manuals, and more!
Guided Rides
Multiple options for rides all weekend for riders of all skill levels, including a Ladies’ Ride on Saturday! Check out the schedule and routes here!
Shuttles!
Local bike shops, including Sunset Bicycles and Southern Carnage will have their big rigs out and about on Saturday and Sunday to get you to some of our favorite downhill trails without the hassle of all that climbing: Bankhead Trail, Oak Park Trail, and Bluffline Trail included!
Let’s support our trail partners who make this festival possible!
Please shoot us an email if you would like to support our first fall fest in a decade!
