The Red Bull X-Alps 2007 started at Dachstein on 23 July and ended in Monaco on 8 August; an athlete finishes by touching the float, not by entering the last cylinder. Thirty teams started and five reached Monaco. There was no mandatory rest: night hiking was legal and the tracks show it. Flying at night was bound only by VFR and the organiser’s forbidden zones.
Red Bull X-Alps 2007
- Where
- Dachstein to Monaco, Alps
- When
- 23 July to 8 August 2007
- Format
- one route over 17 days
- Route
- 838 km · 5 turnpoints
- Athletes
- 23 tracked
- In goal
- 5 of 23
- Results
- as published (Red Bull X-Alps live ranking)
Podium
- 1Alex Hofer14d 01h 00min goal
- 2Toma Coconea14d 05h 35min goal
- 3Martin Müller15d 01h 15min goal
Every result, with where each athlete stood at the end of each day.
Highlights
- Best day 204 kmToma CoconeaDay 8 · 30 Jul
- Strongest climber 553 m/hAndy Frötscher42 h 50 climbing
- Most on foot 903 kmToma Coconea24,114 m climbed in 166 h 18 hiking
- Most flown 716 kmAlex Hofer63 flights, 30 h 56 in the air
The leaders of a few stats boards: measured from the tracks, not taken from the official results.
The route
838 km and 5 turnpoints as the organiser presents it. The progress and the stats are measured along the optimised line through every cylinder of the route file (793 km).
- SDachstein1.5 km cylinder
- 1Marmolada3 km cylinder
- 2Eiger16 km cylinder
- 3Mont Blanc20 km cylinder
- 4Mont Gros1 km cylinder
- goalMonaco
How this race is read
Rules
- No lifts of any kind. What the tracks show as one (a wing soaring close to a slope, GPS altitude settling after the tracker starts) is read as the flight or the hike around it.
- The race starts at the route's start gate: the trackers run for a while before it at the start line, and that part is cut.
- It ends for each athlete at their finish or elimination, as the results give it; the fixes after that are the athlete off the course.
Results and progress
Ranks, finish times, eliminations and the distance to goal of an athlete out of the race are the published results (Red Bull X-Alps live ranking), collected by hand and matched to the tracks.
Everything else is measured here from the tracks and is unofficial: the progress along the route every day, where each athlete stood at night, the distance hiked and flown. Turnpoints count in route order, each on the first fix inside its cylinder after the previous one was tagged. The distance to goal from a position is the distance to the edge of the next untagged cylinder plus the optimised route from that turnpoint on, the way the live tracking measures it.
About the tracks
The tracks are tracker dumps, one file per team and UTC day, copied as is from the live-tracking archive; the archive holds nothing for 28/29 July although the race ran straight through, so a turnpoint passed in those two days counts from the first fix after them. Seven starters have no tracks and stand in the ranking only. The ranking is the organiser’s live board, the route a reconstruction (no route file survives), so its cylinder sizes are approximations.
Data
- The route: one XCTrack task over every day, its cylinders as the organiser set them.
- Ground model: Mapterhorn, each country's best open terrain model in one (swissALTI3D in Switzerland).
How a track becomes hiking, flying and stops in general is on the site's about page.