I rigged my backpack up to the side of my bike during the wilderness detours this year. It seemed to work fine for me. It would be cool if someone could make a backpack like this that actually attached to your bike and your back. Like everyone is saying what works for you may or may not work for someone else. I saw all kinds of different set ups. Read all the set up blogs on here.

Chris
I stopped to refill water in the willows near treeline (took my gps with me cuz you can get lost in those willows just trying to find the water then back to your bike)
Yeah great night with the full moon! incredible experience!
Hope to see you around
Jeff

I agree no checkpoints as well. Just don't like to see this happen esp. to a Veteran CTR racer. Just throwing out suggestions.
Seems like the race is becoming super popular and it the intensity of it is no joke.. disclaimer or not.
I worked night shifts in hospitals for 8 years and know what it means to be sleep deprived... I had lots of sleep deprived moments with
critical decision making.. I think working night shifts for that period helped me alot in this race.

Do you remember seeing the moose before spring creek riding up the dirt road wilderness detour climb with all the ATVers? You seemed fine then. I think this is you.
Last time I saw you guys was when you passed me in the early afternoon evening heading up to treeline near Coney. I kept going thru the night.
Sorry this happened to you. I did the Montezuma's Revenge in 2006 and they checked your state of mind in the ski patrol HQ before you dropped back down Lenawee trail into Zuma. This was early/late morning for most mid pack racers in the Revenge. Maybe there could be a checkpoint like this near Hotel draw or Silverton with volunteers? So glad you are OK!
Jeff Rank

Great comments and pics.. Just got back from another 'vacation' at the World Pinball Championships Aug. 9-12 (PAPA) in Pittsburgh, unfortunately I didnt do well.. prob. lack of sleep and focus after the CTR.
I rode mostly alone from monday night to sunday afternoon (pretty much all week). I didn't flat or have a mechanicals until Molas pass when I thought my brake pads went out because my back brake lost its power.. I figured out later that it was the 'heat' of the day making the brake oil less vicous? The brake worked fine in the cool of the night and mornings.
Everyday started with a little shivering and then mostly fun and great memories. I think I was the only one to push the whole night (friday) thru to the Silverton in the full moon (I didn't see anyone elses' lights). I rode up Coney with Pickett-Heaps only to get left in his dust then seeing him (found one from him later) laying (resting on the side of the trail somewhere near the walk down?) in the full moon. He caught up to me in the morning right before Stoney Pass and showed me his hematoma and scrapes on his hip. I told him he would be ok and the Tour de France riders crash like that all the time and he would be ok to keep riding  . My highlight from that night was mr. Owl who sat on each trail post coming down from Coney waiting for me and allowed me to get about 2 feet away from him and look him straight in his eyes then fly off only to see him again down the trail at the next post about 2 feet away again this happened about 5x!! . He was probably using my light to spot his prey more easlily. Never been that close to a bird of prey.
Reading everyone elses' post who was trying to finish the race at the end... I think I was in the same boat with sleep deprivation.. I started seeing things in the trail and lost my balance near the start of  Hotel Draw (near 10:30pm) and had to lay down for a few hours. I had a nice finish with 3 ITT racers on Sunday afternoon and a great conversation with Ezster riding the road back into Durango (she was on her road bike). Great to meet Kurt Sandiforth who caught a ride with me back to Denver where I dropped him off at DIA after boxing his bike up at my home in Breckenridge.
Great race!! no one really knows how truly hard this race is until they attempt it or finish.   
Jeff Rank                   

Stefan
My time looks correct.
I finished with a pack of 3 ITT that left on Sat.
they caught me on the near the finish.. I thought they started in the group on Monday.. they didn't tell me that they were
ITT until after i finished. Needless to say they gave me the adrenline I needed to "race" to the finish.

Jeffrey Rank

Here is a video i threw together from a camera on my handlebars. its a bit shaky.
Jeff Rank

CTR 2011