TrailCon Sponsoring Western States

Just noticed this new addition when I was browsing the Western States website: TrailCon is now listed as official sponsor of the Western States Endurance Run.

I had been thinking about exactly this when TrailCon was first announced: Dylan Bowman sits on the board of the WSER, a nonprofit, and is building TrailCon, a for profit venture, clearly being able to take advantage of the close proximity of these two events. And no matter what Doug Emslie might say, Olympic Valley would be pretty dead in June if it wouldn’t be for Broken Arrow and Western States. I’m not suggesting this is a huge conflict of interest per se, but by TrailCon officially sponsoring Western States they are preempting possible concerns – smart.