This isn’t a top-ten run, Leo realized. This is an old build. A ghost from a version of the mountain that no longer exists.

He clicked yes.

The world resolved into a dusty, late-afternoon light. He stood at “The Pumphouse,” the game’s only persistent landmark—a crumbling concrete foundation at the top of the Kaibab. A digital wind hissed through ponderosa pines. The bike beneath him, a hardtail with chunky 29” tires, felt real. He could almost smell the creosote.

The Ghost ahead began to… change. Its movements became jagged, as if frames were missing. It would skip from one switchback to the next, or ride through a boulder as if it weren’t there. Then Leo saw it: the Ghost was showing him a line that didn’t exist in the current terrain. A rock that had crumbled away in his run was still there in the Ghost’s. A fallen tree was absent.