Picture links from volunteers:
from Greg
from RJ
from Don
from Ian
from Rob – candids
from Rob – Team Pix

Links to “Team GPS Tracking” results. Online viewing and GPX file downloads are available now. We’re still working on getting the O-course points added to the display. (10/18/07).
Treble Hook GPS Tracks
Crazy Eight GPS Tracks
Dirty Dozen GPS Tracks

Overall, the races were a success. The weather was great. The lake level was up. There were no major injuries preventing teams from completing their race. No bikes were reported to be resting on the bottom of Lake Tillery. No search and rescue operations had to be mounted.

Teams, thanks for posting comments about your race experiences below!

Check back soon,

Don Childrey
Race Director
Bushwhack Adventures

Rankings:

Treble Hook – 4 hour course

Coed
1st place: #420 – Has Anyone Seen Shirley? (2p)
- Kevin and Dana Carpenter; from GA

2nd Place: #401 – Adventure Family Race Team (4p)
- Michele, Katy, Darian, Marion; from NC

3rd Place: #402 – Garrigill (4p)
- Todd Wilkinson, Laurence Wilkinson, Kevin Wilkinson, Aaron Wever; from NC

#403 – Just Four Fun (4p); from NC

#404 – POW (4p); from SC

#406 – The Wright Way (2p); from NC

#422 – Team Davidson (2p); from NC

#405 – Port City Crew (2p); from NC

Female
1st Place: #407 – Life Is Good (2p)
- Kim Thomas, Elizabeth DeGraeve; from NC

Male
1st Place: #421 – Team JJ (2p)
- Johnathan Evans, Jonathan Carlson; from VA

2nd Place: #415 – RWA Racing (2p)
- Beau Benich, Ed Inman; from GA

3rd Place: #417 – Team Moxie (2p)
- Matt Kelley, Jon Downie; from NC

#408 – Band of Brothers (4p); from GA

#412 – Born Loosers (2p); from NC, SC

#414 – I’ve Made A Huge Mistake (2p); from NC

#416 – Team Lunchbox (2p); from NC

#413 – Crankdogs (2p); from SC, WV

#419 – Team Yuk (2p); from NC

#410 – AAARGHH… (2p); from NC

#409 – Dead Men Walking (4p); from NC

#418 – Team Scurvy Dawgs (2p); from NC

#411 – Adventure Brewing Company (2p); from NC

Crazy Eight – 8 hour course

Coed
1st Place: #801 – 20-30-40-50 aka “15 Minutes Late” (4p)
- Jeff Sosa, David Blakeley, David Kahler, Marcilynn Smith; from NC

Female

Male
1st Place: #805 – Adventure-Us (2p)
- Michael and Matthew Getz; from NC

2nd Place: #806 – Boo-Yah! (2p)
- Stephen Morris, Micheal Gladden; from NC and SC

3rd Place: #804 – Hoplites (4p)
- Jesse Hagberg, Andrew Thomas, Jason Smith, Eric Cone; from NC, OH, VA

Dirty Dozen – 12 hour course

Coed
1st Place: #1201 – 90 Bones (4p)
- Corbitt Simmons, Drew Fulcher, Tracey Lewis, Lat Purser; from NC

2nd Place: #1206 – Patent Pending (2p)
- Katie Reiland, Michael O’Grady; from GA

3rd Place: #1220 – Columbus TrailBlazers (4p)
- Jeff Soule, Josh Enyart, John Spencer, Jane Rupkowski; from GA

#1204 – 4LPH4 1337-BLUE (2p); from GA
#1202 – Isotopes (4p); from NC, VA

#1205 – 4LPH4 1337-RED (2p); from GA
#1203 – Team Kremlin (4p); from NC, GA

Female
1st Place: #1207 – D.O.H. (2p)
- Sheila Whight, Shelly Fisher; from NC

Male
1st Place: #1210 – Northern Lites (4p)
- Brent Eischen, Alex Lenzmeier, Charles Martz, Dale Greenwell; from NC

2nd Place: #1214 – Gator Bait (2p)
- Will Rishovd, Gus Grey; from SC

3rd Place: #1208 – Blind Mice (4p)
- Victor Sothcott, Mark Parsell, Nathan Phillips, John Vanderhoven; from VA

#1213 – Eagle Claw (2p); from VA

#1211 – 4theadventure (2p); from PA

#1217 – Team Medoc (2p); from NC

#1215 – It’s All Bob’s Fault (2p); from NC

#1209 – NORSA (4p); from NC

#1216 – S&S (2p); from NC

#1219 – Where the Scheidt are we? (2p); from NC

#1212 – Action-Learning.com (2p); from NC

God’s Country Outfitters

The Center for Outdoor Leadership at Pfeiffer University

Hammer Nutrition

WrightSock

Headsweats

Rainbow Cycles

Carolina Orienteering Klubb

Middle Ring Cycles

53×11 Coffee

The Bed and Bike Inn

DTC Publishing

The Adventure Family

Adventure Medical Kits

More to come!

Treble Hook – 4 hour course

Coed
Just Four Fun (4p)
- Jennifer Pate, Robert Bouchard, Christy Hayes, Adam Palmer; from NC and GA

Adventure Family Race Team (4p)
- Michele, Katy, Darian, Marion; from NC

POW (4p)
- Adam Ott, Anna Ott, Brad Wallace, Lori Pepin; from SC

Garrigill (4p)
- Todd Wilkinson, Laurence Wilkinson, Kevin Wilkinson, Aaron Wever; from NC

PortCity Crew (2p)
- Gene Casey, Lauren Brown; from NC

The Wright Way (2p)
- Melanie Wright, Innes Wright; from NC

Has Anyone Seen Shirley? (2p)
- Kevin and Dana Carpenter; from GA

Team Davidson (2p)
-Wes and Erica Davidson; from NC

Female
Life Is Good (2p)
- Kim Thomas, Elizabeth DeGraeve; from NC

Male
Adventure Brewing Company (2p)
- Ken Banner, Dean Plevka ; from NC, SC

Dead Men Walking (4p)
- Daron Hyatt, Michael Hervey, Ashley Huneycutt, Mark Dail; from NC

Born Loosers (2p)
- Roger Beatty, Ulrick Garrison; from NC and SC

Band of Brothers (4p)
- Levi, Beau, Adam, and Jake Burdick; from GA

I’ve Made A Huge Mistake (2p)
- Caleb Rowe, Matthew Kain; from NC

AAARGH… (2p)
- Don and Jamie Thomas; from NC

Team Yuk (2p)
- Franz Morao, Mark Edwards; from NC

Team Scurvy Dogs (2p)
- Don Ruel, Russ Rounds; from NC

Team Lunchbox (2p)
- Tim McDaniel, Brad Sosebee; from NC

Team Moxie (2p)
- Matt Kelley, Jon Downie; from NC

Crankdogs (2p)
- David Smith, Tim Smith; from SC and WV

RWA Racing (2p)
- Beau Benich, Ed Inman; from GA

Team JJ (2p)
- Johnathan Evans, Jonathan Carlson; from VA

Crazy Eight – 8 hour course

Coed
BAIT (2p)
- Kate Bowman, Jeff Thompson; from NC

20-30-40-50 aka “15 Minutes Late” (4p)
- Jeff Sosa, David Blakeley, David Kahler, Marcilynn Smith; from NC

Team Juggernaut (2p)
- Paul Ku, Laura Brezovec; from NC

Female

Male
Hoplites (4p)
- Jesse Hagberg, Andrew Thomas, Jason Smith, Ryan Gallagher; from NC, OH, VA

Adventure-Us (2p)
- Michael and Matthew Getz; from NC

Boo-Yah! (2p)
- Stephen Morris, Micheal Gladden; from NC and SC

Team Snuffleupagus (2p)
- Noah Jordahl, Bob Coughter; from NC

Dirty Dozen – 12 hour course

Coed
4LPH4 1337 – RED (2p)
- Holly Saxby, Jack Forester; from GA

4LPH4 1337 – BLUE (2p)
- Josh Forester, Joanna Erion; from GA

Isotopes (4p)
- Christine Carlisle, Todd Fellesca, Shelley Batteau, Eddie Pryor; from NC and VA

Patent Pending (2p)
- Katie Reiland, Michael O’Grady; from GA

90 Bones (4p)
- Corbitt Simmons, Drew Fulcher, Ashley Giraud, Lat Purser; from NC

Team Kremlin (4p)
- Mark Henley, Kevin Asmann, Lori Amico, Mandolyn Vendala; from NC, GA

Columbus TrailBlazers (4p)
- Jeff Soule, Josh Enyart, John Spencer, Jane Rupkowski; from GA

Female
D.O.H. (2p)
- Sheila Whight, Shelly Fisher; from NC

Male
Eagle Claw (2p)
- Frank Longaker, James Korenoski; from VA,

Northern Lites (4p)
- Brent Eischen, Alex Lenzmeier, Charles Martz, Dale Greenwell; from NC

Team MeDoc (2p)
- Will Corkey, Patrick Downie; from NC

Where the Scheidt are we? (2p)
- Brett Scheidt, Scott Scheidt; from NC

Triangle-AR (2p)
- Bruce Dale, Brian Thompson; from NC

Blind Mice (4p)
- Victor Sothcott, Mark Parsell, Nathan Phillips, John Vanderhoven; from VA

S&S (2p)
- Paul Danie, Mike Dickinson; from NC

It’s All Bob’s Fault (2p)
- Jeff Eichman, Bob Bucki; from NC

NORSA (4p)
- Alan Stewart, Adam Domanski, Michael Rhodes, Timothy Josey; from NC

Gator Bait (2p)
- Will Rishovd, Gus Grey; from SC

4theadventure (2p)
- Dave Mowery, Dan Tack; from PA

Action-Learning.com (2p)
- Doug Gray, Rich Tsui; from NC

* incomplete registration

This GPS tracking technology was used during the recent Untamed Virgina Adventure Race. Visit their website to see what their results.

Interested teams can reserve a Team GPS Tracking unit during the registration process. This optional feature is only $23 per team.

Below is a picture of the units as used in the Untamed Virgina race. The photo is from Will Ramos’ pictures of the race: http://www.waramos.com/thumbnails.php?album=159

Treble Hook – 4hr

Crazy Eight – 8hr

Dirty Dozen – 12hr

Offline registration

Registration form

Waiver form

Registration Fees:
Before August 15, 2007:
$40 per person – Treble Hook – 4hr
$60 per person – Crazy Eight – 8hr
$80 per person – Dirty Dozen – 12hr

After August 15, 2007:
$50 per person – Treble Hook – 4hr
$70 per person – Crazy Eight – 8hr
$90 per person – Dirty Dozen – 12hr

Registration Deadline:
September 14, 2007 (to guarantee yourself a race shirt)
September 28, 2007 (registration closes)

Refund Policy

Discounts
Bushwhack is offering a 10% discount off the registration fee for members of the Trailblazers AR Club. Please use the offline registration form if you are taking this discount, or a Bushwhack Adventures winner or volunteer discount.

*US RaceWorks recently handled registration, GPS tracking, and live coverage for the Untamed Virginia adventure race.

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October 5, 2007
Team Check-in (optional; all courses): 6 – 9 PM at the God’s Country Outfitters store – 1454 US Highway 52 N, Albemarle, NC 28001

Preliminary race briefing and Q&A session: 7:30 – 8 PM at the God’s Country Outfitters store

Friday night free camping check-in: 6 – 10 PM at the Morrow Mountain State Park Group Camp

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October 6, 2007
DIRTY DOZEN COURSE
Team Check-in: 6 – 6:45 AM
Pre-race safety briefing: 6:45 AM
Race Start: 7 AM
Race Cutoff: 7 PM

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CRAZY EIGHT COURSE
Team Check-in: 8 – 8:45 AM
Pre-race safety briefing: 8:45 AM
Race Start: 9 AM
Race Cutoff: 5 PM

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TREBLE HOOK COURSE
Team Check-in: 11 – 11:45 AM
Pre-race safety briefing: 11:45 AM
Race Start: High Noon
Race Cutoff: 4PM

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Awards ceremony (all courses), post-race meal, and party: 7:30 PM until.

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Notes:

- Team check-in will consist of registration paperwork confirmation and racer sign-in. Gear checks will be done during the event.

- Group tent camping on-site for both Friday and Saturday nights is included free for team members and a few support people (please be reasonable). Bathrooms, drinking water and showers are available at the site.

- Morrow Mountain State Park also has rental cabins and a regular campground.

- The Bed and Bike Inn (a Gold Nugget sponsor) has rooms available in Gold Hill, NC.

- There are several motels located in Albemarle, NC. These are 15-20 minutes away.

Required Individual Gear:

• Mountain bike
• Bike helmet
• Whistle
• Type III PFD
• Paddle (can be canoe or kayak paddle)

Required Team Gear:

• Compass
• Waterproof map/passport container
• Canoe (must be capable of carrying two paddlers and two bikes)
• Basic first aid kit (in case of arterial bleeding, first degree bone fractures, etc), including:

- four 4″x4″ compress bandages
- one 3″ ace wrap bandage
- one roll of 1″ waterproof medical tape
- one cell phone in waterproof container, for emergency use only

Recommended optional gear:

• UTM plotting tool (for plotting CP’s on map)
• Pack for carrying food, drink, etc for duration of course
• Bike repair kit (or cash to coerce other teams who have repair kits into helping you out)
• Camera, for capturing the scenery and how much fun you’re having
• Canoe portage wheels (some portages may be suitable for portage wheels)
• Some type of flotation device to keep your bikes from sinking if your canoe happens to turn over.
• Team GPS Tracking Unit (reservable during registration for just $23)

Race numbers, passports/instructions and course maps will be provided.

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Treble Hook – 4hr

Mountain biking and pushing a bike – 1 hour

Paddling and portaging- 1 hour

Orienteering – 1 hour

Special challenges – 30 minutes

Scratching your head and looking around in confusion – 30 minutes

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Crazy Eight – 8hr

Mountain biking and pushing a bike – 2 hours

Paddling and portaging – 3 hours

Orienteering – 2 hours

Special challenges – 30 minutes

Explaining to others why you’re doing this – 30 minutes

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Dirty Dozen – 12hr

Mountain biking and pushing a bike – 4 hours

Paddling and portaging – 5 hours

Orienteering – 2 hours

Special challenges – 30 minutes

Asking yourself why you’re doing this – 30 minutes

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GENERAL EXPECTATIONS

Biking - Riders should be prepared for anything, from flying down paved roads to pushing bikes up rocky trails. Or vice versa.

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Paddling - It shouldn’t take long for most racers to figure out there really isn’t much whitewater in the Uwharries, so I’ll go ahead and acknowledge that. There is enough diversity in bodies of water there to have some flat and some moving water to deal with. Veterans of the Impossible Panther AR might argue that water seeping through gravel bars doesn’t count as “moving water”. This all depends on whether the drought continues into the fall or not.

Along with paddling comes the dreaded portage. You can’t paddle if you’re not on the water, so I’ll include getting your canoe to the water in the list of paddling expectations. There are other options and techniques than simply grabbing one end of the canoe and walking.

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Orienteering – Although finding the checkpoints involves a bit of land navigation and possibly map and compass work, I wouldn’t consider that to be real orienteering. The 2007 Gold Nugget AR courses will include a section of real orienteering, set up by the Charlotte Orienteering Klub. Expect to see a very detailed map, orienteering clue symbols, and controls placed away from trails and roads.

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Special challenges – Be prepared for anything. It wouldn’t be much of a special challenge if it didn’t test your nerve and/or mental skills.

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Racing for 4 to 12 hours – Any time you go out to exercise for more than an hour, refueling and hydrating become much more important. Racers should come prepared to carry all of their food and a significant portion of their fluids with them on the course. Race staff may be able to provide water resupplies during the race, but you won’t know when you will reach them, so plan on being as self-sufficient as possible. Teams may be able to plan for mid-race transitions at their vehicles once they get the maps and passports at the start of the race.

The rules for adventure racing fall into that confusing gray area where we try to reconcile the desire to experience the freedom and adventure of charting one’s own course with the need to provide a common basis upon which to measure the performance of teams and determine a winner. The amount of freedom that can be given to teams is dependent upon how well they exercise their ability to race in a fair and honorable manner.

The fundamental rules of adventure racing are fairly simple. Teams of racers must travel by self-propelled means as they navigate their way to various checkpoints. Race directors spice up an AR with a course design that provides challenges for the teams to overcome. Most AR’s are set in wilderness locations and include the opportunity for teams to use their skills of map & compass navigation, mountain biking, running/trekking, paddling and rope work. Other types of challenges are sometimes included along the way, such as mental tasks and brain games. The goal is for teams to use their combined resources and skills to get through a course as efficiently and as fast as possible while following the rules and instructions set out by the race director.

Below are some basic rules for the 2007 Gold Nugget Adventure Race. Additional rules and instructions will be provided through this website and at the pre-race briefing.

Race management
- All participants must be at least 18 years of age.
- Team members must complete all registration forms and sign all waivers prior to competing.
- Teams may continue unofficially if a team member drops out, upon race official approval, as long as at least two team members remain.
- The race director reserves the right to modify the rules or the course at any time. Any protests can be made after completion of the race to the race director by the team captain.
- All decisions by the race director are final.
- The winner of each category on each course shall be the team with the highest point total after any point penalties have been applied.

Course Cutoff
- There will be absolute finish cutoff times for each course. For the Treble Hook course, the cutoff time will be 4 hours after the official start of the race. For the Crazy Eight course, the cutoff time will be 8 hours after the official start of the race. For the Dirty Dozen course, the cutoff time will be 12 hours after the official start of the race. Teams not returning to the finish line by their respective cutoff times will have their highest valued CP deducted every 3 minutes past the deadline until they finish. Teams returning by the deadline will be ranked as finishers, after appropriate point penalties for any missed CP’s have been applied.

Permitted activities
- Teams are permitted to help each other during the race. Teams may be awarded a time/point bonus for helping other teams in emergency need.
- Towing of teammates is allowed on all legs.

Ten Point Penalty
- Failure to produce any piece of mandatory gear during random gear checks during the race.
- Race numbers must be worn and visible on the front side of each racer as they approach a manned CP or the finish line.
- All members of each team must remain within 100 meters of each other during the event.

Disqualification:
Non-compliance with any of the following rules will result in team disqualification.
- Teams must obey instructions from race officials.
- All racers and spectators must follow a Leave-No-Trace ethic (i.e. all garbage and gear must be carried out by racers and support crew).
- Teams must follow race instructions given by the Race Director, race officials, or found in the race passport.
- Teams must avoid any specified off-limits areas and trails. At all other times it is up to the team to decide navigation from CP to CP.
- The use of any electronic device (including laptop computers, GPS, cellular telephones, etc) other than watches or compasses is prohibited at any time.
- Teams must exclusively travel under their own power during the race.
- Support crews may only render assistance in the Race HQ TA (transition area).
- Helmets must be worn properly during all mountain biking legs.
- All teams members must properly wear a Type III PFD during the paddle legs.
- Teams must provide assistance to any person in danger.
- Interference or alteration of a trail marking, sign, control flag, or punch device is prohibited.