Musing and Errata on the world of Adventure Racing from the Yak
presented by MPGear.com

They entered like two garden gnomes left out in the snow too long. Their pointed hats were ice encrusted, tools hung haphazardly from their bulky, padded clothes.

Nice little article on the Big Blue Winter Adventure Race in Tahoe with some background on the sport thrown in for the less informed reader. My favorite line:

With names like Beast of the East and Primal Quest, these races evoke the ultimate in type A, survival-of-the-fittest mentality.

That's you :-)