DART-nuun Takes on Lake Tahoe 24 Hour Adventure Race
Hello DART-nuun fans! Welcome to coverage of the 2007 Big Blue Kit Carson 24 Hour Adventure Race from Lake Tahoe, California.
The race began this morning at approximately 10:30am on the white sandy shores of North Lakeâ??s Tahoe City. Once race director Todd Jackson held his pre-race briefing and distributed maps to eager team captains, a blizzard of paddle blades from the 28 teams scrambling their kayaks into and across the lake turned the morningâ??s remarkably delicate, turquoise waters into a teaming mix of splashing wakes.
This weekendâ??s DART-nuun squad, made up of Seattle-based captain and navigator Glenn Rogers and San Francisco Bay Area residents Mari Chandler and Andy Tubbs, pushed off from the beach in their triple kayak and quickly paddled out through the other kayaks into the front of the pack, where the other triple boats planed across the water.
The raceâ??s first checkpoint steered the brightly colored kayak armada southwest a couple of miles and around a triangular, inflatable orange buoy no further than 30 met
ers from a popular Tahoe City beach. DART-nuun arrived to CP1 only seconds after the first place team, Dogs and Space, and immediately turned back to the northeast toward CP2. A red, yellow and blue Salomon banner fluttering in the warm breeze guarded the entrance to CP2, which was nestled in sun-bleached boulders resting on the shallow sands off Crystal Bay Point near the California/Nevada border.
Dogs and Space held onto their slight lead on DART through the rest of the two and a half hour-long paddle leg that finished on the bikini-clad beach of Sand Harbor located on the east side of Lake Tahoe.
DART-nuun and the two other lead teams, after stowing their boats and quickly changing into dry gear, hoofed it on foot up the paved road that turned south out of Sand Harbor en route to Spooner Lake State Park, the main transition area where bins of food and bikes awaited.
DART-nuun made good time on this running leg. The team arrived off of the two hour run first at Spooner Lake State Parkâ??s CP4 looking in good spirits. Nipping at DARTâ??s heals and also looking strong and confident, Team Dogs in Space arrived at CP4 only 2 minutes behind DART.
Instead of going out on a biking leg, which many racers were expecting since their bikes awaited them in the transition area, race staff handed the teams an intricate, new topographic map for an embedded orienteering section around the Spooner Lake area. DART team members seemed delighted by this surprise. No wonder, as they are strong on foot and Glenn is skilled in Rogaine-style orienteering, which allows teams to attack the control points in any order. In the transition area, Andy and Mari refueled and repacked packs, while Glenn studied their new map and highlighted what he thought the quickest route to obtain the required 20 out of 25 control points would be. And then DART headed off again running into the woods.
Race staff estimate the orienteering leg will take the fastest teams roughly 3 hours to complete. This leaves DART-nuun plenty of time to finish the orienteering section before nightfall. Slower teams may be forced to complete this section during the night with headlamps.
More to come when teams return from the orienteering section and head out on their mountain bikes for a long night of exploring East Lake Tahoeâ??s 9,000 foot precipices and alpine forests.
Dart-nuun team member and race-volunteer-for-the-weekend, Jen Ratay, reporting out.
The race began this morning at approximately 10:30am on the white sandy shores of North Lakeâ??s Tahoe City. Once race director Todd Jackson held his pre-race briefing and distributed maps to eager team captains, a blizzard of paddle blades from the 28 teams scrambling their kayaks into and across the lake turned the morningâ??s remarkably delicate, turquoise waters into a teaming mix of splashing wakes.
This weekendâ??s DART-nuun squad, made up of Seattle-based captain and navigator Glenn Rogers and San Francisco Bay Area residents Mari Chandler and Andy Tubbs, pushed off from the beach in their triple kayak and quickly paddled out through the other kayaks into the front of the pack, where the other triple boats planed across the water.
The raceâ??s first checkpoint steered the brightly colored kayak armada southwest a couple of miles and around a triangular, inflatable orange buoy no further than 30 met
ers from a popular Tahoe City beach. DART-nuun arrived to CP1 only seconds after the first place team, Dogs and Space, and immediately turned back to the northeast toward CP2. A red, yellow and blue Salomon banner fluttering in the warm breeze guarded the entrance to CP2, which was nestled in sun-bleached boulders resting on the shallow sands off Crystal Bay Point near the California/Nevada border.Dogs and Space held onto their slight lead on DART through the rest of the two and a half hour-long paddle leg that finished on the bikini-clad beach of Sand Harbor located on the east side of Lake Tahoe.
DART-nuun and the two other lead teams, after stowing their boats and quickly changing into dry gear, hoofed it on foot up the paved road that turned south out of Sand Harbor en route to Spooner Lake State Park, the main transition area where bins of food and bikes awaited.
DART-nuun made good time on this running leg. The team arrived off of the two hour run first at Spooner Lake State Parkâ??s CP4 looking in good spirits. Nipping at DARTâ??s heals and also looking strong and confident, Team Dogs in Space arrived at CP4 only 2 minutes behind DART.
Instead of going out on a biking leg, which many racers were expecting since their bikes awaited them in the transition area, race staff handed the teams an intricate, new topographic map for an embedded orienteering section around the Spooner Lake area. DART team members seemed delighted by this surprise. No wonder, as they are strong on foot and Glenn is skilled in Rogaine-style orienteering, which allows teams to attack the control points in any order. In the transition area, Andy and Mari refueled and repacked packs, while Glenn studied their new map and highlighted what he thought the quickest route to obtain the required 20 out of 25 control points would be. And then DART headed off again running into the woods.
Race staff estimate the orienteering leg will take the fastest teams roughly 3 hours to complete. This leaves DART-nuun plenty of time to finish the orienteering section before nightfall. Slower teams may be forced to complete this section during the night with headlamps.
More to come when teams return from the orienteering section and head out on their mountain bikes for a long night of exploring East Lake Tahoeâ??s 9,000 foot precipices and alpine forests.
Dart-nuun team member and race-volunteer-for-the-weekend, Jen Ratay, reporting out.
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