Some Different Perspectives
(as if I haven't posted enough about MIX already!)
Both Brian and Molly have also put together race reports with their own take on the Michigan race.
Molly's report is aimed for those less familiar with the sport and is set up in a slideshow format, with
pictures that she took on the course in addition to pictures from our support crew.
See it here.
Brian also posted his take on his
Attackpoint log.
Corporate Relay Category at the Tri-Loppet
Posted Tue, May 26, 2009 - 2:38 PM
video
Here's the video we did at Wirth Park a couple weeks ago (hosted on Youtube). Presented courtesy of True North Adventures and the City of Lakes Tri-Loppet.
Cute, isn't it? I'm almost tempted. Too bad I already planned on doing the solo division!
Wild Spring 12 hour Video
Posted Mon, May 25, 2009 - 9:43 AM
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Here's my first major attempt at video production. It's a highlight reel from the
Wild Adventure Race
Spring 12 hour in Red Wing back on the 10th of May. Enjoy!
Click on the still frame to play.
A World of Variety: Oneida (Iroquoian)
Extent of the Iroquoian language family
Oneida
is a member of the once important and extensive Iroquoian language family, originally
concentrated in the Northeast U.S. and southeast Canada around the St. Lawrence River. It's
related to Mohawk, Onondaga, Cayuga, and Seneca, of the famous Five Nations Confederacy,
and is only spoken by a couple hundred people, mostly on the modern reservations in New York,
lower Ontario, and eastern Wisconsin.
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Up the River... Again
Ahhh... A trip "up the river" on the long weekend.
Wild River State Park,
that is. The Trillium Trail certainly lived up to its name; this is a hillside in back of the B lane.
Along the Trillium Trail
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MIX Race Report - Part II
Part I of the MIX race report brought us to the beginning of the rafting section on the
Sturgeon River. We had just completed a 33-mile overnight trek through the Chandler Hills. It was mid-morning and we were
ready to be off our feet.
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6th Place at MIX!
At the finish
We had a good run for our first big race of the year! We arrived in Traverse City on Monday night, checked in with race staff
on Tuesday morning, and had our maps and instructions by 3 PM. So that was a reasonable amount of time to plot the points, choose
routes, and assemble a course walkthrough in addition to getting our gear set. Chris made us a pan of chicken lasagna to make
at the house so we didn't have to waste time going out for dinner.
So at 7 AM the next morning, we're all lined up at the boat launch on Elk Lake, about 10 miles NE of Traverse City. It was a
water start, with all of us sitting in 2-person plastic 16-foot canoes on the water. The sun was just up and there was a stiff
headwind from the ESE.
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Signing Off...
Posted Sun, May 10, 2009 - 9:17 PM
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At least for the next several days. We're leaving for MIX on Monday morning. The race starts Wednesday morning, and the
latest race update says that we're going to be carrying SPOT units - so that means *LIVE* GPS tracking.
Follow us at Checkpoint Tracker.
First Race of the Year!
Posted Wed, May 6, 2009 - 9:15 PM
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I've been busy the past few days getting ready for the first big adventure race of the year: the
MIchigan Xpedition race. It's based out of Traverse City in the NE part of lower Michigan, and
six or seven of us are driving out there. Brian, Dave, Molly and I are racing and Rick and Corey are doing support for us.
The race starts on the morning of Wednesday the 13th and ends on Saturday, with a total length of about 300 miles.
Part of our mandatory gear is
aerial distress flares.
I think it's going to be hard to restrain ourselves from setting one off just to see what it can do!
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Anishinaabe - Part IV. A Bad Deal
Placard at Sandy Lake.
Along Highway 169 on the west side of Big Sandy Lake in north central Minnesota, there's a small road leading off to
a rest area -
administered, oddly, by the Army Corps of Engineers because of the dam at the edge of the lake protecting a short channel to the
Mississippi River. A few years ago I put my kayak in the channel just below the dam and paddled fifteen miles into the
Mississippi and down to the
town of Palisade
- a trip I will post about at some point.
But the rest area itself, beyond the small
visitor center and omnipresent pavement, held a surprise - a moderately sized, conical grassy hill surmounted by a circular
monument erected by several local Ojibwe bands, together with a bilingual display describing its significance.
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