Going North!

Team Calleva (Dima, Karen and Vlad) packing up for the 3 day 250 mile Untamed New England adventure race starting Thursday. We managed to fit our bins into 30 lb limit and our next challenge is 12 hours drive to the beautiful Balsams Grand Resort Hotel.

The race has on-line coverage and every team will have satellite trekking device. To see our real time location follow this link. To cheer us up send us a trail mail.
This race we will care photo camera with us on the course and promise tons of photos after the race.
Our team is Calleva, our number is 41.

Team Calleva is sponsored by Calleva Outdoor Adventure. Thank you guys!

Impossible 30 pounds.

Today was the final Untamed New England race training. We worked out different rope techniques: chest ascender - hand ascender, two hand ascenders, prussic - ascender, and heavy-back-pack-on-rope technique.

Untamed will provide ascending gear and we want to be ready for any configuration. We decided not to take our gear, because... we can't fit it into allowed 30 lb weight limit. Yes, most of today's training was not about ropes. It was about gear. Unlike last year, transition gear bins are limited not by volume, but by weight. Only 30 pounds are allowed. We took our last year 24 gallon Untamed New England bins, and filled it out for 3 days race... 41 lb was the minimum weight. Suppose, we will start on bikes, so biking gear are out... still 37 lb. So far the problem remains open and we hope the race director will increase the limit. Grant, please!

Patagonian race presentation at Calleva.

This Friday team Calleva presented the slideshow about Patagonian Expedition Race. 150 people of the Calleva staff took a 30 minutes trip through the most remote adventure of the world.

The first part of the show is online now. Click the link and then F11 to see the full screen.

This small screen is also active, thanks to Google.