Home Live Race HQ Race Info Registration Team List News & Media Message Board Sponsors About Us Quick Race Summary Race date: August 12-15 2010 Race location and host hotel: the Balsams Grand Resort Hotel in Dixville Notch, New Hampshire. More about the race location can be found here. Race duration: 3 days Team composition: 2, 3, or 4 racers of any gender. The "premiere division" for prizes is 4 person coed. Note: only 4-person coed teams are eligible for the AR World Series prizes. Race disciplines: paddling, mountain biking, trekking, fixed ropes, conservation projects, and navigation throughout the race including technical orienteering. For more details, see below. Support crew: no support crews will be allowed, but we will have a "friends & family" program available for those wishing to closely follow the action but not render assistance to teams. No outside assistance is permitted. Teams will turn-in gear bins at the race check-in; these bins will be staged for teams at specific locations along the race course. Don't count on seeing those gear bins very often, however -- maybe even just once during the race! Required gear: refer to the gear list for the specifics. You should also review the gear bin requirements. For registration details visit the registration specific page. Official race rules are available here. Race format: traditional "first across the finish line" wins. There are 2 mid-race cut-offs, approximately 36 hours into the race and 45 hours into the race, that will route slower teams on to shorter & easier routes; this keeps the race from being 5-days long for an inexperienced or slower team. There are no optional checkpoints except for a section near the end of the race where teams can earn time bonuses for visiting optional checkpoints. Besides this final area of the course, there are no optional checkpoints and everyone can focus on just racing the same course and beating the other teams and course cut-offs. Untamed New England is proud to be an AR World Series event and a qualifier for the Adventure Race World Championship. The AR World Series is a circuit of premiere adventure races creating a 12 month calendar of professional events around the world. A world champion will be crowned at the 2010 Adventure Racing World Championship in Spain in October, and podium finishers at Untamed New England will qualify for this Championship race! For three days, August 12-15 2010, teams will race non-stop through the mountains, rivers, and forests of Untamed New England. They must travel under their own power. Teams will navigate with map and compass through pine forests, wetlands, and mountains; paddle rivers fed by melting snow; bike staggering mountain passes and twisty trails; dangle from ropes on exposed cliff faces. The racing is non-stop until they cross the finish line. There are no aid stations, no support crews, no specified "rest" periods; it's just the team, totally self-sufficient, against the Untamed New England course. Race Discipline Details Mountain Biking Teams will mountain bike on a variety of surfaces; asphalt vehicular roads, gravel jeep roads, and technical singletrack may all factor into the course. Racers are required to use a mountain bike -- no road bikes -- , ride with a helmet at all times, and have a front and rear mounted safety light (full details in the gear section). Teams should expect the unexpected, including some portions that may not be rideable (hike-a-bike) and even bike-&-tie. Bike & Tie is where a team has fewer bikes than they have racers -- the key to making bike-&-tie work is in the "leapfrogging", where one teammate rides ahead and drops the bicycle. For example, if you figure that it is 1 mile from where you are standing to where your next checkpoint is, one teammate would start on the bicycle, ride 1/2 mile, drop the bicycle and continue on foot. The other teammate would start off running, find the bicycle 1/2 mile down, and ride to the checkpoint. If both teammates are of even running and biking abilities they should arrive at the checkpoint at nearly the same time. If one teammate is a substantially stronger runner it may make more sense for that person to have a shorter time on the bicycle. Paddling The race will include significant paddling sections, on both flat and moving water. Teams should be prepared for up to Class 2+ water in some cases and possibly night paddling. There also could be portaging opportunities for teams. The specific boats are being finalized (such as canoes and/or kayaks) and we will update this area soon as our plans are complete. The race will provide watercraft for teams; this includes basic PFDs and basic paddles. Teams are welcome to bring additional paddles, pfds, and canoe seats but it will be your responsibility to fit them into your allotted gear bins or plan to carry them as needed. We will not be transporting additional paddle gear beyond what fits into the gear bin requirements. Trekking Trekking will figure prominently in the race course. The term "Trekking" can mean running, hiking, walking -- in essense travel on foot. Some of the trekking will be on trails . . . some of the trekking will be off trail. The race is projected at 170+ miles (one could plan on 50 trekking miles or more), so teams should be prepared for long stretches of foot travel through rugged terrain and without assistance. Fixed Ropes Teams will have fixed rope sections in the race; these will include rappelling and ascending (or "jumar") with mechanical ascenders. There may also be traverses and other less-technical rope challenges. The ascent/descent may have free-hanging sections (where there is a rock overhang and contact with the wall is not feasible) and several hundred feet of distance. There will be no knots to cross while rappelling or ascending. The race sites will all be staffed with professionals, and the race organization will provide basic mechanical ascenders and leg loops to teams. If teams want to bring their own ascending equipment, they are welcome to so long as they are prepared to carry it on the course and have it approved in advance by our rope team. Teams must bring their own climbing harnesses and other personal climbing equipment; see the gear list for details. Teams may choose to bypass a rope section but will incur a significant time penalty (4 hours or more per racer). Conservation Projects Teams will complete environmental projects through the course of the race. We never reveal the details before the event, but participants should be prepared for some fun activities that serve to conserve and protect the natural areas we enjoy through racing. We have partnered with numerous environmental organizations to include some very creative projects, and 2010 Untamed New England will be no exception. Orienteering Wilderness navigation and orienteering will be required of teams for the duration of the race. Teams will have a list of checkpoint locations, race provided topographic maps, and their compasses and altimeters to help them find their way; GPS devices are not permitted. Teams will need to find their own way to each checkpoint; some locations will be easier to find than others, and there will most certainly be some "technical" orienteering locations where teams will need strong navigating skills (reading terrain, contours, etc). Some checkpoints will be staffed by race volunteers, while other checkpoints will be marked with orienteering flags. The race-provided maps will be full colour topographic maps, water-proof, with UTM grid lines printed on them; supplementary maps may be of any variety. The race booklet, which contains the checkpoint locations as UTM coordinates, and official race maps will be distributed to teams before the race. There will be locations on the course where teams will need to "plot on the clock" meaning additional UTM coordinates will be provided and teams will need to plot checkpoint locations while the race is in progress. Outside maps are NOT permitted.      Overall Rank Division Team Name 1 Premiere ATP/Salomon  2 Premiere Team Kinetic  3 Open Team Endurancelife  4 Premiere Berlin Bike / Eastern Mountain Sports  5 Premiere NYARA  6 Premiere Team Merrell/Zanfel Adventure  7 Premiere Milton Basement Racers  8 Premiere Team Halfwaythere.com  9 Open UltraBambi  10 Premiere Salomon / Chlorophylle  11 Premiere Team Untamed Adventure  12 Open Ducky Fuzz and the Masters of Rubber  13 Open SEA SPORTS ADVENTURE Racing Team  14 Open Team Cogeyed AR  15 Open Dirty Avocados  16 Open www.adventuresportsmag.co.uk  17 Open Towanda  18 Premiere Green Mountain Adventure Racing Association  19 Premiere Breathe Multisport Mag  20 Open Raggamuffin Racing  21 Open Team Average Joe's  22 Open Wing It!  23 Open Running with Scissors  24 Premiere TrackMe360.com  25 Premiere Team WMUR – NH Chronicle  26 Premiere Team Pain Syndicate  27 Premiere Had No Plans  DNF 28 Open Dirty Avocados #2  DNF 29 Premiere E2 Vert le raid  DNF 30 Premiere GOALS ARA  DNF 31 Premiere NaturalSelectionAR.com  DNF 32 Open Tecnu Extreme/Staphaseptic  DNF 33 Open brendacohenjewelry.com  DNF 34 Open RaceIt/Odyssey AR/ASR  DNF 35 Premiere East Coast Bicycles/Richmond ASR  DNF 36 Premiere Mundial Saint-Raymond  DNF 37 Premiere NineOFour-253-Eight4Five-617  DNF 38 Premiere Vertleraid.ca  DNF 39 Premiere Team ASICS-XT  DNF 40 Open Team Bailout  DNF 41 Open Calleva  DNF 42 Open Axis Gear  DNF 43 Premiere Team Littleton Bike & Fitness / Untamed NE  DNF 44 Open Estoril Portugal XPD Team  DNF Review the 2008 race course >> Overall Rank Division Team Name Finishing Course 1 Pro Summit Achievement Full 2 Pro Running Free Full 3 Pro Littleton Bike And Fitness Full 4 Pro NYARA Full 5 Pro Team Gung Ho / Hype Full 6 Pro Aquan / RWG Full 7 Pro Berlin Bike Full 8 Open Wicked Pissah / Fitness Together Full 9 Open Team Pain Syndicate Full 10 Open Calleva Full -1 11 Open Wishful Thinking Fools Alt 1 12 Open NaturalSelectionAR.com Alt 1 13 Open NYARA Men Alt 2 14 Open Nine O`Four 253 Alt 2 15 Open Ride Too Fast Alt 2 16 Open brendacohenjewelry.com Alt 2 17 Open Running With Scissors Alt 3 18 Pro Team ABC / Capital Bikes Alt 3 19 Pro BreatheMag.ca Multisport Magazine Alt 3 20 Open Fugawee Alt 3 - - UltraBambi Unofficial - - Lakedaemonians Unofficial - - GMARA Withdrawn (Medical) - - Team A-List Withdrawn © Untamed New England Adventure Race | Call Us At 1-877-486-8263 | More An Adventure Than A Race