I won a $100 gift certificate for a pair of Salomon XA Pro 3D adventure racing/trail running shoes(retail: $100) @ Ocean Blue this weekend. They are fantastic...
Anyone up for a long hike in Desolation Wildnerness this weekend? Start Friday night at 11 pm at Eagle Falls to Pyramid peak and points beyond. About 12-14...
club baarbd is proud to announce that they have partnered with ARNavSupplies to provide discounts of 15% off of the entire ARNavSupplies catalog, including the...
For those of you at Oakridge a couple weeks ago... CP 7. What the heck is a "bearing tree" and did you find it? So I've gotten no reply from the Big Blue...
I wasn't at Oakridge so I don't know exactly what the situation was there... But, in the past I've used the term "bearing tree" when shooting long-distance...
IIRC bearing trees are trees that have a plate/tag similar to a K-Tag on them, but instead of marking the corner of a township and range section, they describe...
Hi everyone, A friend of mine at work passed this on. If you are interested in getting in a little extra kayak training in the bay, this volunteer opportunity...
Hello to all of the BAAR Yahoo Group members. I'm the Director of the Big Blue Adventure Series and I thought I'd write this post as the discussion around CP7...
Team Karma is excited to announce new sponsors for the 2007 Gold Rush 24 Hour Adventure Challenge which will happen near Sonora, California on November 10 and...
Team Karma is excited to announce new sponsors for the 2007 Gold Rush 24 Hour Adventure Challenge which will happen near Sonora, California on November 10 and...
Todd and Racers... I probably echo all the other "dumb" adventure racers out there who thought that the directions to CP7 were either a) completely misprinted...
I do not believe that CP7 was hard to figure out at all. I did not know what a "Bearing Tree" was, but expected to find some sort of tree at that intersection....
Nice post Rick. The use of Bearing Tree as a nav term is not new to the Big Blue Series. Lest we forget the year of 2004 and the race at Reno - Silver Sage AR...
baarbd is putting on their biggest event yet... Join baarbd for the Opposites Attract Races Sprint -- Intermediate -- Advanced Space is limited, so sign up...
ARNavSupplies.com Wins the 2007 Ocean Blue Adventure Race Adventure Racing Navigation Supplies took their 2nd big win of the year at the Ocean Blue Adventure...
Map Nerd Alert! Call me Cliff Claven (sp?).... For those of you who haven't heard of township and range, it was a system developed back in the early days of...
Nice Township and Range trivia: I f you look at the red (T&S) lines on a USGS 7.5 minute topo map, you may notice that the numbering system in the 36 (1 mile...
Steve Blackwell
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Aug 9, 2007 4:56 pm
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I just had to cancel my plans for the big blue 12 hour in September due to a close friends wedding announcment for the same weekend. I'm looking for another...
As someone who, believe it or not, actually still teaches the outmoded Township and Range System (it is referred to as the Public Land Survey System and is...
the nerd in me is eating this up! Keep it coming! Susanna :0) ... Fussy? Opinionated? Impossible to please? Perfect. Join Yahoo!'s user panel and lay it on...
Hello Racers, We hope your 2007 Adventure Racing season is successful. Adventure Racing Costa Rica is nearing to our 24 Hours of Costa Rica, that this year...
Just wanted to remind everyone that we'll be at REI in Concord tomorrow evening to give our AR101 presentation. The fun starts at 7:00 and runs about an hour,...
Update #1 for baarbd's Opposites Attract training race has been posted at http://www.baarbd.org/events/opposites/update_01 If you plan on racing please read it...
Looking at a new Kayak for the 2008 season and wondering if anyone has paddled the Ruahine Intrigue before? It's one of the featured boats on AR.com. ...
Hey gang. I posted yesterday about the Ruahine Intrigue boat and got a few leads on the boat and others out there. Thanks for the replies all, it looks like...
baarbd's Opposites Attract races on Sunday, August 26th, have 3 TA's (Transition Areas) that need a few great volunteers. We'll tell you where they are if you...
