Archive for the ‘ Adventure racing ’ Category

Vegas, baby, VEGAS!

Our great Seattle urban adventure race took the Emerald City by storm. We were sandwhiched in between the Sounders game and the Bite of Seattle (teams actually navigated their way through the Bite)! YIKES! Oh, but what fun! Here are the top 25 teams from our Seattle adventure race who are going to our national [...]

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Let’s get naked!

The Internet is a beautiful thing. I’m not talking about porn, so get your mind out of the gutter. Anyway, I’m surfing or maybe I was Stumbling, either way I came across a Nike Running video that I watched over and over for a variety of reasons: 1. everyone is (tastefully) nude; 2. David Olds [...]

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I get so emotional, baby…

The sixth leg of the race was one of the most emotional parts of the Luke and Cara become overwhelmed by the poverty in India. I agree, it is very sad to see animals and children eating garbage and running around in these terrible conditions
ROAD BLOCK
Care for Camel - a member must feed a camel [...]

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Online Scavenger Hunt Clue #3

High Twit Adventure
HTwitA Clue #2 find artwork resembling the Napoleon character from Animal Farm could be either … 1Clue 3: # of Letter in Akron U mascot + # time UCLA won NCAA basketball tourney - # consonants in Duke’s coach’s name = ? Write the answer on a sheet of paper ans on paper. [...]

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Running in your underwear

Teams continued through the arctic in the 5th leg in a race around the world via the Trans-Siberian Railway!
In this episode we find out a lot:
1. Victor is sneakier than we thought. He momentarily formed an alliance with Margie & Luke to find the a DETOUR task, but then got directions on his own and [...]

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Soggy donuts

I don’t really know what was going on in the world. I haven’t watched TV in over 48 hours (I think I’m going to flatline) and have been in cold and wet Houston. What gives Gulf Coast!?! Anyway, here is High Trek Adventure’s input to the week that was:
Here our fun and interesting blogs, um, [...]

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Amazing Racers to Race HTA Austin

Hey Austin, you think you got what it takes to beat Amazing Racers!?! Now here’s your chance when High Trek Adventure bring its unique urban adventure race to Austin. That right Jodi Wincheski, Kelly Crabb and Christy Cook will all be in attendance on Saturday, April 11 in the live music capital of the world.

To [...]

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You Just Got U-Turned! Crap!

Teams left the land of Dracula and flying to Siberia where the must find the dam on the back of the 10 Russian Ruble bill. (Wow! Mark and Michael are really short! Especially when standing next to Kisha and Jen.)
DETOUR
Stack vs. Contruct (this task tested the wills of most of the teams)
Stack - Teams must [...]

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Online Scavenger Hunt: The Rules

Welcome to High Twit Adventure. High Trek Adventure’s beta version of an online scavenger hunt via Twitter. If you are not Tweeting (micro-blogging) you’re missing out an a HUGE social networking tool. It’s fun and easy, too!
Now to the goods…
Clue #1: How many US state capitals have 2 words? Now find a photo of a [...]

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Evening with Amazing Racers

Sadly to say there will be no weekly write-up, but I had the privilege to hang out with Amazing Race alumni Dallas and Toni Imbimbo along with Kynt and Vyxsin in San Francisco.
Good news, Dallas has agreed to do our San Francisco urban adventure race on July 25th. He might do the San Diego adventure [...]

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