Posts Tagged ‘ adventure race ’

I would first like to say that I have not seen what this season’s The Amazing Race participants look like, smell like, how tall or short they are, if they have a lazy eye or X-ray vision but here are my rankings (worst to first) sight unseen. I’m basing these rankings the same way George [...]

Wanna win $100,000!!! Who doesn’t. We came upon this crazy urban adventure competition that rivals that of the eco-challenge.Twenty-four different athletes will compete across 20 different disciplines over the course of a WEEK! This competition will be taking place in June 2010 in Oregon. It will span over the Columbia Gorge, Portland, Mt-Hood, and the [...]

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 [...]

TARers left the Bernese Alps and headed to Munich, Germany. Their first task was to drive to the outskirts of town and hop in a sky gondola 6,000 feet to the top of a mountain. It is here where the racers encountered a Road Block. Road Block One team member must paraglide 6,000 feet while [...]

One night in Bangkok and the world’s your oyster was enough…teams now off Guilin, China to see who’s not a “bitch.” Things got ugly is this episode. Luke and Jen tried to grab the the first clue from the clue box. In all fairness, Luke got to the clue box first (by literally less than [...]

Before I began I wanted to let you know that today (April 12th) is the Thai New Year. I celebrated! Did you? Now onto Bangkok, Thailand… …team maneuvered on the Chao Phraya traditional boats, but before they could navigate teams had to assemble the propeller. Sounds easy. The Harvard attorney’s didn’t get it right. I [...]

Yesterday I posted a recap of last week’s TAR. Sadly our pick (Terence and Sarah) were eliminated. We vowed to regroup and pick our new team. Here’s what we are going to do: There is one particular team that I’m rooting for: Toni and Dallas. Do I think they are going to win? Maybe. Maybe [...]

Giving back to the local community is very important to all of us here at High Trek Adventure. In 2008 we helped raise over $5,000! We look forward to quadrupling that amount in 2009! Our goal is to help raise $20,000 to various local charities throughout the US. Here are some great charities that focus [...]

Whether you voted for Senator John McCain or President-elect Barack Obama it is a historical first in our country. It’s an amazing period in America that just 143 years after slavery ended that a nation elected an African American. Here are some other famous first in the U.S. (that pertain to High Trek Adventure): Boston [...]

It’s off to Delhi, India and the flight was super cozy with everyone on the same aircraft! Exciting! Once touch down, teams hailed cabs and its off to Moonlight Motors Taxi. Ken and Tina got screwed this time around with a cabbie that had no clue where to find the taxi depot. Once a Moonlight [...]