Welcome: who, what, when, where and why...
Welcome to our blog about our adventures "up north"! I'm new at the blogging thing, so bear with me.
Who: The Arctic Challengers team
Car 2: Glenn Wallace and R.Dale Kraushaar, Subaru Forester XT (silver)
Car 3: Paul Eklund and Kala Rounds, Subaru Forester XT (gold)
Car 14: Steve Perret and Kathryn Hansen, Subaru Impreza RS wagon
What: The Alcan Winter Rally 2008
Every four years since 1988, a group of crazy people have been heading up into the frozen north of Canada and Alaska to compete in the Alcan Winter Rally, as well as share an incredible experience together in a very remote part of the continent.
The event consists of three driving activities:
Transit stage: getting from point A to point B, not scored. There are a lot of these miles on Alcan.
Regularity stage: given precise distance and average speed instructions, we are timed to the second early or late in a variety of challenging road conditions.
Ice racing: we compete in timed sections on a frozen lake or speedway (one car on course per run, no paint swapping).
When: February 17-26, 2008
Where: We depart from Kirkland on February 17 (Day 1), and finish on February 26 (Day 10) in Jasper, Alberta, a total distance of 4850 miles. Then of course we will have to drive back to Seattle.... (another 576 miles).
The full map is here.
Why: because it is there.
In future entries we will document our past adventures, our preparations, our sponsors, provide more info on our team, and some of the updates we plan to provide en route.
Glenn
Who: The Arctic Challengers team
Car 2: Glenn Wallace and R.Dale Kraushaar, Subaru Forester XT (silver)
Car 3: Paul Eklund and Kala Rounds, Subaru Forester XT (gold)
Car 14: Steve Perret and Kathryn Hansen, Subaru Impreza RS wagon
What: The Alcan Winter Rally 2008
Every four years since 1988, a group of crazy people have been heading up into the frozen north of Canada and Alaska to compete in the Alcan Winter Rally, as well as share an incredible experience together in a very remote part of the continent.
The event consists of three driving activities:
Transit stage: getting from point A to point B, not scored. There are a lot of these miles on Alcan.
Regularity stage: given precise distance and average speed instructions, we are timed to the second early or late in a variety of challenging road conditions.
Ice racing: we compete in timed sections on a frozen lake or speedway (one car on course per run, no paint swapping).
When: February 17-26, 2008
Where: We depart from Kirkland on February 17 (Day 1), and finish on February 26 (Day 10) in Jasper, Alberta, a total distance of 4850 miles. Then of course we will have to drive back to Seattle.... (another 576 miles).
The full map is here.
Why: because it is there.
In future entries we will document our past adventures, our preparations, our sponsors, provide more info on our team, and some of the updates we plan to provide en route.
Glenn
Best wishes to Glenn and the Arctic Challengers Team!
Godspeed
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I remember you talking about this on a random bus ride to an Expedia event, and I wanted to read about your adventure. I am glad you are blogging and capturing this very cool event!
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