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Week of Adventure AR Training Camp

Jacqueline Windh / 19.11.2007

Are you limited in the races you can enter because of your lack of technical skills? Here’s your chance to work on those whitewater, ropes and navigational skills in sunny Mexico

Frontier Adventure Racing has just announced the itinerary for this year’s AR training camp in Jacomulco, Mexico. This year they will actually be offering two weeks of training: an basic Adventure Race Skill Development Camp from March 8-15, which will teach skills that many of us are a bit nervous about, including whitewater skills, rope techniques, navigation and more; followed by an advanced Expedition Race Training Camp the following week March 16-22.

The courses are organized by Frontier Adventure Racing – well known to adventure racers around the world for organizing the Raid the North series of races – and Esprit Rafting, also based in Canada, which since 1992 has been organizing whitewater tours and training courses around the world. The instructors include:
Geoff Langford, who has an AR racer who has been competing internationally since 1999 and has been Race Director for Frontier Adventure Racing since 2002
Lawrence Foster, captain of Team Holofibre and designer of AR courses including AR World Champs (Newfoundland 2004) and Raid the North Extreme (British Columbia 2007)
Erin and Jim Coffey, co-owners of Esprit Rafting, who, between them have years of international-level whitewater competition experience as well as even more years of experience as instructors in whitewater skills, swiftwater rescue, first aid, and wilderness camping.

This announcement explains what will be covered in the first week – which includes getting your certification in both First Aid for Adventure Racers and Swiftwater First Responder. Stay tuned to SleepMonsters for an upcoming announcement that will give the details of the advanced program. The courses are deliberately organized so that you can pick which course is appropriate to your own skills background: sign up for one or the other, or go for both courses back-to-back.

I’ll be there for the first week, and I am really looking forward to all the new skills we will be learning. The organizers have mentioned to me how Jacomulco is the ideal setting for this course – between the variety of the terrain which allows for practise of all of the different skills, and the hot weather that definitely makes the water skills a lot easier to pick up... and then of course there is the amazing food.

Check out the course itinerary: