Red Fox Adventure Race 2019
Take On the Red Fox Adventure Race
News Release / 15.02.2015
The Red Fox Adventure Races always take place in the most picturesque and most testing conditions in remote country regions. This year the race will be held in the wilderness at a popular tourist region - Karelia region, Onega Lake district. The race center is situated on the banks of the Gulf of Onega Lake, the Svyatukha Lip.
The race area abounds with ridges of high hills. Many narrow lakes up to 35 km length, hills with thirty-meter basalt walls of 1.5 km length and virgin forests wait the participants of the most extreme Red Fox Adventure Race XIV powered by Polartec®.
Course designer Vitaliy Chegarovskiy (a master of orienteering) is well-known in the AR world and has more than 20-years experience of organization adventure races. He is preparing two very interesting 48h and 72h non-stop course. You can expect hundreds kilometres of new adventures! There will be a paddling stage with many portages, tricky trekking, surprising technical stages and the charm of the Karelian wooden architecture!
The order of the main stages will be regulated and the order of reaching of check points is planned in a rogaine format. The competition will take place in two classes: "Short" 48 hours for teams of two or four racers, and "Long" 72 hours for teams of two or four racers.
Red Fox Adventure Race 2015 already for the fourth time is entered in AR European Series (ARES)! So the race results will be included in the overall ranking of AREuroSeries.
You have a great chance to get acquainted with one of the unique places of the Russian nature and real adventures!
You can find out more about the race at http://www.adventure-race.redfox.ru/en/news/
(The website is very detailed and published in English.)
Key Facts;
Location: Karelia, Onega Lake
Date: June 11 - 14, 2015
Race format: expedition
Distances: Short Course: 48 hours for teams of 2 racers (any gender) or teams of 4 racers (at least one woman)
Long Course: 72 hours for teams of 2 racers (any gender) or teams of 4 racers (at least one woman)
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