6th Annual Arctic Team Challenge
Eastgreenland.com won!
Jesper Kunuk Egede / 26.07.2006
There were a few changes to the expedition stage of ATC. As the route for Day 3 this year was extremely hard, the expedition stage was shortened somewhat. A checkpoint was skipped, saving the faster teams about 3 hours – and the slower teams will save up to 6-7 hours on this. That must feel so good!
Also, checkpoint D4 was moved. Huge icebergs at D4 worried the security people and we decided to move the D4 checkpoint to another safer location. Safety first…
When we last updated, the teams had finished the mountain bike relay race and went on to cross the island to basecamp, traversing difficult mountains and glaciers.
Base camp is supposed to be a place where the teams gather to collect strength for the next day’s expedition race. There’s usually a concert and some really good grilled food. However, most teams missed out on the concert (only Eastgreenland.com made it), but that was not a problem for singer Hera. She gave two concerts. This meant that the Icelandic team and the Ladies actually got to hear her beautiful singing.
The teams started at 9:00 in the morning. These were the arrival times at basecamp:
Eastgreenland.com 18:32:07
PharmaNord 20:26:57
Neriusaaq/Thomas Kristensen 21:03:10
Les Moulineaux 22:40:50
Intersport Iceland 23:22:35
Pihl A/S 23:01:40 (did a shorter route)
Arctic Ladies 16:07:10
Feed the Machine 02:56:56
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