TrustPower Adventure Quest
Hot Competition in the TrustPower Adventure Quest
News Release / 02.10.2006
Competitors from around the lower South Island including Christchurch, Dunedin and Southland were joined by visitors from Te Puke, Wellington and Blenheim, to solve the clues and find the tags.
A record field of 80 teams of two experienced great sunny racing conditions with the rain forecast holding off until the last teams were home. Competitors returned to the HQ in Buckingham Green with smiles on their faces and exciting tales to tell. A few teams were baffled by where the exact location of a few cryptic clues, and the occasional clue that had 'gone missing' or faded out.
The TrustPower Adventure Quest tasked teams to head out in to the hills of Arrowtown in search of orienteering adventure clues on foot and mountain bike. Teams were allowed 6 hours to complete the course and collect as many clues as possible.
On foot, the course covered Bush Creek, Big Hill Area and Sawpit Gully. By bike competitors travelled around the town of Arrowtown and around the Arrow River Gorge including a climb up Tobins Track onto the Crown Terrace.
Final results were dependent on teams arriving back in to HQ before the 6 hour deadline when points were deducted for late arrival. Many returned with just seconds to spare.
Team 'The Dips', Chris Stewart and Andy Taylor from Dipton (74 points) had a clear win from Team Sky City, Neil Wakefield and Tom Lucas from Queenstown (68 points) in the open adventure field.
When asked what was the secret to the win Stewart would not elaborate except to say that their experience from last year assisted in some of the route finding decisions during the day. Both the these teams were sent on the biking section and completed the trekking stage second.
First Adventure female team for the second year in a row went to ‘Two Wise Chicks’, Sarah Lei and Jackie Hamilton from Cromwell collecting one more point than last years effort (50 points). Dunedin team Anderson Lloyd Caudwell, Eva Deans and Annabel Ritchie collected 39 clues in the allotted time to take second place in this division.
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