News from the Support Team: Race Restarts Anxious to be on their way and make sure they make the Pole the teams have opted for a 15.00 hours start (local time) today from Checkpoint 2 just south of Cator Harbour on their way to Checkpoing 3 just North of King Christian Island. They are over Read More…
Hey – we made it in first to checkpoint 2!!!! News from the Race Organisers…. Reversing the result of the first leg. Team Slugs (Jo Winchcombe, Lucy Maizels and Rob MacAllister) were first into Checkpoint 2 at the end of the second leg which started from Polaris. They finished at 18.53 local time Tuesday 19th. Read More…
Tough 2 days walking up coast of Bathurst Island. Should reach CP2 tomorrow. Thx. Jo (Sorry, limited Internet connection – so only a short message again by SMS ) More news from the Polar Race Support Team …. Teams fight to the finish Published: Tuesday, 19th April 2011 08:30 Quite a bit of gamesmanship going Read More…
The weather has improved so we are back on racing. No Internet access so this quick message is sent via SMS. Good to be skiing on land again. Skiing up Bathurst Island. Tough Day, 13.5 miles. 30 percent of the race completed.
With the winds still gusting up to 35 knots and blowing snow no one moved today! With the weather set to improve steadily from tomorrow we are all hoping for better things. We have had a conversation with the Checkpoint team on the satellite phone but because of the weather we have to sit tight. Read More…
News from the main Polar Race website Leg 2 of the Polar Race 2011 started today at 09.40. with all the teams setting out together on their way to CP2, North of Bathurst Island some 130 miles away:- the longest and hardest leg of the Race. The start was in light winds and perfect visibility. Read More…
Here we go…. off on the 2nd leg of the race.
Dear All, Thanks for the comments; I can’t log onto the website – as takes too much phone time. It was really nice to read all the messages & know so many people are thinking of me. Will keep me going through the tough bits (& there are lots of them!) Best regards Jo
N75.23.087 W96.56.247 – Check Point One! The day started with flat light, which made navigation very hard. Around lunch time we saw the other group who were slightly ahead. Around 7 miles out we could see the Polaris Mine, and some old containers. We are skiing around 1.5 miles/hour, so the mine was like a Read More…
N75.09.151 W96.49.598 Friday 8th April It has been a long day – we have done 14 miles & have 14 to go to check point 1, which we should arrive at tomorrow late afternoon / early evening. We had great excitement – around lunch time we saw our first polar bear! It was too far Read More…
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