We are thrilled to bring you a cornucopia of urban and wilderness
adventures in 2012! Our schedule consists of 10 Street Scramble events, three rogaines, two
Sprint series, and the Henry Coe Adventure Trex.
Take off for 90 minutes, 3 hours, or even 7 hours in some of the most
beautiful urban meccas of the Bay Area, with a little wild sprinkled in... All four of our 2011
Street Scramble venues continue into 2012, with Santa Cruz, Millbrae, and Berkeley and
Oakland Hills events expanding to also include a 7 hour division. In addition, we introduce
a three-event San Francisco neighborhood Street Scramble lineup (to increase to five events in 2013), and add Los Gatos, Monterey, and San Carlos as our newest Street
Scramble locations.
We'll do a few things differently—the Mill Valley event features a different
start/finish location, and an afternoon schedule to give you a glimpse of evening lights of San
Francisco across the Bay. But the core of our event concept remains—Street Scramble
events are a family-friendly way to explore the neighborhood, bikes and pets are always welcome,
and so are walkers, endurance athletes, and everyone in-between. Choose your own challenge and
craft your adventure using our maps and your own power!!
Los Gatos Street Scramble
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07 January 2012
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Los Gatos, CA USA
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Mission Street Scramble
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28 January 2012
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San Francisco, CA USA
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Millbrae Street Scramble
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07 April 2012
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Millbrae, CA USA
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Santa Cruz Street Scramble
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19 May 2012
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Santa Cruz, CA USA
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Mill Valley Street Scramble
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30 June 2012
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Mill Valley, CA USA
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Monterey Street Scramble
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28 July 2012
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Monterey, CA USA
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Berkeley and Oakland Hills Street Scramble
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25 August 2012
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Berkeley, CA USA
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Chinatown Street Scramble
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13 October 2012
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San Francisco, CA USA
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Land's End Street Scramble
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17 November 2012
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San Francisco, CA USA
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San Carlos Street Scramble
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08 December 2012
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San Carlos, CA USA
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We start with two shorter events, with 2 hour and 4 hour divisions. Get Lost!! in
Fort Ord will allow bikes, and even the on-foot participants have been asked by the authorities
to stick to trails... there's still a possibility of unexploded ordnance lurking in the bush
in this area, formerly military training grounds. Get Lost!! in Black Diamond will use most of
Black Diamond Mines Preserve—steep hills, amazing views of the Bay and the Sacramento
River delta. This event is foot-only, and off-trail travel is allowed and welcome. Both of these
events will feature brand-new rogaine-standard maps made by Get Lost!! using precision survey
data.
In September, we plan a Redwood Coast adventure; go for 4 hours or 8 hours in
a misty rainforest, and enjoy the fine dining and beer Mendocino and Fort Bragg have to offer!
Bikes welcome. Most of the course will be on trails. If this event is a success, we hope this
area can accommodate future 24 hour rogaines, and an Adventure
Trex or two.
Our awe with Coe continues to lead us into new terrain. Outside the
rogaining world, that is in western Europe, the predominant endurance/navigation format is
not rogaines but mountain marathons—such as The Original. We would like to introduce the concept of a two-day stage race
to North American rogainers.
If permits work out, you will get your chance at spending up to 40 Hours With
Mr. Coe in two installments. We will also welcome bikes. The race will go A
to B to C, with a mandatory overnight at B (bikes go A to B to A
for this first Trex to make the logistics easier). Start will be on Friday
02 November at 22:00 hours. The first cutoff is at B at 18:00 hours that
Saturday (PDT); get all checkpoints you can in-between. The course will be such that the best
team will be able to complete the first stage in about 14 hours, and the mid-pack team
should just barely be able to get all first-stage checkpoints under the 20 hour time
limit.
But if you aren't in the mood for an extended adventure, no worries—the
shortest-distance trek between A and B will be less than 10 miles, and after a
few hours of hiking under night stars you'll be at the campground! Hot food and tents will be
set at B, the intermediate point. We'll also transport some of your equipment—but not
an excessive amount, so that all teams will be forced to decide what they like more: a
comfortable trek with minimum gear, or a warm night at the campground.
Sunday's race—the second stage—starts at 01:00 (PST), cutoff at 13:00, and will
also feature a rogaine-style course. Hikers finish at C while bikes return to Point A.
The winning bike teams will have covered over 100 miles in all.
The bike course will include a subset of the foot checkpoints, and
all bike checkpoints will be on trails.
Our plans no longer call for producing a one-day Ultralong-format event on or around
18 March 2012—Get Lost!! in Black Diamond (a rogaine) will be held in its stead.
We do plan to offer a two-race Sprint competition on 17 March on new ISSOM
maps by Ben Legg in Pleasant Hill, CA. Both Sprints will be sanctioned Orienteering USA
events.
And in June, Sprint the Golden Gate returns! It will again be a five-stage affair, wholly
within San Francisco. The first stage will be on Friday afternoon at Land's End—interval
starts, Orienteering USA sanctioned. The following three stages will constitute an elimination
tournament; Stages Two and Three in Golden Gate Park, and the elimination Final,
Stage Four, at San Francisco State University. On Sunday morning there'll be yet another
Sprint on an expanded map of McLaren Park.
Excited? ... we are!!
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