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ARC
Overnight
Adventure Race
Gear
List Information
Teams
and participants are required to have the mandatory race gear
with them at all times during the race, for personal and team
safety. Teams and participants may be checked throughout the
race, for some or all of this gear. Teams will be penalized
accordingly and/or disqualified from the race if they do not
have some or all of the individual and team mandatory race
equipment.
Prior to each race, all team members will be required to sign
a form that acknowledges that they have and will carry all
the required race gear during the race.
Note:
This list is subject to change and/or updating prior to the
race.
Personal
Mandatory Full-time Gear - per racer
(for each team member to carry at all times)
- Headlamp and extra batteries (can also serve as flashlight)
- Lifejacket (Coast Guard approved) - N.B. teams will be
advised in pre-race briefing if there are any sections of
the course where they are not required to have their lifejackets
- Whistle
- Knife with minimum 2" locking blade
- Lighter & matches
- Mirror
- Emergency blanket
- 2 litre water capacity (minimum)
- Race number jersey (to be supplied by ARC)
Personal
Mandatory Bike Gear (for each team member to
have at all times during the biking sections)
- Mountain Bike
- Spare tube
- Bike helmet
- Biking Gloves
- 1 white front light and batteries (suitable for overnight
use)
- 1 red rear light and batteries (suitable for overnight
use)
Team
Mandatory Bike Gear (for each team to have at all
times during the biking sections)
- Air pump (must fit whatever types of valves used by all
team members)
- Chain repair tool
- Tube patch kit
- Tire levers
- Set of Allen wrenches
- At least 2 bike computers per team
Personal
Mandatory Climbing / Rappelling Gear (for each team
member to have at all times during the rope sections)
Note:
While we do not require that participants have rope certification
for the Overnight Races, it is highly recommened, as it makes
this component of the race more enjoyable and hopefully easier
to complete. For more rope certification, please Click
Here.
- Climbing Helmet (to be supplied by ARC - Note that bike
helmets are not acceptable)
- Climbing harness - all harnesses must be CE or ULC/NFPA
approved
- Two (2) Locking CE or NFPA approved Caribeners
- Rappel device ATC or figure 8, compatible with 7/16
static rope
- Prusik
- Gloves (leather palm and/or half fingers)
Team
Mandatory Water Gear
(for each team to have at all times during the water
sections)
- Canoes, kayaks or rafts to be SUPPLIED by ARC
- 1 throw rope per canoe (i.e. 2 per team) will be SUPPLIED
by ARC, but teams must make sure they pick-up their throw
rope at the canoe put-in and return it at the canoe take-out
- 4 paddles will be SUPPLIED by ARC you may bring your
own paddles but you may be required to transport them to
and/or from the canoes
Team
Mandatory Full-time Gear (for each team to carry at
all times during the race)
- Waterproof Map Bag (double bagging recommended)
- 2 Compasses
- 2 Safety Flares (must be able to fire them overhead -
use subject to Forestry regulations)
- Six (6) Glow sticks
- Bug Spray
- Safety Radio (supplied by ARC)
Team First Aid Kit (one kit per team)
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- 2 - rolls of gauze
- 1 - roll adhesive tape
- 2 - Tensor Bandages
- Tweezers
- Scissors
- 4 - anti-bacterial towlettes
- Anti-bacterial ointment
- 4 electrolyte replacement (eg. Gastrolyte available
at pharmacy)
- Water purification tablets (enough for 50 litres)
- 1 Triangle bandage
- Moleskin or other type of blister protection
- 12 antihistamine tablets
- 20 Advil or other anti-inflamatory / pain killers
- Regular bandages (eg. Band-aids for minor cuts/abrasions)
Prohibited
Equipment
The
following equipment is prohibited from use prior to and during
the race:
- Any GPS device
- Any mode of
transportation not authorized by the race event organizers
- Any maps other
then those provided by the race event organizers
- Cell phones,
Pagers, Pace meters, Walkie Talkies, Radios or any electronic
device
Note:
This list is not an exhaustive list and ARC reserves the right
to disallow the use of any item or equipment that might prove
an unfair advantage to any team and/or disqualify any team
that use illegal equipment during the race.
Support
Crew
Teams
are welcome and advised to use a Support Crew (max. 2) to
help transport equipment and supplies (i.e.
Bikes, Food & Gear) to and from various transition
locations and Home base. Support crew should have a 4x4 vehicle
as some roads are quite rough. Support Crews will only be
allowed to provide support at locations designated by ARC
race management.
ARC will support Teams that have Support
Crews by providing T-shirts and a post race meal.
For
Teams without support crews, ARC will provide soft support,
ARC will transport equipment and supplies on their behalf,
and provide some food and drink at transition locations. Teams
must have all their gear in clearly marked bins (i.e. team
number), with lids on them. Bins will not be transported between
Transition locations, so equipment must be allocated appropriately
in advance of the race start. And note that should your team
finish early or drop out of the race, we may not be able to
recover your bikes or gear bins until the end of the race.
Teams
must advise ARC as to weather they will have a Support Crew
or not, at least one week before the start of the race.
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