Team Raid International Gaspésie/x:act NUTRITION takes on the CNYO Snowgaine

On Friday March 7th, James, Nathalie, and John left Ottawa to meet Harper in Berne, NY, just outside of Albany, for the Central New York Orienteering Club's annual Snowgaine. The Snowgaine is a 2-day orienteering-style "rogaine" (meaning you try to get as many checkpoints as you can in any order in a specified amount of time) that allows the option of travel by foot, snowshoe, skis, bikes, or any other human powered mode of transportation. The rule though is that you have to keep whatever gear you take with you at ALL times (so you would need to bring your bike with you to go get a checkpoint that is in the woods). Since we are a running team, we chose not to bring our bikes with us to the race. As some members of our team had managed to clear the course for the last couple of years on foot with plenty of time to spare, we expected to be able to clear this course in the same way. But it seems the race director had other plans for us...