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DAY 2 - Mountain biking, mountain hiking and a bit of
glacier trekking

B1: N65.35.00
W037.40.05 Sømandsfjeldet
B2: N65.38.07 W037.42.72 Præstefjelde
B3: N65.36.47 W037.43.19 Pyramiden
B4 N65.36.67 W037.46.28 Col between 2 glaciers S of lake
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General description:
First we have the mountain bike venue followed by an
orienteering mountain hiking and glacier trekking
venue.
Specifics:
Our mountain bike venue is well proved, and even though
some have tried it before we do not think that this will
be unfair to those teams who haven’t tried it before.
It’s fully manned by officials who will direct you in a
figure of eight leading out of town to the N, over some
small hills and down the Flower valley back to town
where you make another loop completing the figure of
eight just at the Post Office. You’ll have to repeat the
route 5 times total - the last time cycling back to the
finish line where every one of your team has to cross
the finish line. Then you can change clothes/shoes and
pick up your glacier gear to start the hiking stage
directly from the tents behind the Museum.
You
can split your team into 2+2, letting the one 2 person
“team” summit B1 and the other summit B2, but the team
has to meet at B3 and you’re not allowed to proceed from
B3 before everyone in the team are together. From B3
you’ll have to cross a small glacier, and this requires
you to use the glacier gear (crampons, iceaxes, helmets,
harnesses, rope and prussiks) – this is a general rule:
travelling on glaciers requires full glacier gear.
Having checked in at B4 you’re now free to head back
home to the finish line at the museum.
Please observe that the terrain has lots of areas
without tracks - there are numerous possibilities to get
to the summits, most of them with a lot of loose scree,
some steep, and a few actually unsafe because of
inclination and loose rocks, so we expect you to be
considerate and careful for your own and others safety.
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