2006 - The fifth and sixth days of racing meant little sleep for those at HQ. After a dramatic night on the final ropes section, Team Nike/PowerBlast won a tight race, crossing the finish line less than 22 minutes ahead of second place GoLite/Timberland.

Meanwhile, the race for many continued. Twelve hours after Nike finished, Backpacker Magazine editor, Jon Dorn and Team Bulleit, were hanging out in Moab waiting for the “dark zone” to clear. Listen to his podcast!

While the exact location of the race must remain a secret until the fall of 2007, several states are currently running neck and neck. If you do not have firm summer vacation plans, you may wish to visit places like (in no particular order of significance other than it is an alphabetical list) Arizona, Colorado, Idaho, Montana, or Nevada.

Participants can expect as epic a race as Utah and exposure to totally different environments. They will race for five to ten days over 400 – 600 miles of gnarly terrain. In addition to the classic elements of AR: mountain biking, trekking, and paddling, next year racers will face extraordinary sections of whitewater swimming and mountaineering.

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2006: Day three of the race meant more desert heat, but also a chance for many teams to get on the water in either the white water swim leg or another paddle.

Were you racing last year?  Were you a volunteer?  Leave a comment and tell us about your race memories!

Relive the adventure over at Yahoo! News… Primal Quest: The heated race continues

2006: We were one full day into the race and the scorching hot Utah landscape (and water) were big concerns for racers and PQ staff.

Relive the adventure over at Yahoo! News… Primal Quest: Water connections

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE / 26.June.2007
Contact: Chris Caul
540.969.9357

info@ecoprimalquest.com

While the location of next year’s Primal Quest Expedition Adventure Race is still a secret, we are happy to announce the 2008 race dates.

Between June 21 and July 2, 2008* seventy-five co-ed teams of racers will take part in the World’s Most Challenging Human Endurance Competition.

Primal Quest is an environmentally friendly, ecologically aware wilderness Expedition Adventure Race®. Teams of experienced back country adventure athletes journey across expansive terrain using only a map, a compass and combined skills. Successfully finishing requires much more than stamina and mental fortitude. It requires selfless teamwork, spirit and absolute determination.

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Primal Quest has been called the Crown Jewel of Adventure Racing, living up to this name in both quality of race and financial expenditure. Recent decisions by Bill and Denise Watkins (founders of PQ) and Don Mann and Dawn Taylor-Mann (Director and Chief Operations Officer of PQ) will give this legendary race an opportunity to continue its billing as the greatest adventure race as well as change the financial structure so that it may remain viable in 2008 and beyond.

Primal Quest:
Primal, adj, first, original, primitive, first in importance: fundamental;
Quest, n, search, pursuit, a chivalrous enterprise in medieval romance usually involving an adventurous journey.

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2006: Primal Quest Utah began exactly one year ago on an early Sunday morning!

Relive the adventure over at Yahoo! news… Primal Quest: The desert at dawn.

Intrepid reporter Stephen Regenold has an interview with PQ Director Don Mann about PQ2008 on The Gear Junkie site!

The news is out on Primal Quest 2008. I.e., it’s going to take place. But the information on Primal Quest’s web site is a bit vague, and as an intrepid journalist—as well as a racer in the 2006 event—I wanted more. Thus I went to the source, Mr. Don Mann, the new Director of the PQ for this exclusive interview. . .

Read the interview today!