It’s been another exciting day in Primal Quest Montana presented by SPOT, with the action continuing to be fast and furious. Here are a few notes from the field today:

- The big news of the day has been the Gallatin River, which continues to run very fast following the recent snow melt. In fact, the river continued to rise this afternoon, and has forced race management to pull teams off the river for their own safety. Teams that raced down the river earlier in the day were challenged, but were able to make the run successfully, but current teams are facing different conditions, and have now been pulled off the water completely. Those teams will next be shuttled to TA4 where they will resume the race on the trekking stage. 

- Speaking of the river, a number of teams that managed to run the riverboarding section before the closure of the river emerged from the water with the early signs of hypothermia. Fortunately, TA4 was also a medical check station, and the crack PQ medical staff checked each competitor as they checked in, and no one was allowed to proceed until they had properly warmed up. None of the teams suffered any serious issues, and all were back on the trail in short order.

- How cold was it this morning? Cold enough that the riverboards had ice on them BEFORE they went in the water. 

- Earlier in the day it was posted that Team 77 Racing With Giants were proceeding with the race as an unranked team following the withdrawal of one of the members due to an injury. Later the team elected to pull themselves from the race completely and they are all now off the course and resting comfortably. 

- Word from the course is that Nike and Team PeakAdventure.com are humming along quite nicely at the front of the pack, enjoying the race, and the course so far. Team Merrell/Zanfel Adventure is keeping pace, but is said to be limping along at the moment. Perhaps they’ll get one of their famous second winds and settle back in as well. 

Photo by Jason Perreira

This entry was posted on Tuesday, June 24th, 2008 at 4:33 pm and is filed under Primal Quest. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. Responses are currently closed, but you can trackback from your own site.