How do adventure racing legends Don Mann and Chris Caul find new ways to challenge themselves after years of training and experience? Well obviously if you can’t make the courses any bigger, you have to take other measures, as evidenced by the photos below. In this case, the plan was to make the bike smaller. No word as to which one of them got to “go first”.

 Team 54, Werewolves/MPGear.com continue to post in their excellent blog of the race, with good updates on the progress of their team and general information on the course. Yesterday they posted this video of two team members, Tom and Paul, getting rescued from an island on the Gallatin River when whitewater became a little too wild. The footage was shot with the Werewolves’ GoPro Hero 3 Camera.

Major props to PQ River Director Josh Galt for getting the Werewolves, and others, back to shore safe and sound. 

Fred Abaroa, host of the GoFar Podcast, interviews Team Tecnu Extreme/Esprit de Corp co-captains “Earring” Doug Judson and Charlie “Sherpa” Kharsa as the team prepares for Primal Quest in just a few weeks.

Both men talk about how they got started in the sport, the races they’ve competed in, and the team’s background in other sports. They talk about the team they’ve assembled that has vast amounts of experience, but have been racing together for less than a year. 

At the time of the taping of the podcast, there was just three weeks to go until PQ. The team is training well, and is focused on Montana, where they hope to make their mark and serve notice to the adventure racing community that they are team to watch.

To listen to the entire podcast click here or subscribe directly in iTunes. 

The GoFar Podcast continues it’s focus on Primal Quest this week with an excellent interview with Susanna Greever, the Volunteer Director for PQ.  Susanna talks at length about the logistics that go into organizing the incredible group of volunteers who play such an integral role in making Primal Quest a successful adventure race. This year we have more than 150 volunteers from 20+ countries donating their time to insure that the teams have an amazing experience in Montana. 

You can listen to the interview by clicking here or subscribe directly to the GoFar Podcast directly in iTunes.

 There has been a number of Primal Quest related episodes of the GoFAR Podcast of late covering a variety of topics PQ related.

First, we have an interview with Justin Wakefield of GoPro, a new partner for Primal Quest, who will be outfitting racers with their Hero Cameras for the 2008 race to capture an unprecedented amount of video and still images from the field. 

Teams interested in getting a sneak peek at Primal Quest Montana will want to check out this interview with Chris Caul, the 2008 PQ Course Designer. Chris discusses getting started in adventure racing, moving on to course design, and much more.

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Primal Quest Montana’s Course Director, Chris Caul, has been sending daily reports from the field to PQ World Headquarters and while we can’t divulge much, we can share with you this photograph and ask the following question:

Can you name these two World-Class Climbers?

Clue: They are the leaders of the Primal Quest – Montana Climbing Team

Leave your guesses in the comments!