42 competitors, 70 volunteers, 21 packable performance kayaks, 3 days of challenges and a ton of fun. The goals for the Amazing Race in Banff where simple: Raise money for the Banff Mineral Springs Hospital, attract visitors to Banff, increase community involvement, and educated participants on Banff National park history and promote environmental awareness, a success on all fronts.
Beautiful Two Jack Lake outside of Banff was the perfect place for the TRAKing challenge. What was required during the TRAKing challenge you ask? Simple, assemble your teams kayak as quickly as possible, then 1 team member paddles out and around a marked canoe and back to shore, then the first team member hops out and the other partner jumps in the kayak and paddles back out to the canoe to receive their poker chip for the next event, then both team members disassemble the kayak and get moving to the next challenge!
All in all assembly went great. When the first teams showed up at about 8:15am it was fast and furious and it did not stop until the final team came through at around 9:45am. It is a pretty awesome sight to see 20 plus kayaks all at different stages of getting assembled, disassembled, paddled and packed.
Surprisingly for as many people who said they had never kayaked before the skill level seemed to be pretty high, there was some pretty great kayaking going on.
Having the opportunity to expose a bunch of people to kayaking for the first time is really a special thing that never gets old. Everyone involved with the TRAKing event had a great time helping out and we hope that our kayaks helped make the event a lot of fun. A special congratulation to the winning team: Elise & Boris Vajsabel from Edmonton.
Beautiful Two Jack Lake outside of Banff was the perfect place for the TRAKing challenge. What was required during the TRAKing challenge you ask? Simple, assemble your teams kayak as quickly as possible, then 1 team member paddles out and around a marked canoe and back to shore, then the first team member hops out and the other partner jumps in the kayak and paddles back out to the canoe to receive their poker chip for the next event, then both team members disassemble the kayak and get moving to the next challenge!
All in all assembly went great. When the first teams showed up at about 8:15am it was fast and furious and it did not stop until the final team came through at around 9:45am. It is a pretty awesome sight to see 20 plus kayaks all at different stages of getting assembled, disassembled, paddled and packed.
Surprisingly for as many people who said they had never kayaked before the skill level seemed to be pretty high, there was some pretty great kayaking going on.
Having the opportunity to expose a bunch of people to kayaking for the first time is really a special thing that never gets old. Everyone involved with the TRAKing event had a great time helping out and we hope that our kayaks helped make the event a lot of fun. A special congratulation to the winning team: Elise & Boris Vajsabel from Edmonton.
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