AMATOR: COURSE
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Special tasks - details
The Amator course: The race route is marked by checkpoints (CP) on the tourist map. The competitors has to show up at the CPs according to their sequence, between the CPs the teams are free to free to choose the route.
Map: Special tourist map (1:50000), containing excerpts from maps of Wydawnictwo Kartograficzne COMPASS:
- Tatry i Podhale
- Beskid Sądecki
- Gorce
Honorary start – Zakopane center, at 10 am. The MASTERS route is about 220 km, devides in to few stages:
Amator - 220 km:
-Etap 1 - Orienteering - 4 km
-Etap 2 - Highmountain Trekking - 29 km,
Transition Area 1
-Etap 3 - MTB - 80 km,
Transition Area 2
-Etap 4 - Kayak (on the lake)- 15 km,
Transition Area 2
-Etap 6 - Trekking - 42 km,
Transition Area 2
-Etap 7 - MTB - 50 km
Additionally, all participants of the race are obliged to execute special events, such as:
-climbing (difficulty level : III - IV in the UIAA standards)
-crossing over the rope bridge
-rope descendence and ascendence
-rope events with bikes
-passage a river
Route schema, the expected scheme of of the best team's itinary.
Route profiles
Etap I i II
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Etap III
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Etap IV, V
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Etap VI
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Amator special tasks - details
Task 1: - at the end of stage 2. "Rope Park" - prepared by FUNTOUR
It consists of four tasks:
1 - Burmese bridge
The competitor has to cross between two stands using two ropes connected
with slings
2 - Rope traverse on the pulley
The competitor has to cross between two trees on the horizontal steel rope
using sling and the pulley.
3 - The rope bridge
The competitor has to cross between two stands using two ropes, upper and
lower.
4 -Tyrolean traverse
The competitor descends by the angled rope using the sling.
The team shows up at the start point and performs all task one by one.
Task 2 - stage 3.
Team has to cross the rope bridge between the quarry walls and climb a III grade (UIAA scale) route. Two of the team cross the bridge and another two climb.
Equipment:
- rope bridge: harness, helmet, sling and locking carabinier
- climbing: harness, helmet
Task 3: rope bridge – tyrolean traverse (60 m) - stage 5
Team has to cross the the rope bridge above the river
Equipment:
- harness, helmet, sling, 2 locking carabiniers
- recommended equpiment to cope with rope bridges: acscending device (shunt, poignee, crol, basic)
Task 4: rope bridge – tyrolean traverse (130 m) - stage 5
Team has to cross the the rope bridge above the river
Equipment:
- harness, helmet, sling, 2 locking carabiniers
- recommended equpiment to cope with rope bridges: acscending device (shunt, poignee, crol, basic)
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