10 a.m., Sunday July 22

Alpine Falls take-out

 

Everyone needs to bring their own stop watch. You will be relying on your own watches and your own honesty to record an accurate time. Based on this, I thought up two options for the race format.

 

The format options are:

1.) Part one of 1.) Time trial, from Box Drop to the eddy at the bottom of Witch's Brew (the last rapid). Time yourselves. Then, immediately write your time on a notecard. Hand your note card to the race organizer. All the cards are assembled and ordered chronologically, then announced. If anyone is suspicious of somebody else's time, he can call him out and demand a one-on-one, head-to-head race to challenge his position. If the challenger beats the challenged, he takes his spot. So, the last place finisher could challenge the first place finisher, win, and take first place. If multiple people challenge, the priority goes to the highest placing finisher.

 

Or:

 

2.) Basically a mass-start from Box Drop, except of course, you'd go one-by-one with a second or two delay. We all have one hour to get as many laps in as possible. Partial laps count. So when the clock strikes 60, note how many laps and where you are on the river. So when you report, you'd say: "Fifth lap, Stairway." Or "Fifth lap, Godzilla."

I like this option because it seems like a safer way of doing a mass start without a lot of the dangers associated with it. However, it does have a significant challenge: Shuttle.

 

Which do you prefer?

 

CK