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40 Mile Portage: Movies from the 2001 WaterTribe Okefenokee Challenge
One
of the main attractions of 2006 Ultimate
Florida Challenge will be a 40 mile highway portage between St Mary
River and Suwannee River. This long portage was included in two previous
WaterTribe Challenges: Okeefenokee 2001 and Cross Florida 2002. The road is
straight, 2 lane, flat, and paved with a good surface for biking or skating, but
has no shoulders to provide any safety. There is a heavy traffic of
logging tracks. You can find some pictures of
this road on the SandyBottom's website (shot by another WaterTriber, Pelican) .
Steve Isaac, Chief, was shooting videos from this portage during 2001 Okefenokee Challenge. These video clips are unedited and of poor quality but very informative. It is also worth to check reports from this race available in archives of WaterTribe Magazine. The links to the movies are burried deep in WaterTribe Discussion Forum and nearly impossible to find, so I've gathered them here together:
Verlen Kruger and Steve Landick were doing longer portages during their Ultimate Canoe Challenge through North America. The longest 66 mile portage was over the South Pass, WY along the Oregon Trail, the old pioneer route across the continental divide in the Rocky Mountains. They didn't use carts, they carried everything.
Steve Isaac, Chief, was shooting videos from this portage during 2001 Okefenokee Challenge. These video clips are unedited and of poor quality but very informative. It is also worth to check reports from this race available in archives of WaterTribe Magazine. The links to the movies are burried deep in WaterTribe Discussion Forum and nearly impossible to find, so I've gathered them here together:
- DevoMan (James DeVoglaer) skating and towing his X-treme canoe. Devo won the solo unlimited class in Texas Water Safari in the same boat earlier that year.
- Team Kruger (ManitouCruiser - Mark Przedwojewski - and Kopian - Jonathan Eggerich) towing Sea Wind canoes behind their mountain bikes. They carried regular size bikes in their canoes for the entire challenge.
- Team Short (2Brave - Tony Short and his father GreyFox - Paul Short). They were skating and towing two sea kayaks stacked together on one cart.
- Lafayette (Michael Barber) walking and towing a sea kayak
Verlen Kruger and Steve Landick were doing longer portages during their Ultimate Canoe Challenge through North America. The longest 66 mile portage was over the South Pass, WY along the Oregon Trail, the old pioneer route across the continental divide in the Rocky Mountains. They didn't use carts, they carried everything.