Team Trophy Challenge Washington Oct 2008

Team Trophy Challenge Washington (TTCW) is based on a similar event held in Oregon and in which several of the club members has previously participated. This event challenges participants to navigate a course using a tulip map and then along the way perform several tasks. In another stage of the competition the participants are challenged to navigate a course and find markers in specific locations which are hidden. It is a tough competition but everyone has a lot of fun participating and the Tamers have a lot of fun volunteering to help put the event on.

This year the location for the event was changed to the Liberty area in an effort to keep things fresh for the repeat participants. A few of the volunteers arrived a couple days before the event in order to set everything up for the competition. The weather was a little cool as it usually is in early October and there was a little rain the week before that was keeping the dust down. This was not the case the night before the event. As we all went to sleep anticipating an early rise the next day for the event the skies opened up and it rained hard for about an hour. The next morning things were a little slick but manageable. In the afternoon though the weather became a factor and it rained so hard that that people actually pulled off to the side of roads and trails to wait it out. In the higher elevations later in the afternoon it started to snow.

Things were interesting and we all had a lot of fun. The stories from this TTCW are going to be told for years to come. Thank you to all of the volunteers and competitors that made this event what it was.