Every Memorial Day weekend, Poko-MacCready Camps hosts the Patch Sprint adventure race to raise funds for the Adirondack Scholarship Foundation, a non-profit organization that helps kids who otherwise might not be able to afford the tuition to go to summer camp. The course is a challenging 12.7 miles long passing over three mountains (Bare, Rattlesnake and Sugarloaf) and finishing on the top of a fourth (Pok-O-Moonshine). The record, accomplished on a slightly shorter course, is a little over two hours.
Need... Advil...!
SUNY New Paltz geology professor John Rayburn, a good friend from Camp days, races in the event each year while Andrew and I provide base support by handing off key items of equipment at various points along the course. The picture at right shows John receiving Advil and a bottle of his special hydration formula at about the half-way point of the race. Ouch. His time of 4:18:57 was good enough, however, to win his age division of which he was the only entrant.
Over all, the Patch Sprint was a great success, raising over $9,000 with full results yet to be reported.
