F.A.Q.

ANSWER: To be sure, this is key to your team’s success! It is difficult to predict with accuracy how long it will take your teammates to complete the stages ahead of your start. Each team can come up with their own solution but a suggestion is to have teammates phone in when they finish their stage. They can call a Team Manager, who will coordinate with each remaining member, or directly notify the person that is to start several stages following. Remember to allow for travel time and set up time.

Teams are responsible for their own canoe, paddles, life jackets or personal floatation devices (PFDs), and mandatory safety kits. Rentals: The Complete Paddler. (Toronto) 919 Oxford St. 416.255.6905 Pick up would have to be before 7pm on the Friday as they dont open until 10 on the Saturday of the race. The Complete Paddler offers canoe rentals year-round and includes all safety and paddling equipment required by law plus all car tie downs at no extra cost. or if you are staying at Golden Beach Resort at Rice Lake 905.342.5366

Racers must use a "standard non-racing style canoe, lake-worthy for possible wavy conditions, with single blade canoe paddles." No kayaks or kayak paddles are allowed. A Canadian-government approved personal floatation device (PFD) of appropriate size is mandatory. Remember to put your phone and any other valuables in a waterproof sack, after all this an Adventure Relay

Boat safety kit must include: a bailer, whistle or a horn and rope. If you are bringing your cell phone please remember to put your phone and any other valuables in a waterproof floatable sack.

ANSWER: Transportation to and from checkpoints is the responsibility of each team. You should arrange in advance for a ride from a teammate.

ANSWER: We don't recommend leaving anything unattended. Your belongings are your responsibility. Arrange with a teammate to take care of your belongings.

ANSWER: Event Officials will be patrolling the course. First-aid kits as well as emergency supplies of food and beverages will be available at Checkpoints. As a precaution, you must carry a whistle and are encouraged to carry a cell phone in the unlikely chance that you are alone on the course. An emergency phone number will be printed on the maps issued to you at the start of your stage.

ANSWER: Each stage has been assigned a Default Start Time and a Did Not Finish penalty. When the Default Start Time has been reached, all remaining people waiting to begin their stage will be instructed to depart. See General Rules for details. NEW for 2019 is When a teammate Does Not Finish a penalty of 10 minutes is added to the slowest time recorded that day for that leg/stage.

ANSWER: Several precautions are in place for night stages. All participants on the course MUST provide and display a flashing red light (facing rearwards) and a bright navigation light facing forwards. It is strongly recommended that cyclists also use a bar-mounted headlight. Participants may be ACCOMPANIED by another person (team member or not) who has completed a waiver and checked in as an escort at the stage start.

ANSWER: Yes, you can get lost if you do not closely follow your maps or learn how the trail is marked. Please review the instructional videos and course maps. Ideally, visit the area and hike or bike your section a few days before the relay. If you do get lost, call the emergency number on your maps and a course official will guide you back on to the trail or have someone pick you up.

First thing that happens when a team finishes is that there is a lot of cheering and congratulations to go around. ORTA provides a designated photographer to take your team group photo (or we can take it later if the rest of your team hasn't made it there yet) It is nice to get that group photo to mark the occasion. There is an award ceremony at the Finish at the Log Cabin, Seneca College. Usually around 8:30 or 9pm. There is a large parking lot and picnic tables, some food, drinks, fruit and munchies are provided.