10th Anniversary
The ARC-family welcomed all this year’s new members at a big information meeting at the Hotel Sisimiut last night. Close to 100 skiers met up over crisps and drinks in the hotel restaurant for a cosy chat, and board members Elisabeth Ringsted and Laust Løgstrup took the skiers through the basics. Again this year the ACR-family has had to work hard on making the tracks, and for the 4th time in a row in the history of ACR the tracks had to be relocated. The volunteers are close to being experts at inventing new plans and finding new tracks.

Info metting

Safety on the Tracks
A murmur went through the crowd in the hotel restaurant when Killer Hill was mentioned. In fact the tracks do not go down Killer Hill this year, but that does not make the race a walk in the park. “The tracks are very hard and very icy,” Elisabeth Ringsted and Laust Løgstrup informed the skiers, and they strongly advised the skiers to take off their skies at certain places. Finally the board members stressed the importance of the skiers going to the mandatory safety meeting on Thursday 30th – and the safety meeting is for all: newcomers as well as veterans. Be there!

Newcomers and Veterans
Of the 150 skiers many are first timers, but two skiers have in fact participated in ACR since the very beginning in 1997. We’ll definitely try to trace them down during the race so that they can give the readers their personal backside story of ACR.

Greenlandic Championships in Dog sledging
On the second day of the race, Saturday 1st of April, 46 dog sledges will rush by the camp. The Greenlandic Championships in dog sledging starts from Sisimiut at 10 a.m. and the track goes close by the camp, down Killer Hill, back up again and all the way back to Sisimiut. To avoid colliding with the sledge dogs the start of ARC is postponed until 1 p.m.
Elisabeth Ringsted and Laust Løgstrup stressed that the skiers are not to take a walk on the tracks on Saturday morning, as nobody wants skiers and dogs on the same tracks at the same time. The volunteers at the camp will instruct the skiers in where to position themselves so that they get a good and safe view to the dogs sledges.

1 Doctor for Every 5th Skier
27 doctors are gathered at an arctic medicine conference right now, and naturally they are going to assist the skiers in how to stay clear of injuries.
Wednesday 29th 2 of the doctors are going to give a lecture on preventing measures and strain treatment at 5 p.m. at the Building and Construction School. A bus will be leaving from the Race Office at 16.45 to take the skiers to the lecture.
On Monday 3rd of April after the race the doctors will give a workshop on treatment of injuries occurred during the race. However, let’s keep our fingers crossed that this workshop will not receive many real patients.


Camp

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