Monday, May 29, 2006

Coast to Coast Leg 2

Transition to Bikes at TA 1
Maps: Bike Maze Road Map (receive at TA1), TA1 to Bike Drop 1:50K, Withlacoochee Citrus Tract 1:24K

Check out of TA before proceeding on bike leg (1 hour penalty for not checking out). Cross US19 only at Maze entrance UTM 347113 3185650, travel in grass only is permitted along US19, no travel on Grover Cleveland and Lecanto/491 (4 hour Penalty)

Bike Maze and punch Maze Points (MP’s):
MP1 UTM 350258 3186615
MP2 UTM 351950 3186419
MP3 UTM 353516 3185232
MP4 UTM 355657 3185606
After MP4, proceed on the dirt trail North of W. Noble St. to Lecanto Rd and proceed to Bike Drop at UTM 358491 3185862 (no control point at this location)
Drop bikes and transition to Trek. No interaction with crews at this location is permitted.

Trek to:
From bike drop take old Jeep Trail East to Florida Trail UTM 358828 3185621 and proceed South on foot trail. No Bushwhacking is permitted within the Citrus Tract.

1-CP2 UTM 361824 3178594
1-CP3 UTM 359340 3176622
Cross 480 (do not travel along 480 on foot, penalty for travel along 480 is 4 hours)
1-CP4 UTM 362377 3175211
Proceed South to gate at UTM 362320 3174230, proceed to FR26 at UTM 360656 3173050, and on to TA2 at UTM 361831 3172801). Check in at TA2.


The supplied map does not contain the entire bike maze, but you can get the idea from the left hand side. The roads in the maze are a mixture of paved and dirt - though we pretty much made sure teams had to go on the dirt roads. It took most teams about 3-4 hours to complete the bike maze and get to the bike drop. At the bike drop teams left their bikes and headed out on foot through a few CP's to TA2. This section caused a lot of teams heartburn as they had a difficult time finding CP3 which was in a cave.

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