Race Results
This year's Frigid Infliction was a terrific event. Snow conditions on course were even better than last year, with a foot of fresh powder on top of four feet from the recent blizzard. The weather was perfect - warming past 30 degrees as the day went on with little wind.

When the starting whistle blew at 5:18am, racers postholed (no snowshoes) to one of two checkpoints, then up to the first TA at Bryant cabin. From there, snowshoeing to several CPs in any order took them to some of the most beautiful views in the area, then back down to the TA and instructions to find their skis.

After putting on their skis, the teams travelled to several points, some more brutal than others, before reaching manned CP12 and a water refill. 9 of 24 teams made the cutoff to cross to the east side of Joiner Brook and struggled up several reentrants to discover CPs 13 and 14 before rejoining everyone else at the tyrolean traverse. Each team then pulled themselves across ropes stretched 50 feet above the frozen ravine before snowshoeing for the finish line.

After racers took advantage of the showers, hottub, terrific pasta meal (tomato pesto bisque... yum!), lots of story-telling, and had massages, the winners were announced. Team ARFE Smartwool crossed the line first at 9hrs 37min, taking the 2 person coed division. Team Berlin Bike took first in the 3 person coed division at 10hrs, 11min. See below for the full results.

It was great to have had so many teams come to race with us. To have such a wide range of experience and still have everyone leave with a big grin is the best reward any of us could hope for. Thanks as always to all of our sponsors, and our volunteers, without whom this race could never have happened. We hope to see everyone August 4th for The Bitter Pill - until then, race on!

-Tim Curtin, Race Director, and the GMARA gang

Results are located here: http://www.gmara.org/frigid/results07_chart.html

Photos can be found here: http://gmara.smugmug.com
(If you have any photos taken during the race, please send them to photos at gmara.org - we'll put them in the racer-submitted gallery and include any notes you'd like with each.)

Team listing: http://www.gmara.org/frigid/teams07.shtml

Blogs about the race:

• ARFE Smartwool: http://blog.arfe.org
  
• Runs With Scissors: http://teamrunswithscissors.blogspot.com/

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