Battle of the Bighorn

Guide Draft

• Not all guides are created equal, or at least our guides think so! Your guide can make all the difference for your team. Guides will introduce themselves providing a brief bio and teams will be able to select their guide in a playground style draft before we head to the river. We will draw straws to see which team is able to choose first or you can opt to bid on your guide with all proceeds going to the charity of your choice.

Salt Lick – The starting point for Battle of the Bighorn!

• BUCKET TOSS – The first team to toss a rock into a bucket will win a sixty second head start on the race. The second place team in the rock toss will get a six inch barrel pump versus the standard four inch pump other teams will be using to inflate their rafts.
• PUZZLE MEMORY – Teams will be shown the answer to a three dimensional puzzle which they will have to solve at the end of the race.
• START PUMPING – Teams must inflate their raft. Don’t be fooled; this is an exhausting exercise!
• HEAVY RUBBER – Teams carry their raft a distance of roughly one hundred yards to the river. The race is on!

Five Points Rapid

• WATERMELON DROP – Teams must retrieve a watermelon thrown from the Five Points overlook and carry it all the way to the finish line.

Spikebuck

• WATER SHUTTLE – Two members of each team will disembark from the raft, fill their team bucket with water from the river and carry it through the parking area and down to the next beach. They must also carry their team’s watermelon and rejoin their boat on the second beach.  The bucket needs to remain filled to the minimum line at the second beach to successfully complete the challenge.

Harvey’s Eddy

• BRAIN FREEZE – Each member of your team must eat a popsicle as fast as possible, and all popsicles must be eaten before the boat can leave the beach. Popsicle sticks must be turned in to the judges for verification of completion. This is considered to be one of the most “uncomfortable” challenges in Battle of the Bighorn!

Harvey’s Bridge

• T-PADDLE – The finish line is finally in sight but we are not done making it challenging. Teams must turn their paddles over and are only allowed to use the T-grip portion as they paddle to the beach. This removes about 97% of the paddle power for the final sprint.

Echo Canyon Beach

• HELMET BRIGADE – Boaters must use their helmets to fill their team’s bucket to the top with water from the river. Sounds easy enough until you realize our helmets are vented with large holes! This is considered to be one of the funniest challenges in the event.
• RUNNING ON EMPTY – At least one team member must run a quarter mile loop at the Echo Canyon beach while carrying their team’s watermelon and bucket.
• MEMORY PUZZLE – Teams will be provided with a bag of three dimensional puzzle pieces which must be reassembled at this time. All team members, the completed puzzle, watermelon and bucket must make it into the finish circle at which point the team’s finish time will be documented.