Registration:
Mail entries to: 4 Crown Quest, Box 427, Atlin B.C.
Make cheques payable to Atlin Ski Club.
Deadline: August 19, 2005 to qualify for entry fee of $ 45.
All registrations must arrive in Atlin no later than August 19th!
Entry fee after August 20 is $55 if event is not full.
If younger than 17 years, the participant must be accompanied by a parent.
The
fee includes the evening salmon-BBQ at Cracker Creek Camp.
You bring your own breakfast.
The fee for the closing banquet dinner is $15.
Schedule of Programs:
Saturday
August 27: Start at 11 am. at the Atlin Inn. Prior to the start
there will be a 20 minute meeting to share information you must have before
you bike, run and paddle the route.
Prior to this meeting you must have dropped off your personal camping
gear, kayak or canoe at the Surprise Lake boat landing (marked "BL"
on the map).
You bike up the Surprise Lake Road to the Surprise Lake boat landing
( 20 km. on a gravel road with about 250m of ascent). Here you leave your
bike in a secure area and boat 20 km. along the Surprise Lake shore to the
Cracker Creek Campsite. Here you will find your camping gear, transported
here by the organizers.
Sunday August 28: Starting at 8:30 am you run back to the
Surprise Lake landing site along old gravel mining roads to pick up your
bike again and coast back down to the finish line in front of the Atlin
Inn, where everyone should be finished by about 12 -3 pm. Your boat will
be transported back to this Surprise Lake landing site for you to be picked
up after you finish the event.
The Closing banquet will be held at 4:00 pm. on the historic M.V. Tarahne.
We supply and prepare:
+++a
map of the 80km. route with checkpoints and the campsite indicated. Bib
and maps to be picked up at the start at the Atlin Inn one hour before the
start.
+++Distance markers at every 5 km. on the running route.
+++Five aid stations with water, sports drinks and a person
with a First Aid Field Kit.
+++An overnight camp area with many sheltered campsites
to set up your own tent; also a communal wall tent, a big covered cooking
area in case of rain and firewood for an open campfire with grill, a person
with a First Aid a Field Kit, and toilets.
+++Shuttle service for each participant's camping gear,
kayak or canoe to the overnight campsite. Please limit your campgear
- but do bring your own tent, groundsheet, extra clothing, camp
stove with fuel, food cutlery and plates, bowls, matches and flashlight
in a single bag. And a whistle for the running section.
+++On arrival at Cracker Creek you will be greeted with
hot and cold water, sports drink, tea or coffee, cocoa or a cup of soup,
followed later by the Salmon BBQ.
+++ Motorboats to accompany kayaks and canoes on the 20
km. paddling section.
The 4-Crown Quest is all about participation and fun. Bring your spirit, all the energy you can dig up and your camera, as the landscape is awe-inspiring.
Bring
the whole family!
For parents with children, Atlin Quests can offer accomodation for 16 people
at the Atlin Art Centre, provided at least one parents participates in the
event. If both parents participate a care person must be provided to stay
with the children.
The Atlin Art Centre is a wonderful playground for children. Painting studio,
a pond with a canoe and three hiking trails which start from the Centre. There
are selfcontained living units with all utilities, telephone etc.
During the 4 Crown Quest, the reduced fee for one night is $20 per person.
You can stay for 2 nights. Register early. For information call toll free:
1-800-651-8882.
Participants must bring: Life jacket and, for the running section, basic first aid kit, trial food & water bottle, sun cream, mosquito repellant, bear spray and a whistle. The running section reaches an altitude of 1400m. Bring a wind jacket & pants in case of cool weather. Bib and map pick up starts 1 hour before the starting time at the Atlin Inn.
Volunteers! If you cannot participate, please consider volunteering. If you volunteer, we can offer you free accomodation at the Atlin Art Centre plus half the gas costs for your trip to Atlin plus a free mealticket to the Awards dinner. United we can achieve whatever our imagination inspires! For volunteering, please call toll free: 1-800-651-8882.
A
thank you to our early Sponsors.
This event wouldn't be possible without their generous
support:
Coast Mountain Sports, Atlin Realty, Pine Tree
Services, Brewery Bay Chalet, Society for Atlin's Sustainable Economic Initiatives,
Sidka Tours-Glacier View Cabins, The Northern Place, Atlin Air Charters, Atlin
Log Home Construction .
Gifts and prizes donated by:
Kanoe People, Home hardware, Yukon News, Food Basket, Icycle Sport, Simply
Gold, Whitehorse Beverages, Food Fair, Total North, Bob Giesbrecht and the
Atlin Inn offers discounted prices for participants and their families.
A very special thank you for the dedicated work of our Atlin and Whitehorse volunteers.
For
information on the event, phone 250-651-2480 or email: info@atlinskiclub.org
For reservation of kayaks, canoes and accomodation in town phone evenings
toll-free: 1-250-651-7691
Click here for the Four Crown Quest 2004 Registration Form
Back to Four Crown Quest Introductory page
"The Prospector" write-up about the 2002 event.
last updated July 17, 2005
website by Hein de Vries