SPOT and Primal Quest will be presenting at Outdoor Retailer.
Date: Friday, August 8, 2008 3:00 pm
Place: Paddle Lounge, Salt Palace, Salt Lake City, Utah, Outdoor Retailer Summer Show
After the presentation, come by our booth 188 & 190, in the main hallway outside the main hall.
We’ve had a lot of great feedback from fans of Primal Quest lately, but the best testimony comes from the Primal Quest Race Operations Director, Greg Vogel:
“Primal Quest Montana was a 10-day expedition-level adventure race, with 58 teams challenging each other and the Montana mountains over a 548 mile course. Try to imagine keeping track of 232 world-class athletes spread out over this course, and then reporting their progress to the world at any one time. PQ was fortunate to partner with SPOT for GPS tracking. Their motto is “Live to tell about it” – a fit motto for a partner in such a grueling race.
In addition to providing a safer race for the participants, the SPOT tracking services made it possible for race officials and spectators, as well as fans on the website, to follow the progress of the entire field moving through the race course. Their assistance in designing the Leaderboard and Tracking sections of our website gave us results that exceeded our expectations.
The team from SPOT provided outstanding service, and the quality of the product they delivered was far better than we could have imagined. The entire experience was a very good one for us, and we look forward to partnering with them again for next year’s race.”
In addition – Tim Soyars, Medical Director summed up how SPOT helped out his team during Primal Quest:
“SPOT takes the “Search” out of “Search and Rescue”. “
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SPOT will be at the Outdoor Retailer 2008 show in Salt Lake City this August. We’ll be both at the Pineview Reservior portion, showing off SPOT in its natural environment — outdoors– and at the main convention center, both in the SPOT booth and hosting the Kayak lounge. Hard to believe that it was only last year that we announced SPOT at Outdoor Retailer 2007. This year we will be holding a joint press conference with our friends at Primal Quest presented by SPOT adventure race to share our success at the 2008 race, and possibly make some great announcements about Primal Quest 2009.
Date: Friday, August 8, 2008 3:00 pm
Place: Paddle Lounge, Salt Palace, Salt Lake City, Utah, Outdoor Retailer Summer Show
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Tagged: Adventure Race, OR, Outdoor Retailer, primal quest, Salt Lake City
We just came back from an amazing couple of weeks at Primal Quest Montana 2008 Presented By SPOT. Over 240 racers traveled over 500 miles each in the world’s most challenging race. SPOT provided each team with a SPOT, and we developed custom race tracking software, based on SPOT Shared Pages, that let friends and family and fans follow the race at home. Check out http://www.ecoprimalquest.com to find out more.
Soon, we’ll be announcing the winner of the sweepstakes to win a SPOT singed by the winning team — Team Nike http://www.eliteadventureteam.com/
Also, see the great post written by our friend Wade Nelson over at his blog hardcoreoutdoor.com http://hardcoreoutdoor.com/2008/07/04/primal-quest-2008-montana.aspx
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Tagged: adventure racing, GPS, primal quest, SPOT, tracking
