The Rimrocked Blog

So guess where I am?
Labrador City.
Guess what I’m doing?
http://www.rimrocked.com/cq
I’ll offer a personal view of what I see at Cain’s Quest Headquarters. After a smooth, milk-run flight from Montreal to Wabush via Quebec and Sept-Isles, I landed for the first time in Labrador . I found a friendly community caught up in race-fever. If the Labrador City folks aren’t volunteering, organizing or supporting the race, then they’re watching it, talking about it and immersed in it. For this race, rimrocked is the way that they’re experiencing the event that they’ve worked hard to show the world.

A record 28 Teams started the race this year and got off to a dramatic start. Team 21 fielded by the Boisverts, a father-son team, crashed into an errant villager who was unaware of the race start. A split helment, stiches and trashed snowmobile was the result. Fortunately the younger Boisvert wasn’t seriously hurt. A few hours later the snowmobile was rebuilt and the team was back in the race. We’re following the last 16 hours of the race to see how they do.

The race leaders have swapped spots repeatedly, ensuring a dramatic unpredictable race. It’s also been a race of attrition as in other years, engine breakdowns, busted tracks and general mechanical trouble have all conspired against the racers.

This is rimrocked’s first event, and Andrew and I have been working around to clock tweaking the experience, fielding feedback and for the first day fixing minor problems. The traffic experienced by this race have exceeded our expectations.  But coming to Labrador City and talking to people here involved in Cain’s Quest has really hit home how much being able to follow this event means to the snowmobiling community, not only here, but to fans of the race across the US and the world.

People from over 40 countries have connected to the Cain’s Quest Race at Rimrocked and we’ve gotten about a half a million page views in just under 4 days.
I’d encourage you to tune in to follow the exciting finish of the race.