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Through the Eyes – Geoff Rapoport, Night Orienteering

Geoff Rapoport competed in and finished the 2013, 2014, and 2015 Endeavor Team Challenge. He and teammate Jared Janowiak won the 2013 Endeavor Team Challenge. How would you describe Night Orienteering? Night orienteering is the stage that separates those who have come to compete from those who have come to complete. Until this point, you’ve been able to choose to go faster or slower, but you haven’t had the opportunity to choose how much you want

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Remembering Fallen Soldiers

Memorial Day is a time to remember the heroes we have lost.  Traditionally this means those who died while serving in this country’s armed forces. These fallen men and women deserve our thoughts and appreciation for the sacrifice they have made. At Endeavor, today we are thinking of a hero of ours who passed away last year, Dave Edney.  Dave served his country.  He spent 10 years in the Coast Guard before moving up to

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Through the Eyes – Jaala Thibault, Night Orienteering

Jaala Thibault competed in and finished the 2013 and 2015 Endeavor Team Challenge. How would you describe Night Orienteering? In 2015, there were a couple of large forest fires burning within 100 miles of Bear Valley, and the night of ETC there was a new moon. There was zero illumination and it was quite dry out in the forest, so with the light of our headlamps refracting off of dust particles kicked up from our

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Answer the Call

It takes a special kind of person to compete in the Endeavor Team Challenge. This is not a casual race to be completed in an afternoon, and we don’t call it a monumental fitness challenge for nothing. The ETC is more than a race. It’s validation that you and a teammate can surmount challenges out in the wilderness requiring self-reliance, physical resilience and psychological fortitude. It taps into the inner primal instinct that has been

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2017 Registration Information

This post will aim to answer any questions you have about registering for the 2017 Endeavor Team Challenge. How it works: Registration opens on Monday, March 6 at 7AM Pacific. At this time, you’ll be able to select your pricing tier and go through a series of pages where you’ll input information about yourself. You’ll need to carefully read and agree to the terms of competing in the Endeavor Team Challenge. Endeavor branded apparel and

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Introducing Ourselves: Our Endeavor

Our endeavor began on January 28, 2015 in an act of equal parts spontaneity and bold recklessness. While Beau thought he was casually sharing an exciting event that had come across his newsfeed, Gregg decided to act on a whim and figure out the finer details later. Within an hour of that first mention of ETC, Gregg had signed up not only for himself, but also for Beau, ensuring that the only way out was

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Endeavor Lives On!

We are excited to announce that the Endeavor Team Challenge will return in 2017. Nearly a year ago, Greg, Mark, and I decided to not host a 2016 Endeavor Team Challenge.  Life got in the way, and our small team lacked the bandwidth needed to deliver the next iteration of the event. Over the course of the year we talked to several former competitors and fitness enthusiasts who offered support (which we greatly appreciated). But

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There will be no 2016 Endeavor Team Challenge

It is with great regret that we are writing to announce that we will not be hosting a 2016 Endeavor Team Challenge. We know there were some emails and social media posts announcing that we were doing the event this year, and we apologize for the false start.  We wanted to make it work, but then we came to the table and had the tough conversation that led to this decision.  Here is our reasoning:

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2015 ETC: What Will Change, What Won’t

Every year in September a small group of dedicated individuals meet in the Sierra Nevada Mountains for the Endeavor Team Challenge.  As Greg Hastings explains, “This isn’t the longest event out there, or the the most difficult, but it is the best executed.”  He attributes that execution to two special groups of people – our volunteers and our competitors. We are blessed with a volunteer staff of exceptional ability: Army Rangers, Special Forces Operators, EMTs,

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2013 Lessons Learned and the Path Forward

I.                Summary: This post is a roll up of our goals for the 2013 Endeavor Team Challenge, how we did in achieving them, and what changes we are making for next year. II.                The Goal: When we designed the Endeavor Team Challenge our goal was to build the ultimate culminating fitness event.  In our minds such an event needed to be the following things: Accessible to the average athlete (with training) A broad test fitness Something

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