On Friday morning Adam Doti and I (Donato Polignone) agreed to race the Blackberry Challenge (www.blackberrycurveuc.com) this past Saturday. I agreed under one condition we hunt “wabbits.”
As we expect during registration one of the “wabbits” was spotted. Pictured below Rick Barriff (apparently John Moss was still hiding in his wabbit hole):
OK, so we spotted the “wabbits” and the race…err eh, hunt will soon begin. We were giving 9 CP’s (Check Points) to hit in any order. We had to find them on the SF map and decide which to do in the fastest possible time. One of the Check points included getting a Ferry ticket and visiting Alcatraz Island and completing a special skills test there which included answering 3 questions about the island which after 30-45 minutes of searching we finally found our answers. From there we ran from CP to CP back to the finish line. our 2nd to last CP required us to go to Coit tower and “squish” a penny. this check point would cost us dearly. Coit tower being one of my old training grounds, we just assumed that one was cake we flew up the back way (from Lombard St) and found the penny machine, squished our penny and then ran off to the finish line.

As we crossed the finish line we found the wabbits waiting for us, apparently in 2nd we were excited to here that we might have won the 2nd place cash prize of $6,000. Only to find out a few minutes later than we forgot to get our passports signed at the Coit tower CP.

In typical Bug’s and Elmer fashion the wabbit(s) live to run another day. Adam and I ended up with a $6,000 squished penny….Better luck next time!

The $6000 penny!

Our Garmin GPS track is here:

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