The Red Tail Adventure Race is fun, challenging event for the experienced racer. It is not a course for the person new to adventure race. The course is designed to take 5 to 10 hours to complete and includes kayaking, mountain biking and orienteering through Del Valle Regional Park in Livermore, CA (about 1 hour east of San Francisco). The park is centered around a five mile long lake, surrounded by 4,316 acres of land and 28 miles of scenic back country trail.

It is recommended that you have some familiarity with each of the disciplines of the event. At least one of your team members needs to have a basic knowledge of navigation and orienteering skills.
All participants are responsible for their own personal hydration and nutrition.

There are four competitor categories for this event: 4 Person, 3 Person, 2 person and Solo. Each category is split into three divisions: coed, all male and all female (of course the Solo category can't be coed. Schizophrenia does not apply.) Masters (all team members 45 and older) and Grand Masters (all team members 50 and older) divisions are also available.

The Red Tail Adventure Race takes place at the same time and place as the Red Tail Sprint, a 2-4 hour event. Both are part of the Seventh Wave Productions' renowned Big Blue Adventure Series, which also includes the Silver Sage Sprint, Tahoe Winter Blue, Ocean Blue Sprint and Castaic Lake Off-Road Triathlon.

KAYAKING
There is about 7 miles of Kayaking in Lake Del Valle.

MAP & COMPASS
The race provides teams with Topographic maps that describe the shape of the land. They define and locate natural and manmade features (forests, creeks, rivers, canyons, buildings, bridges.) They show the distance between any two places, and they also show the direction from one point to another. Distances and directions take a bit of figuring, but the topography and features of the land are easy to determine. The topography is shown by contours. These are imaginary lines that follow the ground surface at a constant elevation; and can provide information on the natural form of the land around you. Throughout the race you will navigate from place to place on land and water using topographic and other map forms and of course a compass.

MOUNTAIN BIKING
There are over 15 miles of single track, double track and fire trail to be traveled on the race with an elevation gain that will exceed 2000 feet.

FOOT TRAVEL
About 5-8 miles of foot travel will be on a mixture of single track, fire road, sand and pavement with about 900 feet of elevation gain.