Basic Bamboo Man Challenge Course

Team participants have an additional handicap, they must carry a 'wounded man' (dummy) with them over the course, and must negotiate slightly different set of obstacles.

Time penalties & scoring system - Penalties are accrued at 10 minutes per obstacle not attempted, or not completed. All team members must complete each obstacle in order not to be penalised at 40 minutes per obstacle, per team. The total time taken counts towards your overall score.

A circuit consists of once around the frame (up to the +6 metre level , across the frame, down to the bottom level, then a return across the frame at the + 1m level to the start point). The full course consists of 3 circuits, using a different method of ascent and crossing on each circuit.

Description – One face of our 14 metre climbing wall tower is hung with a 3 metre wide cargo net. Participants must scramble up the net from the ground level to the 14 metre level and then move to the opposite face where they abseil back down to the ground level.

Time penalties & scoring system - Penalties are accrued at 10 minutes per obstacle (cargo net climb or abseil) not attempted, or not completed. All team members must complete each obstacle in order that the whole team not to be penalised at 40 minutes per obstacle. The total time taken counts towards your overall score.

The permanent obstacles consists of numerous humps, ditches and slopes. In addition, we add various 'skills sections' to test the ability of the riders to negotiate different obstacles / terrain.

Several 'skills sections' are marked as mandatory elements for each of the Basic, Intermediate and Advanced level category participants of the Bamboo Man Challenge.

Time penalties & scoring system - Penalties are accrued at 10 minutes per skills section not attempted, or not completed. All team members must complete each skills section in order that the whole team not to be penalised at 40 minutes per skills section. The total time taken counts towards your overall score.

Crossing the Fang – Ban Thaton road in the Mae Sao area, you follow more dirt roads to finish the mountain bike section at Huay Bon Dam in the foothills of the Poo Muen mountain range.

Time penalties and scoring system – The time taken for the phase is added to the individual's or the team's challenge score.

Note* The inner tubes act as safety stops for those who tire along the way, and the route is patrolled in kayaks by safety personnel.

Time penalties and scoring system – The time taken for the phase is added to the individual's or the team's total challenge score.

Description - Canadian Indian Trading canoes are used for this phase. They can seat up to 4 canoeists. Individual participants take one canoe, whilst teams must construct their own bamboo rafts before they set off along the (opposite) side of the swim line to the far end of the dam some 400m distant.

They round a marker buoy at the 400m point and then return back along the length of the swim line (on the same side) to the canoe phase starting point thus completing the canoeing/rafting phase.

Time penalties and scoring system – The time taken for the phase is added to the individual's or the team's total challenge score.

From the forest temple you follow an 8 kilometre long, well marked route that passes through the cave system itself. Leaving the cave, you run along a trail that leads through dense bamboo forest, over streams and gullies as you follow the contours around the low hills of the Poo Muen range to the finish line in front of the forestry station at the Fang hot springs.

Participants are given 30 minutes to complete the tests and can score a possible total of 150 points. They may of course choose to finish this phase as quickly as possible in order to gain a time advantage.

Penalties & Scoring system - Individuals are penalised at 1 minute per point for every point they fall short of the total possible score – 150 points.