Adventure Race Reports :: FAQ

Adventure racing is a sport that involves racing, usually in wilderness terrain, along an unmarked course consisting of a series of checkpoints. Adventure races typically have three core disciplines: hiking or running, mountain bike riding, and kayaking. Very often, adventure races will also contain sections involving rope skills. The adventure race course is marked on maps which are distributed at the race start, so navigation skills (especially map and compass skills) are key.
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This site focuses on providing reports, stories, and reviews from adventure races. As much as possible, these articles are written by the adventure racers themselves, and give an unbiased perspective about what particular races were really like.
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This site has an adventure racing calendar, simply follow the link at the top of each screen. There you can find races by date and by state. If you click on an adventure race name, you'll go directly to the race advertisement (if it's an upcoming race) or the race review (if it's in the past).
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Registration is required in order to post articles to this site. It will also let you keep track of newly added articles. In addition, will give you access to additional features not available to guest users such as definable avatar images, private messaging, emailing to fellow users, usergroup subscription, etc. It only takes a few minutes to register so it is recommended you do so. Your email address will always be kept confidential, and will never be shared with other sites.
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Have you registered? Seriously, you must register in order to log in. If you have registered and you still cannot log in then check and double-check your username and password. Usually this is the problem; if not, contact the board administrator -- we may need to confirm activation of your account.
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If you do not check the Log me in automatically box when you log in, the board will only keep you logged in for a preset time. This prevents misuse of your account by anyone else. To stay logged in, check the box during login. This is not recommended if you access the board from a shared computer, e.g. library, internet cafe, university cluster, etc.
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To prevent "forum spam", the Adventure Race Reports site automatically hides the website links from newly-registered users for 14 days.
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Don't panic! While your password cannot be retrieved it can be reset. To do this go to the login page and click I've forgotten my password. Follow the instructions and you should be back online in no time.
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Certainly. Adventure Race Reports produces a syndicated feed of new articles, and these can be automatically sent to your personal email account. Read the article about automatic email delivery of new articles in the Miscellaneous forum.
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Posting a new race report, upcoming race, or other information is easy. Simply click on NEW TOPIC or POST REPLY, and a new screen will come up where you can enter your article. For more information, read the HOW TO POST article in the General Discussion forum.
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You can edit a post by clicking the edit button for the relevant post. For security reasons, only you can edit/delete your own messages. Also, you cannot delete a post once someone has replied. If you need any advanced help with editing, contact the site administrator, who will be glad to help.
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To add pictures to your article, and the picture is already on another website, simply surround the URL of the picture filename with [img]...[/img] tags. If you'd like to upload a picture from your computer, simply click on the

icon to the left of the editing screen.
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To add a signature to a post you must first create one; this is done via your profile. Once created you can check the Add Signature box on the posting form to add your signature. You can also add a signature by default to all your posts by checking the appropriate radio box in your profile. You can still prevent a signature being added to individual posts by un-checking the add signature box on the posting form.
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BBCode is a special implementation of HTML. Whether you can use BBCode is determined by the administrator. You can also disable it on a per post basis from the posting form. BBCode itself is similar in style to HTML: tags are enclosed in square braces [ and ] rather than < and > and it offers greater control over what and how something is displayed. For more information on BBCode see the guide which can be accessed from the posting page.
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For security reasons, the use of HTML is strictly limited on the ARR site. Most forms of HTML are completely disabled, so you should use the appropriate BBCode tags instead.
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All your settings (if you are registered) are stored in the database. To alter them click the Profile link on the top of any page. This will allow you to change all your settings.
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If the times on the ARR site aren't appearing correctly, simply visit your Profile page and edit the board timezone.
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This image is called an "avatar", and you can upload any image from your PC to the ARR site using the avatar option in your Profile page. Note that avatars should be less than 100 x 100 pixels in size.
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Sorry, but only registered users can send email to people via the built-in email form. This is to prevent malicious use of the email system by anonymous users.
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Private messaging is a useful way to communicate with other members of the Adventure Race Reports site. Simply register your user account, then log in and you're free to send PM's to any other member.
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If you ever receive unwanted private messages, please inform the ARR administrator. The PM priveleges of the offending user may then be removed.
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This software (in its unmodified form) is produced, released and is copyrighted phpBB Group. It is made available under the GNU General Public License and may be freely distributed; see link for more details
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This software was written by and licensed through phpBB Group. If you believe a feature needs to be added then please visit the phpbb.com website and see what the phpBB Group has to say. Please do not post feature requests to the board at phpbb.com, as the Group uses sourceforge to handle tasking of new features. Please read through the forums and see what, if any, our position may already be for features and then follow the procedure given there.
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You should contact the administrator of this board. If you cannot find who that is, you should first contact one of the forum moderators and ask them who you should in turn contact. If still get no response you should contact the owner of the domain (do a whois lookup) or, if this is running on a free service (e.g. yahoo, free.fr, f2s.com, etc.), the management or abuse department of that service. Please note that phpBB Group has absolutely no control and cannot in any way be held liable over how, where or by whom this board is used. It is absolutely pointless contacting phpBB Group in relation to any legal (cease and desist, liable, defamatory comment, etc.) matter not directly related to the phpbb.com website or the discrete software of phpBB itself. If you do email phpBB Group about any third party use of this software then you should expect a terse response or no response at all.
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The Adventure Race Reports site has a web server access log similar to all othe websites. Specifically, the web logs contain the domain name or IP address from which you connect to our site, the date and time you access the site, search terms, and the pages visited. We make periodic checks of the types of browsers/operating systems used and of the pages from which you direct-link to our site. We regularly delete raw data logs from the system. We create summary statistics from the Web logs in order to measure the number of visitors to the various sections of our site and to help make the site more useful.

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You do not have to provide any personal information to visit the Adventure Race Reports site. In order to post messages on the site, you need a registered account, in which a valid email address is required. If you choose to provide us with additional information about yourself through registration, you have the choice in the Profile page as to what information is displayed to other users of this site. Be assured that your email address will always remain hidden from other users.

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Except for authorized law enforcement investigations, no attempt is made to identify individual users or usage patterns. Adventure Race Reports does not give, share, sell or transfer any personal information to a third party.
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Adventure Race Reports takes multiple steps to ensure that your email address will not be available to other users or spammers. Most importantly, email addresses from the registration database are hidden from all users and visitors. On ARR, a webmail form is used which hides the recipients email address, rather than a direct email link. In addition, you can chose whether or not to let other ARR members send you mail in your Profile control panel. On occasion, the administrator of ARR may send out a general notice regarding some site changes; you can also opt out of these notices by sending a message to the admin (ARReports) on this site.
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By using the Adventure Race Reports site, you agree to abide by the following simple and common sense rules:

While the administrators and moderators of Adventure Race Reports (ARR) will attempt to remove or edit any generally objectionable material as quickly as possible, it is impossible to review every message. Therefore you acknowledge that all posts made to these forums express the views and opinions of the author and not the administrators, moderators or webmaster (except for posts by these people) and hence will not be held liable.

The ARR forums are dedicated to adventure racing. The use of offensive usernames, or the posting of offensive materials, may lead to you being immediately and permanently banned. The IP address of all posts is recorded to aid in enforcing these conditions. In addition, reviews posted on this site should be based on fact; any slanderous, unsupported, or inflammatory reviews may be locked or removed. The administrators and moderators of this forum have the right to remove, edit, move or close any topic at any time should they see fit.

No previously copyrighted content may be inserted into ARR posts without explicit permission from the copyright holder. Minor fair-use excerpts of less than one paragraph (4 sentences) are appropriate and may be used if the content is publicly available on the internet. A link to the content is encouraged. Moreover, you will not copy and retransmit any information out of these forums without first getting the permission of the original author of the message and an Adventure Race Reports moderator or administrator.

Messages posted at this site are the sole opinion and responsibility of the poster. You are responsible for your own posts, and you agree not to hold Adventure Race Reports or its members liable for anything stated within the forums. When a message is placed in any forum system, you are granting a license to the site to use it. As a user you agree to any information you have entered above being stored in a database. While this information will not be disclosed to any third party without your consent, the webmaster, administrator and moderators cannot be held responsible for any hacking attempt that may lead to the data being compromised.

While we actively encourage links towards companies that adventure racers might find useful, the forums are not a venue for advertisements concerning topics outside of adventure racing in any way. Users with a history of posting off-topic advertisements (spam) risk being banned. It will be the sole discretion of Adventure Race Reports and its moderators as to what constitutes an advertisement, and whether it is related to adventure racing.

This forum system uses cookies to store information on your local computer. These cookies do not contain any of the information you have entered above; they serve only to handle login/logout status. Your e-mail address is used only for confirming your registration details and password (and for sending new passwords should you forget your current one).

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