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Cancelled for 2006
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Marathon Race: 11:00 AM, (1.3 mile portage, wheels OK, need not be carried)
Fun Race: 12:00 (no portage)
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Marathon Race: Mossy Point Boat Launch on the north-east side of Lake George.
Fun Race: will start at Bicentennial Park, downtown Ticonderoga
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Bicentennial Park, Ticonderoga (all races)
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Marathon Race (7.5 miles):
Solo Canoe and Kayak: men, and women;
Tandem Canoe: men, women. and mixed.
Stock Canoe: solo, men, women, and mixed.
Fun Race (4 miles):
any canoe or kayak, any number of paddlers, combined class race
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Marathon Race 7.5 miles: 10:00 am, Mossy Point Boat Launch, Ticonderoga, Start 11:00 am.
Fun Race 4 miles: (no portage) 11:30 am, Bicentennial Park, Ticonderoga, Start 12:00.
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Links
NYMCRA, State Canoe Racing Association
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About the Historical Portage
Ticonderoga, located on an ancient Indian portage, derived its name from the Iroquois word cheonderoga meaning "between two waters," or "where the waters meet."
The site, on the main route between Canada and the upper Hudson River valley, was of strategic importance to the French who built Fort Carillon on Lake Champlain in 1755. Captured by the British in 1759 (during the French and Indian War), the fort was renamed Ticonderoga. During the American Revolution the Green Mountain Boys, led by Ethan Allen and Benedict Arnold, overran the fort in a surprise attack on May 10, 1775, and seized artillery that Henry Knox transported to Boston for use against the British. It was retaken (1777) by the British under General John Burgoyne, who abandoned it after the Battles of Saratoga. Ticonderoga has been the key to the continent.
This race will retrace this route taken by fur traders, Native Americans, and invading soldiers as they traveled between Lake George and Lake Champlain
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