It was more 16 miles of challenging terrain, terrain covering all sorts of circumstances.

A mile and a half of uncut hiking trail. Eight miles of obstacle-ridden mountain bike trail. Seven miles in a canoe on the Baskahegan Stream.

And just 2 Lawrence High School students trying to cover the course in less time than 8 other teams of high school students.

Seniors Bow Willoughby and Tyler Hienrich of Fairfield finished 4th in the East Grand Adventure Race, completing the course in a time of 2 hours, 56 minutes last Saturday. The East Grand team of Harvey and Abe Brittain were the day's winners in a time of 2:25.

Think Bear Grylls of Discovery's "Man vs. Wild" meets CBS's "The Amazing Race." Along the way teams encountered everything from newborn moose to washed-out culverts.

"Not only did the event promote good physical exercise," said event organizer Dave Conley of East Grand High School, "(but) it was a fun way to get young people involved with the outdoors while imroving on wilderness traveling skills."