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A TOUGH CLIMB
Jumping into their speedboat, Ron & Christina whooped and hollered as the watercraft skimmed along the surface of the crystal clear 2-Mile River, darting around mammoth chunks of ice along the way to the looming glacier. On her experience, Christina noted, "Being able to run this race with my dad is a dream come true. We've grown closer to each other." Arriving at the glacier, the father and daughter's pleasant boat ride turned into a nightmare as Ron had to face his fear of heights to climb the glacier to the next clue. While Ron may have felt intimidated, he buried his pickaxes into the ice and slowly began to inch up the massive glacier as Christina cheered him on. While Ron continued to make progress in an impressive fashion, Christina floundered and flailed as she couldn't get a grip to move up the glacier. After nearly falling off the glacier altogether, Christina focused and began slowly moving up, later remarking, "What really just pulled me through was knowing that my dad was going to receive me on the top of the glacier." Finally at the top, the duo opened their next clue, instructing them to take a breathtaking ride in a helicopter through the Alaskan wilderness to a clearing known as Merrill Field. When they landed, they had to travel by taxi to Goose Lake Park where their next clue awaited.

THE ULTIMATE PUZZLE
After their thrilling ride in the chopper, Ron & Christina still maintained a slim lead on TK & Rachel, as both Teams headed in taxis to Goose Lake Park. At the park, the father and daughter opened their clue to find the final Road Block of the race. In it, one team member had to face a field of objects they encountered along the race course. Each Team was given fifteen recognizable items from different legs of the race. With stress and exhaustion at an all-time high, they had to place on a stage ten specific items that matched two different requirements. First, there could only be one item from each of the ten legs of the race. Second, only three items could be animals or animal by-products, one had to be a U-turn, two had to be items either at or brought to the Pit Stop, two had to be items of transportation with wheels, one of which was used at a Detour, and one had to be an item of transportation resembling the shape of a stick. While there were several ways to fulfill either of the requirements, only one correct group of ten items fulfilled both.

Hoping that Christina had the better memory and problem solving skills for her Team, she began to think through the very complicated puzzle trying to deduce the correct answers which were: the tandem bicycle from Ireland, the Detour bike from Amsterdam, the camel milk and chicken from Burkina Faso, the Detour stilts from Lithuania, the gun fired at the Pit Stop in Croatia, the Blackberry in Italy, the U-turn in India, the cleaning man in Japan, and the tea cups in Taiwan.

As Christina correctly identified the U-turn from India, TK & Rachel arrived in second place and Rachel opted to perform this critical Road Block that could determine the winner of the race. When Nick joined in to make it a three-way race, Ron, TK, and Don all stood on the sidelines hoping their partner would be the one to solve the puzzle first.

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