just in case you were thinking of NOT reading this report, a few more quotes: At one point, he stopped and asked the group of BPAers for complete silence while we listened to the forest - to birds we had never heard before, snakes slithering on the ground, bears moaning in the distance. Then we let out a couple of cries just to hear our voices echo. The front of the pack probably did not do this.
..... Finishing was not a given on day 5, which socked us with 65 kilometers and 6490 feet of climbing over some of the most physically and mentally demanding terrain I've ever seen... The demand on our skills was so relentless that it seemed like graduate school for mountain bikers ... ... More than one teammate at the Eco-Challenge and Primal Quest adventure races told me to keep my eyes on the trail and hurry my ass up. I'd respond, 'Hey, we're not going to win anything - and we'll never see anything like this again' ... here's to the 'chair-ness' of D&D - and hoping to find some buddies for this ride in 2009 :-) c. 2009/5/22 Carine Reyneke <[email protected]> > about the bc bikerace, a 7-day stages MTB race from vancouver to whistler, > claiming to have the world's best singletrack. > > start saving for next year! > > > https://www.bcbikerace.com/assets/downloads/Chair_Pt1.jpg?utm_medium=email&utm_source=Email+marketing+software&utm_content=102536654&utm_campaign=BC+Bike+Race+May+Newsletter+_+tkehi&utm_term=Part+1 > > the whole story is a picture, so i can't copy from there ... but the story > starts like this: > > Deep in a forest near Whistler, British Columbia - a forest so dense with > evergreen trees that sunlight barely penetrates the canopy - is a chair. > > It;s a big, puffy reddish-orange armchair ... > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "DarkAndDirty" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/DarkAndDirty?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
