Carine - 2009???
On Fri, May 22, 2009 at 6:49 PM, Carine Reyneke <[email protected]>wrote: > 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
