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From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Francois Sent: 13 June 2012 09:05 To: [email protected] Subject: [D&D-chat] Good luck Zurika with Ride 2 Rhodes! Hey a tough one, hope you had some hill climbing training and sleeping in the fridge. Good luck and enjoy, keep on reminding yourself that you are having fun. A mighty achievement and a memory that will always be with you. From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Carine Sent: Wednesday, June 13, 2012 8:40 AM To: darkanddirty Subject: [D&D-chat] good luck Zurika with Ride 2 Rhodes! Zurika started Ride2Rhodes this morning. It's the first 6 days of Freedom Challenge. Follow the Freedom Challenge and Ride2Rhodes here: http://freedomchallenge.org.za/ There's regular updates, and twitter feeds from most of the riders. Weather updates here: http://freedomchallenge.org.za/index.php?option=com_content&view=article &id=671 There were snow last weekend en route, and masekala measured -12 3 nights ago Zurika - enjoy it very much and remember: if there's no ride report, it didn't happen! Here's roughly the route that they will be following. Today: pmb - minerva - hella-hella - mackenzie; 2600+ m vertical ascent Mild distric road, a loong climb on forest tracks and later singletrack into minerva, lunch and fire in a tracktor and farm-implement-musuem. Then a steep downhill, more downhill, a rivercrossing or 2, map interpretations, a very steep climb up hella-hella, and overnight at Sani2Cs first night. Tomorrow: mackenzie - donnybrooke - centacow - ntsikeni; 2600+ m vertical ascent They'll most likely start in the dark, doing parts of the first day of Sani2C in reverse. There's some stunning singletrack and forest-cycling into centacow, then a district road and offroad on cattletracks - the last bit of uphill cycling on cattletracks to ntsikeni may be in the dark and there may be rivercrossings. Friday: ntsikeni - masekala; 1700+ m vertical ascent They will most likely start in the dark again. Some swamps, some downhills, a few kays on a district road, lunch at a farmhouse, and then a long climb over a ridge. A downhill to match, more downhill, and finally some navigation. If there were any mechanicals during the day, they may arrive just before or even after dark. Saturday: masekala - queens mercy - malekonyane in 9 hours with 1000 of vertical ascent They'll cycle on a massive plain and then downwards on cattletracks. Some climbing, mapreading, and if they can find the downhill, a cattletrack-downhill to a farmhouse, and onwards to malekonyane. Sunday: malekonyane, tinana, vuvu; around 2000m of vertical ascent they will most likely start in the dark. some muddy singletrack, then district road, a climb, some downs, then off into the mountains for more singletrack, up to black fountain on cattle tracks, and then a natural bikepark made from cattletracks and wood-drag-trails. A very technical downhill to tinana mission, then a climb on district road, and then either a 20-something of cobblestone winding up-down never-ending district road, or hikingtrails to vuvu. Monday: vuvu-lehana-rhodes; 1500+ m vertical ascent They may again start in the dark. It's a downhill from vuvu and then up into lehana - 'n hike-a-bike on cattletracks up the mountain. downhill to the tenahead lodge, and then down to the top of naudes neck, and then down into Rhodes. c. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "DarkAndDirty" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. 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