Thursday, June 28, 2007

Those packs weren't made for walking.

The flying is fine, no the flying is brilliant, I can totally cope with getting over 10,000ft every day, it's the walk out that wears you down. The first task I walked out for almost 2 hours, yesterday I walked out with james and another guy for over an hour and today I'm feeling it. The half dozen ticks I found last night and this morning aren't really doing anything for me either. There is a couple roads out here and a whole lot of nothing in between them, I've made a real effort to stay near the roads and still managed to walk 3hrs in 2 days. I don't mind walking at all - with about 10 kilos less on my back and a back pack that isn't just an after thought. What's really scary is that at a little over 20 kilos, my gear is actually lighter than most. I guess I could just start getting to goal and it wont be an issue.

Our 30 knots winds haven't arrived so it looks like we're going flying today. I'm going to be positive and tell you that my next post will be about how I made goal and had a nice 50m stroll to the waiting retrieve vehicle with cold beer and airconditioning. Ahhhh.

3 comments:

Heike said...
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Heike said...

Hi Benn,

Thanks for a great blog - just caught up with all your posts. You write really well!

Not sure if we'll get to fly any more in this competition - the forcast shows strong winds for the next 3 days - let's hope it's wrong.

Ciao, Heike

Unknown said...

hi sweetie,
One word, TICKS. AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!Makes me think of scarebs from the movie the mummy, Ugh!!! My skin will be crawling for days, country kids or not, that is fuckin horrid. I will be dipping you in ammonia when you get home. Love you. Lizz xoxox