Monday, May 15, 2006
man with the gun
firstly, i would like to say that jonathan levin and his bro, ben, are the new junior australian rogaining champions.
jon and ben getting their trophy... boot... thing...it was a really good experience, i was pretty hesitant about doing it with some random man i'd never met before, not to mention doing it at all in the first place. but i like the outdoors, and im always up for a challenge.
i dont have much else to say, other than boris is awesome, i am not. team X111 (us) got 860 points i think, and we ended up walking/running/hiking/crawling about 40km in 24 hours. we got a fair amount of sleep in there as well, a bit more than expected, but i could have slept for 24 hours after the first days effort. (the comp started at midday saturday, and ended midday sunday.)
here is a photo from the summit of one of the super huge mountain things we climbed.
yeah, it was dark, and it was my camera phone. and basically it is a black picture with a white dot in it. the white dot is the moon.
in reality, there were also little lights of farm houses scattered around and campfires plus , you could see for miles.
here is a picture of our camp.
it was in the town centre of a little place called barkly. the town consisted of a tiny weeny church, a town bell and a town hall. the town hall for the event served as the hash house. yes, i got quite excited by the name too the firt time i heard it. however, its actually just a place where they serve food for the entire event, and its where you finish.
so yeah. jon and ben won. emma and boris didnt. but emma and boris had fun. jon and ben did not. the end.
in reality, there were also little lights of farm houses scattered around and campfires plus , you could see for miles.
here is a picture of our camp.
it was in the town centre of a little place called barkly. the town consisted of a tiny weeny church, a town bell and a town hall. the town hall for the event served as the hash house. yes, i got quite excited by the name too the firt time i heard it. however, its actually just a place where they serve food for the entire event, and its where you finish.
so yeah. jon and ben won. emma and boris didnt. but emma and boris had fun. jon and ben did not. the end.