| Saturday, November 04, 2006 |
| Trailwalker - 6 days to go |
| 6 days to go til Trailwalker.
We live right at the end of the course. The event actually finishes on our property - they've already got all the tents setup a few hundred metres from our house. Last night Helen and I went for a short walk along part of stage ten and there's a lights installed along the steps at the back of our property. Would be nice if they were left there all year round!
We left the trail to do a bit of hill climbing, as stage ten is so flat. Good test for using two gifts i was given this week: hiking stick and head torch (Thanks Steve for the torch!).
My last major hike was last Monday. Stage 4 of the trail, include the Ma On Shan climb.
There were pink trailwalker signs setup along the trail, and places where the Maclehose signage isn't the clearest. Again, would be nice if they were left all year.
We last did this stage backwards (i.e. from the end to the beginning, to actually walking backwards!), which is meant to be easier and we still found it really hard. So I wanted to at least do it the right way once. Rather surprisingly, we found it much easier. While doing the trail we remembered that last time we left the trail to climb Pyramid Hill (because we thought it was Ma On Shan) and then again to climb the Ma On Shan peak up to 702m. So this was what made it so tough. Withouth those 2 peaks, the climb was much easier.
I'm thinking about blogging during the event, if my phone co-operates, so watch this space! And I've just discovered that Trailwalker and Yahoo are partnering in some blogging way, but it's all in chinese so I'm not exactly sure how it works... |
posted by Mike & Helen @ 5:52 PM   |
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