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Wednesday Jun 12, 2019 #
6 AM
Trek 7:30:00 [3] 20.0 km (22:30 / km)
slept:4.0 shoes: Brooks Cascadia 12 (green)
We found a reasonably flat, dry spot and unloaded our bivys and the bothy bag and climbed in. Then the rain started. As it turns out the bothy bag is not nearly big enough to cover 4 people laying down and it is not waterproof. Our earlier decision to not bring my tent on this leg now seemed pretty foolish. What followed was about 2 hours of sleeping and 4 hours of uncontrollable shivering.
Fortunately the rain stopped just before dawn. We crawled out of our bivy's and ate some race food for breakfast. The area was clouded in but in small breaks we could make out our position. Dave immediately identified the trail across the valley as the trail we had climbed up towards CP19.
we slept here.
With our position confirmed we packed up and climbed up and over to the opposite side of the spur we were on and into the correct valley, where we had been 13 hours before.
While descending down the valley we ran into two race staff and they let us know about the carnage relative to teams getting lost, dropping out, etc. They presented a car ride if we wanted it but we were feeling fine and preferred to get to the next TA which was about 20k away still. The valley floor was essentially turbal but with a little less water so you could actually stay relatively dry as you trekked.
We traveled through a small town and looked for some Cokes but came up empty. The town was just before the climb up to CP20 which was the check-in for the ropes course, unfortunately the ropes had been cleared prior to our arrival. It was raining on and off and very windy so I doubt we would have been allowed to go up on the spire anyways. It looked awesome.
An Alpaka on autopilot
From CP20 it should have been all down hill to the TA but Dave and I both misinterpreted the out of bounds road and we ended up with a slight detour with a little more climbing while headed into town. It did offer up this cool shot of the ropes course over our shoulders though.
We were greeted at the TA and informed that we would be shuttled to the finish where we could unload our bikes and ride across the finish line. Our bikes were already in the boxes and it seemed like way too much of effort for a photo which is why you can see Shane wearing flip-flops in some of our finish photos.
Overall not crossing the finish line as official finishers sucks. Without the mix up at CP19 I'm pretty sure we would have completed the ropes, been short-coursed at the next trek leg and ridden to the finish which would have been much more rewarding. Given that even Columbia couldn't finish this course in the time allotted tells me it was way too big to begin with.
Having said that though I have to commend the organization otherwise. It’s been my experience at some overseas races that as soon as the race ends the organization and volunteer networks seem to disappear. We had excellent assistance here right up until we departed for the airport.
Fortunately the rain stopped just before dawn. We crawled out of our bivy's and ate some race food for breakfast. The area was clouded in but in small breaks we could make out our position. Dave immediately identified the trail across the valley as the trail we had climbed up towards CP19.
we slept here.
With our position confirmed we packed up and climbed up and over to the opposite side of the spur we were on and into the correct valley, where we had been 13 hours before.
While descending down the valley we ran into two race staff and they let us know about the carnage relative to teams getting lost, dropping out, etc. They presented a car ride if we wanted it but we were feeling fine and preferred to get to the next TA which was about 20k away still. The valley floor was essentially turbal but with a little less water so you could actually stay relatively dry as you trekked.
We traveled through a small town and looked for some Cokes but came up empty. The town was just before the climb up to CP20 which was the check-in for the ropes course, unfortunately the ropes had been cleared prior to our arrival. It was raining on and off and very windy so I doubt we would have been allowed to go up on the spire anyways. It looked awesome.
An Alpaka on autopilot
From CP20 it should have been all down hill to the TA but Dave and I both misinterpreted the out of bounds road and we ended up with a slight detour with a little more climbing while headed into town. It did offer up this cool shot of the ropes course over our shoulders though.
We were greeted at the TA and informed that we would be shuttled to the finish where we could unload our bikes and ride across the finish line. Our bikes were already in the boxes and it seemed like way too much of effort for a photo which is why you can see Shane wearing flip-flops in some of our finish photos.
Overall not crossing the finish line as official finishers sucks. Without the mix up at CP19 I'm pretty sure we would have completed the ropes, been short-coursed at the next trek leg and ridden to the finish which would have been much more rewarding. Given that even Columbia couldn't finish this course in the time allotted tells me it was way too big to begin with.
Having said that though I have to commend the organization otherwise. It’s been my experience at some overseas races that as soon as the race ends the organization and volunteer networks seem to disappear. We had excellent assistance here right up until we departed for the airport.