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Saturday Aug 12, 2017 #
8 AM
Trekking 1:39:53 [3] 8.1 mi (12:20 / mi) +176m 11:33 / mi
Woke up before my alarm again, guess who? SEAGATE. :)
Waited again for them to clear out before I got up and got myself situated. Had a cup of coffee while I watched SAFAT and AMK and Haglofs roll through. Caught AMK's full TA. What I noticed is that a successful TA is a tight TA, when team members stay closer together there is less corralling or impression of more time. As AMK entered this TA one of their members drifted some but Mari reigned him right in to their bins, and before they headed out...they had a diet pepsi treat, I don't think any of them had whiskey.
In the meantime, I decided to suit up and go out the several routes teams may have come in on, but I didn't dare to go further than the valley. Back and forth, back and forth. Then ventured up the hill to see there was service, and around. Then breakfast, then coffee, then waiting.
In the meantime, Fenix had to retire and wait around they expected for some time. Casually asked if they wanted a beer, or six. They were happy!
They arrived about mid day, and heard how brutal that trek was. Feet were a bit worse for wear, for sure! They got treated and bandaged and headed off on bikes. Told them I would meet them at 17, the rappel. As I headed out I decided to drive through Atlantic City, and ran into Legendary Randy, Rob Howard and Chris Radcliffe. Gave them all a run down of what was going on at the TA, and they invited me for a beer, sure! Swapped stories, but kept an eye out for teams.
Decided to head into Landers for the night, and splurged on a hotel. I was glad to have internet and a chance to shower and "reset". Dot watched, updated the page, and watched coverage of Charlottesville. :\
I expected the team to roll into the TA around 12:30aish and they were well on their way to the rappel around 1a. Then down to the caves and back and on their bikes for the monster bike. They decided to bed down about a half hour in to refresh for the ride. I got to the hotel around 4/5ish.
Waited again for them to clear out before I got up and got myself situated. Had a cup of coffee while I watched SAFAT and AMK and Haglofs roll through. Caught AMK's full TA. What I noticed is that a successful TA is a tight TA, when team members stay closer together there is less corralling or impression of more time. As AMK entered this TA one of their members drifted some but Mari reigned him right in to their bins, and before they headed out...they had a diet pepsi treat, I don't think any of them had whiskey.
In the meantime, I decided to suit up and go out the several routes teams may have come in on, but I didn't dare to go further than the valley. Back and forth, back and forth. Then ventured up the hill to see there was service, and around. Then breakfast, then coffee, then waiting.
In the meantime, Fenix had to retire and wait around they expected for some time. Casually asked if they wanted a beer, or six. They were happy!
They arrived about mid day, and heard how brutal that trek was. Feet were a bit worse for wear, for sure! They got treated and bandaged and headed off on bikes. Told them I would meet them at 17, the rappel. As I headed out I decided to drive through Atlantic City, and ran into Legendary Randy, Rob Howard and Chris Radcliffe. Gave them all a run down of what was going on at the TA, and they invited me for a beer, sure! Swapped stories, but kept an eye out for teams.
Decided to head into Landers for the night, and splurged on a hotel. I was glad to have internet and a chance to shower and "reset". Dot watched, updated the page, and watched coverage of Charlottesville. :\
I expected the team to roll into the TA around 12:30aish and they were well on their way to the rappel around 1a. Then down to the caves and back and on their bikes for the monster bike. They decided to bed down about a half hour in to refresh for the ride. I got to the hotel around 4/5ish.