Monday, October 31, 2011

I Love The Life I Live (I Live The Life I Love)

Sorry for the delay, busy day, but i'm currently having my liver cleansed...

Got out of G'vegas


and up to Cove Creek in Pisgah  Friday night and it  was friggin' cold and wet...  it rained all night long,  we had a pretty good fire started ...

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...and then heavy rains came.

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The rain gave way to blue skies and cold winds.

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Thank God for coffee & misguided Gnomes

time for Double Dare to start... What is Double Dare?  Well it's 2 person teams that start at noon on Saturday and have to ride to find up to 10 checkpoints scattered throughout the forest,  and then make it  back before midnight or be DQ'd.    Then at 6:00 am the next day to do it all over again and attempt to get 10 new checkpoints before 6:00pm Sunday evening.

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the Good

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the Bad 

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more Bad
   
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and the Ugly

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More Ugly  (Dicky and his mooseknuckle)

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Eric going through the Rules

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the Passports get handed out to the Teams

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then they've got to figure out the best route to get the most checkpoints and be back before midnight...

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from there it's a long cold day and night in the woods



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pit stop

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Looking Glass

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Top  of Bennett Gap

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freezing my balls off

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Pisgah is magical this time of year

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after sitting on Bennet i went up halfway up Pilot Rock and froze for an hour waiting for a team to come through up or down...   nobody...

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the Fire back at Cove Creek

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was calling my name

To Be Continued....

What's Playing: The Number of the Beast - Iron Maiden

Iron Maiden - The Number Of The Beast
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1 comments:

Anonymous said...

looks like fun, great looking area. Cool idea for a race. How hard is it ?