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Date: 24 October 2005 00:31:17
Wow - The peaks were AMAZING! I'm so glad i went! I would love to go into more detail about the weekend, but its gone midnight now, and I have to be in Neath by 9.15 tommorrow, so its going to have to be brief bullet points with the highlights:
* I never realised before how much fun, bog surfing in the rain is! (bog surfing is a term we made up for running down steep, peat bog slopes and then clambering up the other side!)
* If you do have a desire to go bog surfing, please remember the following advice:
- if there is water in the bottom of a bog pit, find out how deep it is, BEFORE you jump in and discover that the water comes up to your knee level (I sat in the muddy water laughing hysterically for several moments before realising the freezing water had seeped right through to my toes!)
- If its raining lots and you want to eat lunch, a bright orange shelter is a very good idea, except when you sit down and realise a stream of water is running through the inside of the shelter!
* I was impressed that after walking 10 miles, the following morning the only muscles that hurt were stomach ones - that I suspect were due to too much laughing (the 'lets make Jen laugh game', really wasn't funny this morning!)
* I am amazed at how some people managed to make it round the whole walk with very little mud on their clothing at the end of it - my legs were completely plastered and my jacket had a fair amount on too - even my PJs, which I only wore in my sleeping bag in the barn, got mud on them!!!
* I got VERY excited whenever I knew where we were - I'm sorry if people got fed up of me saying - "OHHH!!! I know where we are - last time I was here, it was snowing!!!"
* I did have an amazing time - lots of laughing and loads of mud. The only down side to the weekend is that I am now very confused about a lot of stuff. ERG needs to calm down after the craziness of the weekend, and do lots of thinking.