The Livewire - Winter 24 Hour Rogaine

We drove down early in the morning on Saturday (5:30am) because I had a test on Friday night and saw our first gorgeous sunrise on the way.



The team was me, maharetr, prk and ascetic_hedony (we probably did about 20km 24.2km) and picked up 12 controls for about 800 points. Our navigation was awesome (we picked up everything we aimed for) and we did some lovely night navigating through local paddocks and bushland. We hiked at a good pace up some impressive hills and eventually slowed when 3 of the 8 knees on our team complained heartily at their brutal treatment. We were out from 12pm to a little past 8pm on the Saturday and had a great view of the partial lunar eclipse. Despite cold, rain and steep hills our team was fantastic. I am especially proud of ascetic_hedony and my rendition of The Rose while prk changed his torch batteries sitting on a wet stump surrounded by dripping forest.

The local area and camp site were beautiful and we were lucky to have farmers hosting who built us a HUGE fire to cower near from the cold - I stood as close as possible and steamed gently for ages once we made it back to camp. We then went out again the next morning to see if various knees would warm up but our test walk told us that more hiking was not favoured so we collected one more control and very gently walked back to camp. The below photo is of one of the large dams in the area - the views were lovely.