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Reflections & tales from a life of adventure faith & Family
…we climbed though the beech forest when disaster stuck. Fiona stepped into a now frenzy of angry wasps. Apparently as we moved up the mountain I had stepped unknowingly into the nest, Aaron pissed them off and Fiona took the brunt of it. We… Continue Reading “GODZONE ADVENTURE RACE CHAPTER 10.3”
Descending from Pass Pass we were informed we were in 5th Place. That is both good & bad news. One reason I agreed to do this race was ‘go and have an adventure’. Racing with 2 rookies meant that our agreed objectives were to… Continue Reading “GODZONE ADVENTURE RACE CHAPTER 10.2”
This years GZ wasn’t on my radar, with reflections from GZ Chapter 8-Canterbury in 2020 being my last. However last year when I was approached about racing with 2 rookies and some financial aid to pay the sizable entry fee… how could I resist.… Continue Reading “GodZone Adventure Race Chapter 10.1”
This is not a New Years Resolution, however I do need and want to get back to this. I run my mouth enough that I should be able to put some of these ideas down on here. Perhaps a good place to start is… Continue Reading “10 years”
Over 16 years of preparing and leading summer staff for the pressure cooker environment of American summer camps has revealed to me a few anecdotal observations of the mental and emotional make-up of youth and young adults. My “first summer” in the late 90’s… Continue Reading “The Wall Is Now Very Low.”
Its been a few weeks coming, not out of deep thought or anything, just distractions, laziness and a reluctance to write it. The last chapter ended like this… “And so it was over. But not all the feelings that needed to be addressed and… Continue Reading “Ok… here it is”
The Rowallen Forest was this combination of commercial forestry and native bush and was littered with roads, trails and pathways. And of course the map didn’t match up reality and reality didn’t match with the map. Being a commercial forest in places there were… Continue Reading “GODZONE REPORT PT.8”
There were multiple teams coming and going, which is a good sign one is in the right area. However as a team you never want to give away the exact location of a CP. By this point the light was fading and while other… Continue Reading “GODZONE REPORT PT.7”
As we left that TA we at least had full bellies, but that combine with full packs meant I was full of not being happy. For some reason as we made our way down to Lake Hauroko I was not doing well mentally. This… Continue Reading “GODZONE REPORT PT.6”
As mentioned before sometimes getting to the start line is a major achievement. And this year was an exceptional one for that. In fact some of the challenges we had didn’t resolve themselves till after the race and started and by then it was… Continue Reading “GODZONE REPORT Pt.5”
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