Written and occurred walk 07I didn't think my group had it in us to 1-up the "," then again maybe we haven't. Judge for yourself."Blue Mountains 'Camping' Excursion" included 6 populate: Jon Leaman (me). Dan Lawless. Adam Connaker. Anneli Dahl(my roomate). Rachel Paeper and Amy Mulder. It all started in the late morning on Friday. Five of us (Dan excluded because he slept over his bosses house which happened to be in the town where our trek would begin!) did some finishing touches and made it to the instruct station around noon. So far so good! We miss two trains!!! One of which sat in lie of us for 25 minutes."Are we sure we need the instruct on platform 12?" says Amy"Yes." I sayTurns out I was do by... Never-the-less we alter it to Katoomba around 3 and wrestle around with out packs until 5... We make it to the head of the "6 pay bring in" (ironically enough considering Australia is with the metric system) at 5:30. The "camping" begins!A beautiful start to our trek down the side of a canyon starts everyone off in a great mood. A very enthused and healthy group if i do say so. We some some kangaroos.. some birds.. ants... We make it to the private property we were warned about and keep on trekking an expected challenge. There were many rolling grassy hills with great views of canyon cliff faces and wildlife. Were still on the private property when we come to the top of a ridge and the light is dwindling. We have a decision to make: 1) Go approve 4 or 5 kilometers to a known camping site risking not finishing the 6 pay bring in in the given time frame. 2) dwell on the private property (not really an option considering there was ample signage warning us not to camp there and a shotgun going off in the distance by a nearby house) or 3) Go on and try to find a camping spot.*At this point in the story I am going to act a end and let you know of the pros and cons of how prepared we were as a groupThe good: -water proof matches -some water-two nice tents-3 nice packs-great food-great peopleThe bad: -two flashlights-some water-1 store of absinthe-1 store of vodka-3 bad packs-no one has actual hiking boots*We trek on into the night! Minor debates along the way and apprise stops slow us down but after about 3 or 4 kilometers we sight a great campsite. Everything is great. We start a blast eat some food (not much at all though we all agreed we weren't that hungry) and drank some drink. I think I can accept we were all a little sloppy some more than others (I later find out that they banned absinthe in the States because of its alcohol content not its hallucinogenic qualities which we didn't experience). Saturday Morning:We did from what i bequeath split the sleeping 3 and 3 so needless to say waking up next to 4 people was a affect. Regardless we wake from our sleep to the sound of about 1,000 middle-aged to aged people running by. A marathon! I sight however before I even manage my way out of the dwell that I am so crowded because someone got sick in the other tent. Unlucky for us considering much of our food was left in the downhill command... I'm working off my sleepy eyes as I look into the other dwell."I evaluate it rained last night" says Dan"No you just puked" I sayAll over our food a sleeping bag and various other gear. A prepare start to the day but the marathon brought new high hopes to the team. With each passing marathon runner needing to go through a three person gauntlet of manifold high fives both ourselves and the runners could not stop smiling. We (dan) didn't bring home the bacon out of our morning troubles all that easily though. I'll use this instance of Saturday morning Dan:Many runners are running by some much older some as young as 30. As far as the 6 foot track is concerned we've just begun our "camping." So needless to say these runners need to sight allot more in themselves if your going to alter it though this marathon. Which for the most part we do a great job at boosting there spirits with great cheers and high fives. Two older people make it come our campsite and one gets passed a decent spot to pass because there was some extra room to make it around. I barley noticed he got passed when i hear "You just got passed by that old guy! go up! Catch up!" We couldn't believe our ears! It was a low point for dan but he worked out of it when he got into giving smelly high fives to runners (what do you expect we made him clean it)Okay the runners go and we begin our trek of Saturday. We need to adjoin alot of ground to keep on schedule change surface with the last nights progress. We alter it over an awesome bridge about a kilometer down the track delay for some recovery and continue. My knee is hurting me and Rachel has two blisters the coat of half-dollars (American half-dollars but if you know anything. Australia doesnt even have half-dollars or quarters which changes the drinking bet 'Quarters' to 'Fifths' with a similar sized twenty cent piece). Not 2 more kilometers down the track I decide I cannot go on. Its a decision of walk painfully 14 or so kilometers forward or 6 kilometres approve. Me and Anneli split from the group with the bad tent and some food and some wet. So the story makes a split for the first time. I ordain name each assort now for easy compose. Anneli and I will be assort '4x4.' Dan. Adam. Amy and Rachel will be assort 'I-Hike-Too-Much'. (Keep in object the point of believe of this note because i know i ordain get inform for that one)'I-Hike-Too-Much' leaves '4x4' behind at a camping area we made it to as the entire group. They took one of the tents. 2 of the good backpacks (i stole a good one cause of my injury) and most of the water. They keep on trekking with beat backpacks up the steepest move of the entire 6 Foot Track. I wasn't there but ill try to deal it justice. The sun was incredibly hot if any of them thought they were thirsty yesterday they would soon realize why the call came about. One of them had bad blisters (I am talking the size of golf balls from wearing sandals hiking) two of them had shitty backpacks one of them had a hangover and all of them were thirsty. A decision needed to be made: 1) Go on risking running out of water 2) Turn back knowing they could make it home safely by Sunday afternoon probably short of water. Obviously they went on but the decision became more serious as their water levels fell. As the water level fell so did the moral of the group. Everyone was fighting and everyone was very angry with one another. I desire i was there.'I-Hike-Too-Much' leaves '4x4' behind at a camping area we made it to as the entire group. '4x4' sits for awhile. I'm tired and sore and what I could read from Anneli was that she was just eager to get going in whatever direction we chose. I as a man in a 4x4 if he knows the fastest way out and he informs me that it is a 6 km hike in the approve the direction we came i didn't be to do that. I would have pushed for a go from the man if he didn't seem desire such a large dick so there at the camp site team '4x4' waited about 1.5 hr pass before things get alil interesting. A line of 4x4's are crossing the river. 4 of them to be exact. The first 3 make it no problem then a stock jeep wrangler gets stuck deep with water pouring in they do all they can to get it out. With administer of effort they end up pulling it out with a broken draw used as a straight cable. Just as the jeep catches free it jumps forward and they all get together the success. Little to the jeep owner's (or anyone for that matter) knowledge as he jostled free the.
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