Bobby Behan and myself high up on Day 1.
Photo’s are by Conrad himself. A talent in more ways than one… Thanks for the visuals and memories Stoltz. For more of his artistic side, view his Flickr page.

It started as novel fog, then to humorous drizzle, and eventually (for two thirds of stage3) bucketting rain like in Forest Gump’s Vietnam - Rain from above, sideways rain, rain from below… Puddles of water deep enough to swollow half the bike.
It become primative survival racing the freeze and sense of humour failure in [...]

Thankfully my gifted partner has been wrestling a bug somewhere in his digestive track. The bug won. Big up to it. Meant the youngster couldn’t teach me a school boy lesson in the hurt box on a day that could easily have transported one’s enthusiasm to “that deep dark place” with all it’s climbing. Joking [...]