The Addo Extreme was one of those inspiring events that I started as a Radio Ham and will finish up as a competitor. The Addo Extreme is a trail run of note! 160Km for the crazy people, 42Km for the rest and some shorter runs too.
Now I never thought I’d like to enter this sort of event, but man – next year, Andrew ZS2G, Bev and I are going to enter the 42Km race. Ok, we will just “turbo-hike” it, but it is inspirational how these people just keep going.
Ok, back to the report on the event. We camped on a part of the reserve not even open to the public! an awesome experience with sunrise and sunset pics from the campsite – only a different direction from the tent! Stunning views and incredible quiet! Quiet even to the point that there were no spectators or loud music support stations! An absolute gem of a weekend!
The wind was terrible, but we survived by dropping the tent. The wind rocked the bakkie, bent the tent and totaled the Gazebo!
In all we camped from the Thursday afternoon through to the Sunday morning – all completely off grid and lekker!
For those of you with a good cheap internet connection, you can see a bunch of additional photos here.