Trailwalker: the slideshow!

Success

We are there!!!

Yeahhhhhhhhhhhhh

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The last few kilometers.

Special dedicace to our supporters following the blog, to our great support team who boosted us all the way and our dear sponsors.

Cp 9 - 88.7 km

CP8

Arrived at cp8 at 12:45, thank you to elodie, mouny, francois, guillaume, olivier, jp. Yeaah. 20 km to go

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Yeahhh, tai mo shan, checked. 25 km left to go. Walking towards CP8 to meet support and get it over with.

Caro and jen

Cp7

Checked. Caro and Jen are with us now. Yeahhh. 1:45 min adv.

Support waking team

Cp 6

Checked. Left it after breakfast and teeth brushing at 6:00 am. Thanks damien, julie and jerome. Sun is rising. Last but not least tricky part ahead, needle hill.

Cold..freezing

3:15 am

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2:30 am Exhausted and cold but ahead of time. We are walking with the support of fabien, gerald and paula. Joan is sleepwalking. It is tough.

walkers sleeping ahead

CP4

00:30 . At cp4. So windy on man on shan. Great to have Fabien and Gerald with us. Met with Paula and Ryan. Beacon hill we will beat you.

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9:30 pm. Man on shan,here we come. Walking time 10h30 min.

Cp3

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Night time lamp time.

Special to our families that follow all around the globe.

Cp 2

Arrived at checkpoint 2 after 5.5 hrs then 10 min breaks. there we meet surprise supporters Juliette, Guillaume and AntoIne. Everything is feeling good despite knee pain, neck pain and anxiety.
Serious hiking is now starting.
Looking fwd to yr support messages.

Support team, we are 45 min ahead of schedule.

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4 km to go to CP2. We are up and walking.

CP 1

Yeaah CP1 in 3.5 hrs!!!

To supporters at CP3, cover yourself,/lots of wind. Freeezing.

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190 to go! Changing to our team tshirt. perfect weather: sunny with a little wind.

Pre 100 km

Powergirls synchronization

SG ready to rumble

The four of us woke up and show up on time at the meeting point and we are all heading towards the starting points!!
Chloe has a very bad neck pain but she is still in and excited. We will make it.
Starting time: 11 am.

Glamour preparation

D-1' glamour preparation at the beautician so that we all have nice and red nails for trailwalker. It was also a great way to party for Joan s birthday. NOW we are ready.

Cloudy Hill and Pat Sin Lei

Saturday, October 31st

Team Members on call: Joan and Chloe
Walk with Ian's crew - Stages 8&9 of the Wilson Trail

elevation: +1,340m, same negative
length: 17K
time: 6h

We decided that the best way to celebrate Halloween was to join Ian's crew for a 'long and tough' hike, as advertised in Ian's invitation email...
We started from Tai Wo station (KCR East Railway) up to Cloudy Hill that we found quite similar than the hike up to Needle Hill. From the top of the mountain, there are beautiful landscapes on the right, and surreal views on Shenzhen skycrapers on the left...
We continued down to Hok Tau Reservoir.
A warning board announces the beginning of Pat Sin Lei, advising unexperienced hikers to find another way... But nobody looked too scared about it (halloween mood?) and the group happily took the path. The way is long and tough before actually reaching the 'Pat Sin Lei' or the 8 Immortals Range, named after the 8 hilltops to climb and rechristened 'the 6 virgins and the 2 bitches' by the group, who suffered the most on the 2 tricky last hilltops....
The hike offers sumptuous views over the Country side and the Chinese bay, and we can even catch sight of Tai Mo Shan (section 8 of Mac Lehose, the highest hill in HK).
We came back to civilization (= beer) down the 8 hilltops, at Luk Keng village, where it's easy to find food, drinks and transportation back to Central.

Conclusion: very good training hike, beautiful landscapes but don't go there if you're not well equiped!