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Posted in Uncategorized on Jan 31st, 2006
By text from the Artic;Finished first day of 30k breaking a trail through some woods up hill 2 flat plains with a low, barely there orange sun. Bright and warm one minute then windy snowy freezing the next. Goggles steamed up and then froze. Got off 2 a less than professional start having run around [...]
Posted in stuff4sam on Jan 30th, 2006
Well, Henny appears to have survived the first day handling sled and huskies, even if the temperature isn’t quite what she’d prefer. At least they’re still all together, and since she didn’t say anything about being lost in the wilderness, I’m assuming the rest of the sledging team are there too. Hopefully, they’ve [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jan 30th, 2006
Well, we know Henny made it to the airport ‘cos she texted to say meeting everyone in the group was like the first episode of Big Brother. Considering the success of the last Essex girl in BB, we can take that as an auspicious sign.
Henny should now be in far north of Norway having met [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jan 29th, 2006
Happy Chinese new year, which also happens to be year of the dog. So I’m packed, dressed in 4 layers of thermals (and that’s just for this country) and ready to hit the Arctic to hang out with huskies armed with a hip flask and a plastic, non-magnetic compass as a talisman.
Hopefully they don’t take [...]
Only a few days to go, and another 1k, before I hit the Arctic to raise money for a friend’s 18 month year old son, Sam. Find out more at JustGiving
