Feedback: Saturday 24th September: Newland Forest Ramble

Gaeleen's report-back on last Saturday's sortie: It was definitely a ‘team’ effort this morning.  Veronica was able to instruct Darryl where to lead the group, I stayed in the middle acting as co-ordinator and Neil and Sam were the sweeps.  

We decided not to repeat our mistakes on the previous run in the area where we spit up into smaller ‘lost’ groups, and we regrouped often and kept it as a pack run rather than splitting into 2 groups.   After a lot of hill walking, we decided to carry on with the walking and take the steps up to below King’s blockhouse from the contour path.  From there it was the same as Leg 2 of The Table Mountain Challenge – a bit too soon after the race for some of us!  We turned down at Fernwood buttress – rather than tackling more steps, and made our way back to the cars. A lovely run of 11 km.

We had a big group of 34 altogether which included a number of newbies with us, so hope they will be back.

Gaeleen

 Congratulations to Neil and Veronica who have now competed 20 sorties with our group and to Piero who has done 10 and now joins the Decurions

A big thank you to Gaeleen who stepped in as organizer at the last moment  and to Sam and Alan who sent me photographs of the run which I have posted here

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