Trailwalker 2009 ??!

As soon as a mother holds her new-born child in her arms, her body immediately starts pumping out endorphins into her bloodstream at an unparalleled rate – this is her own body duplicitously encouraging her to forget all about the unbelievable agony and pain she’s juts been through, and concentrate on just having more babies [...]

Sea to Peak

Whether you think Oxfam Trailwalker Japan is getting easier or not, I was thinking recently about what would be the ultimate hiking weekend in Japan – something different that I’d not heard of anyone doing before.

Here it is: Sea to Peak. My personal challenge for 2009 – I’m going to hike from sea-level in [...]

2009 Oxfam Trailwalkers – now as easy as Hong Kong ?

There is another alteration to the 2009 course posted this month. The infamous checkpoint 7 to checkpoint 8 stage has been revised :

The 2009 Oxfam Trailwalker – Might as well be in Holland

Previously this stage was a full on vertical assault necessitating the use of fixed ropes ( not joking ). [...]