The Highland Enduro

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To get up on Sunday morning wasn't so easy. When I opened my eyes and looked above me, all I could see was ice. Brrrr....who had this idea ??? Now I knew, why peoples sometimes give us funny looks. It must be tattooed across our foreheads, that we are crazy.... Anyway, up up and away. I could hear that Andy and Tony were also awake, so I got dressed and started to cook my breakfast. After we had eaten and a view cups of coffee later, we packed away all our gear and were ready for the last hill. By now it started to snow again.
On the CB we could hear that Brian suggested one should concentrate rather to get down from the hills, because he wanted all the teams back at the startingpoint around 1400 hours. We radioed to him, that we would like to give it a go to reach No. 3 but if we could see, that we make no or only little progress, that we will turn around and head for the meetingpoint. He agreed and of we went. By now it was about 0930. Again we walked, looked about 2 to 300 metres ahead of the cars, decided were to drive and made our way up the hill. Apart from one little climb, we drove all the way and found out pretty quick that No. 3 was the easiest of them all. At 1135 we reached the final destination.

Final comments:

• I am a keen offroader and went to many event such as European Jeep® Jamboree, WARN Challenges, Bulldog Trophy's, Euro Challenge etc... but this event was really something special. Even if Brian Hartley is doing it again next year, it will never be the same. Maybe there is no snow - you definitely can't organise that one - A lot of things might or will be different. I can't explain what made this event so special for me. It must have been the nice company. - That's it. -
  Special thanks to Tony and Andy, to allow me to team up with them. I hope we can do that again. And one thing nobody can take away from us - we were there first - WERE NO ONE WAS BEFORE -