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Re: international training
Board: State: North Carolina
Reply to: #2465 by Boxing Bee Bunch
Mar 1, 2005 11:04am
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I was only in town for USAirways international training (which is an all day thing) and I didn't think I would get time for letterboxing. I got out of class an hour early and had my Mom drive me down to McDowell so I could get the boxes. I was not dressed for hiking! (I was wearing a skirt and nice shoes). It probably would have been hilarious to see me tramping about the trail after those boxes!! I had a ton of red clay mud all over my shoes by the time I was done and I ended up hoofing it barefoot back along the handicapped access trail and the road to the Nature Center!! It took quite a while to clean my shoes! I was also racing against the sun as it was setting and my Mom was convinced that we were going to be stuck inside the park after "dusk"!

We had dinner at Sonny's BBQ on Tivola before she took me back to the airport.


-Amanda
Re: international training
Board: State: North Carolina
Reply to: #2483 by Amanda from Seattle
Mar 1, 2005 1:30pm
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Sounds like you had quite a time! The red clay here is a mess to clean up! I once got locked into Bond Park in Raleigh looking for the Bond, Fred Bond series. It taught me to park outside the park gates if I were to be boxing in a race against daylight. Hope the stamp was worth it! Maybe you should consider bringing a change of shoes with you at all times, LOL.
Re: McDowell LBs and Clay
Board: State: North Carolina
Reply to: #2490 by Penguin Patrol
Mar 2, 2005 7:47am
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We can vouch for the level of clay on your shoes. We visited the park a couple of days after heavy rains as well and felt like we were carrying bricks on the soles of our shoes. If you can picture it we were actually pushing our son in a jogging stroller through all of the trails for box 1 & 2. Needless to say, not an easy task.

BBB
Re: McDowell LBs and Clay
Board: State: North Carolina
Reply to: #2527 by Boxing Bee Bunch
Mar 2, 2005 9:41am
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I can't image a stroller on that Ridge Trail! I was sliding down the side of the gully as it was!! I consider myself lucky that I didn't slide down and really get clay everywhere. I was so happy to get back to that asphalt on the handicapped access trail. That's when I took my shoes off and started the cleaning process. I was still scraping clay off of them in the restroom at Sonny's BBQ!

-Amanda