We all arrived
at the scout hall at 12:45pm on the 20th of September 2008 and put
the bikes in the trailer and
organised the traveling arrangements. When we got to Cowwarr we unloaded
and started the ride to Lake Glenmaggie.
Some scouts had
some small bike problems and had to adjust their bikes, we had some small rain
showers and a bit of wind. About 5:30pm we arrived at the campsite at the lake
after 22 km of riding.
In the evening we made more bike
adjustments, and then rode around the campsite and in the water, some of the
scouts were happy to have a warm shower.
We got up at
6:00am and had breakfast, packed up and left early at 7:30am heading off to
Maffra.
At the start, there were some hills, then
it was quite flat and easy to ride on, the weather was nice but it got a bit
too warm in the afternoon.
At
11:00am we arrived in Maffra after around 35 km of riding. We had lunch at
12:20pm before having a look at the car museum. Then we headed back towards
Cowwarr.
It
was very hot so we had a few rests on the way and some scouts covered their
head in water.
About 3:45 we were 4-5 km from
Cowwarr and some scouts were exhausted the parents picked us up at the corner
of Foxes Rd, as Käfer was too impatient to wait for 3 scouts with energy to finish.
There were 8
scouts and 2 supporting leaders. All together we did 91km we rounded this of to
25km in our books.
I’d like to
thank Tom for helping organise the hike, the leaders, Andrew and Käfer, for
making it possible and to all the parents who helped out with transporting
scouts and their gear.
By Angu
