Here’s a quick debrief on my Hunt 1000 experience (which I didn’t ride):
It looked hard. If you’re well prepared and fit as then you can ride like Lewis or Mikdee or JohnG or whatever. That’s fine. The main thing I think (I observed) was that if you wanna do it, you kinda need to do it at the 7 day pace. To go slower you’d have to carry a fair bit more, and that’d make it harder. For me, the 7 day route would be really hard, but I kinda think that with that camaraderie that the party team had, maybe I could pull it off.
Basically it looked like a really challenging ride, but I think my first idea to make it easier - take longer and carry more - probably just wouldn’t work.
Also I’d like to give big ups to those who bailed and didn’t finish the ride. That can be a confronting thing to do and I think it takes courage to give up. Good on you.
It’s only the cabramurra-omeo section that you need to go at a decent pace so that you don’t have to carry heaps otherwise even at a seven/eight day pace your hitting at least one town a day I think.
Fuckin eh! Absolutely every single person who started this ride crushed it. Hands down some of the hardest country Australia has to throw at you. Whether you made it 300 or 900 you had to kick some serious butt to get there.
