Beijing and the Grrrrreat motherfunkin' wall..

Trip Start Aug 13, 2007
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Trip End Aug 13, 2008


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Sunday, September 9, 2007

the wall, what a wall.. fook know's how they built that thing and soooo big, it's in the middle of no where, on a monsterous ridge, >50% gradients on either side in some places.  I only did a 10k chuck of it up near Simatai, but that took us just under 4hrs walk, crawl, sit, climb and backdown. and we finished near the front of our tour pack.. Even the easy bits you had to watch your footing.. but the harder chucks where stairs made up of 1 tiny brick deep and 3/4 high, almost ladder like with 10/15 feet drops to greet people lacking the right grip!

The daily amusement made by the local touts of these mad westerns clambering over this eye-sore that until recently was left to decay must be legendary, they must chuckle their-selves to sleep everynight with the stories. At each tower little old ladies (who have also climb the wall in a more managed way than any of the able-bodied youngster touring it) shove bottles of ice water to taught you into releasing the 10y that would extinguish the dry mouths and cool the aggravated body.. total madness, it's like a marathon, but you have to stop and buy water half way through!

still, a little bit of haggling is always a excellent way to distract your mind from the pains of the body..

and yes, I reeeeallly do need to lose some weight! lol
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