8r4dsfeets Conquering fears atop a cliff. #hike

8r4dsfeets Camp feet. #hike

8r4dsfeets #waterfall #hike

8r4dsfeets #hike

8r4d Day one recap, part 3. We set up camp at the far end of the lake—our home base for the next 3 nights. #hike

8r4d Day one recap, part 2. The headwall involved free climbing with our heavy packs up a cliff face with rebar ladder rungs stuck in the rock. #hike

8r4d Day one recap, part 1. The first leg up to the falls was tough but not too bad. #hike

8r4d The worlds largest game store? We may have spent some money and bought a new #boardgame this evening.

8r4d Staging up for our hike and warming up the legs by walking around the market pondering all the #food that’s way too heavy to carry up a mountain.

8r4dsfeets So close yet so far.

castironguy After the #heritagefestival ends there’s almost always leftover batter. They can’t sell it nor return it, but they do their best to get it to a good home. Whoever will take a huge quantity of batter late at night and on short notice. Whatever is left, a few lucky volunteers may get a bucket to take home. Of course this then means breaking down 25 litres of batter into freezer bags and storing it for the winter, but better than it landing in a trash pile. #volunteering perks

8r4d Disaster! So the third day of the #heritagefestival ended up cancelled because a storm hit the site Sunday night and wrecked enough infrastructure—water, power, tents—that it was unsafe for the public. The city was in shock. This rarely happens. In fact I don’t ever remember a cancellation (except during the pandemic.) It was waiting on pins and needles all day to find out how we fared. But alas our crew finally got access late afternoon and tho the damage was minimal on our site, we still had our work cut out cleaning and tearing down the kitchen to wrap up for another year. #volunteering