Hill Climb Challenge 2024

Around 150 pax from the Greater Carpex region participated in the 2024 Hill Climb Challenge. We ran, rucked, or walked a total of 5,300+ miles worth of hills, which would be enough to walk both from coast-to-coast and north-to-south across the USA. Which, come to think of it, might be the natural answer to people who are already asking, “What’s next?” The event kicked off with a bang at midnight of February 10th, when several Peak City pax completed a ruck of Umstead, and continued apace until closing with the 4th Annual Duck Donuts Dash, hosted by South Cary on February 24th. [Read More]

Raiders of the Locked Park

The evening AO, nearly killed by covid and the WFH trend, yet proves oddly resilient, mutating in unexpected ways. Just like the park rangers thought they could kick us out of ANP, the evening AO, cockroach-like, lives on. If disgusting bug metaphors and existential F3 AO musings aren’t your thing, you clearly haven’t read enough backblasts. And so, YHC presents you with this. Warmup So many people with dogs, I changed my initial plan to run down the hill and around to bear crawl bridge. [Read More]