2011-04-02 19:18:21 UTC
GDAS-MOIH
Player: Haraldpoiss
Team: FinEst Dashers
GDAS-MOIH is near Rahuste, Estonia.
> Date, Points, TeamPoints, Dashpoint, Country, State, Lat, Lon, Distance
2011-04-02, 3, 3, GDAS-MOIH, Estonia, , 58.0953, 22.1135, 95
New extreme south visit this year for Estonia: GDAS-MOIH
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Number of previous hunts by Haraldpoiss: 16
EXTREME-EXTREME...
It was in the middle of Baltic Sea!!! This is not a joke!!
So I parked my car in Rahuste village and started walking over pastures. There
was open landscape, but it was quite foggy, which comfortably covered my
suspicious activity. After few hundred meters I met a sign saying "Rahuste
nature reserve". Soon I reached to the sea and continued on ice, until... the
ice ended and there was open sea ahead!! Distance to the dashpoint was still
about a kilometer, so I was standing there and thinking what to do. As the
water was only 20cm deep, I decided to step in. After few steps I felt that my
right foot is getting wet, and discovered that my right rubber boot is broken.
A bad surprise, but whatever, I decided to ignore it and go on. After several
meters there came a point where the sea was about to come over the edge of the
boots. I was about to turn around, but... "If my right foot is wet, why can't
my both feet be wet??" flashed a thought in my head. And on I went.
So I stepped few hundred meters through the cold sea, which in the deepest
point reached up to knee. After some time I reached to the shore-ice of islet
Ooslalaid. I emptied my boots of salty water, wrested dry the socks and walked
over the islet toward the destination. There was a fire-place on the islet and
an old rusty fridge with a beer bottle inside!!! And some other garbage... it's
supposed to be a nature reserve, but...
The closest place to the dashpoint on "dry land" was 95m away. Actually it was
just ice on and between some big stones there, waves glimpsing it hungrily. I
decided not to make it to zero, because it would have meant an additional cold
sea-walk. On the way back through the sea I managed to deviate from the right
way and step in to a place, where water was up to my balls.
From that day there ain't cold water for me in this world and I need some
liquid nitrogen if I want to cool down myself;)
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A cold beer, anyone?
From that stone it was 95m.
Fireplace on Ooslalaid
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