X Lakes Winter poster

After the wildly successful inaugural X Lakes Summer last year, I am super excited that plans for X Lakes Winter are under way! Details are now available, with the Winter Edition looking similar to the Summer Edition. This will be an amazing event, so get your toys ready, find a partner — whatever it takes for you to enjoy this slice of multisport heaven on the Garden Route!

X Lakes Winter posterWhere: Wilderness
When: 13 July 2013
Cost: R400 solo | R500 team
Websitewww.chaingangevents.co.za
FacebookChain-Gang-Events
Twitter: @ChainGangEvents

The details of the event have been announced. It looks like the Winter Edition will be fairly similar to the Summer Edition, but dropping the first MTB stage from George to Wilderness, and instead increasing the remaining two MTB legs. The paddle legs remain the same.

# Leg Mode Distance
1 Wilderness to Island Lake Paddle 9.2
2 Island Lake to Pine Lake Marina Bike 20
3 Pine Lake Marina to Hoogekraal Paddle 9.8
4 Hoogekraal to Old Drift Bike 49
5 Old Drift to Thesen Island Paddle 11.0

I am pleased to see that the organisers are sticking to the boat-swapping rules which will allow better boat choices for each leg: I am leaning towards using a K1 on the first leg, and a surfski on the remaining boat legs.

The date is the weekend after the annual Knysna Oyster Festival (29 June — 06 July 2013), so the Garden Route is most definitely the sporting destination for winter!

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By David

Outdoor adventure enthusiast living on the Garden Route.

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