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    SAFETY KIT

    Dec 18, 2016 5 minutes

    CHRIS CREWDSON has been running and cycling since he was a pimply 16-year-old testosterone-driven teenager with a Great Dane as his training companion. The pinnacle of his outdoor life (so far) is being part of the founding team to organise and take the Otter African Trail Run to its Grail of Trail status (p74).

    He has done 26 safety scouts of the Otter Trail, and more than 50 swims of Bloukrans River, in every condition imaginable.

    “The Otter has become a very happy stomping ground, along with being able to link an Otter scout onto a nonstop recce of the 65km Tsitsikamma Trail, making this a sublime 100km+ taste of both coastal and mountain terrain,” he says.

    Look out for the Tsistsikamma Ultra Trail in March 2017 and along with the Otter, two bucket list

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