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Your Reporting Team

John-Michael Flynn / 29.04.2005

In the wild country of Australia’s far South-West, the four race X-Adventure Raid World Cup series begins, with what by Adventure Racing’s extreme standards is seen as something of a sprint.

Twenty-six teams are set to compete over a 267km course, riding, trekking, climbing and canoeing through magnificent old growth forests, spectacular inlets, rugged coastline and scrub covered ranges in a test of speed and skill.

Capturing the action along the way SleepMonsters has assembled a journalistic/photographic team well adept at survival in the rugged Australian outdoors.

Specialist outdoor photographer Mark Watson, fast earning a reputation as one of the world’s leading extreme sport snappers, will be joined on the journey by award winning journalist John-Michael Flynn, who brings to the coverage a lifetime of experience in epic mountain biking, and an insatiable love of adventure sport.

We can only hope the nav skills of our intrepid team are good enough to find access points en-route, so SleepMonsters readers can share the excitement, triumph and despair of the X-Adventure Raid World Cup on the World Wide Web.

Race Eve. Denmark, Western Australia. 29/4/2005

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