Everywhere where you could look, there were summits of around 200 metres’ relative height and the horizon was bordered from each side by high mountain slopes. There was still hope, though, that the map was laid somewhere in between the mountains, but this hope failed. In case of the optimal track, the sum of the metres of ascent was at least 500 metres, which was already 2 times more than what I could endure. 
In reality, I ascended over 650 metres because when taking those ascents, my pulse went too high and took away my perception of height and distance when moving in the thicket on the slopes. 
No 172 - Kalle. Photo by Lee (HL1DK)Because of the false estimation of location I gained lots of additional meters of ascent and waste of time and then also some choices of track that proved to generate additional meters of ascent.
No 172 - Kalle. Photo by Lee (HL1DK)The latter decisions were in fact partially due to poor audibility of the ‘foxes’ that forced me to seek areas of better propagation but as it became clear in the finish, the poor audibility was due to wrong earmuffs. Incredible that the mountains had had such a bad impact on my transmitter set. I wasn’t quite prepared for this. Eventually I understood that it was more reasonable rather to leave one fox in the forest than to risk again with failing the check time and to be satisfied with half the baranka in the final protocol instead of the full baranka. Kalle managed to get in difficult conditions the 15th place in M40 class and Andres had to agree with a baranka this time because he himself couldn’t understand, what he had done before the last fox on the top of the mountain.
In the finish, I made gadget business with Velikanov and obtained another 3.5MHz transmitter that he had left and would have been taken by Moldavians and I brought it to Estonia.
After the competition we went quickly to the hotel and from there by a hotel transfer to Seoul. I had the goal of visiting the local electronic market where the prices were said to be even more favourable than in Japan. I noticed quite a many things there, for example video cameras 50% cheaper than in Estonia (the same models of course) and as the problem of backing up the trip photos arose due to the large memory card, then I bought a nearly 320 GB pocket USB hard disk (2,5“), that cost some 110 000 Won.
On our way back we stepped on the first taxi at hand and asked to drive us to the hotel. During the conversation that was conducted in sign language, the guy once showed three fingers and we interpreted this as denoting 3 passengers. Later when he didn’t start the taximeter, it came out that he had meant 30 000 Wons. After futile bargaining we agreed with the situation and let the guy move us to the hotel for such a sum. We learnt of this and on Sunday we were already smarter and we managed to catch a taxi that took us for a drive for 20 000 Wons. Now it became clear why tourists are advised not to take taxis on their own in Korea. As you remember, the organisers had managed to call us a taxi that covered the same distance for 9000 Wons...
At least we reached the hotel by the time of closure ceremony. At the closure we were given a pie, the contents of which were made of… rice. I had never before tasted anything like that.
The results ( Source: http://www.2008ardf.org/results-80m.htm ):
M21
33. Tarmo Gede EST 126'56 5 ( 0,5 Баранки - "0,5 of zero")
M40
15. Kalle Kuusik EST 94'11 5
aL. Andres Viira EST 157'30 5 ( Баранка - "zero")
Since in order to get a team account, 2 results must fit in the time limit, we didn’t get a team credit and we hadn’t had an obligation to acquire this, either.
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