I want to start with a moment. It was the end of a 70our hike. My legs felt like rubber and my skin had become one with my socks.I haven't seen a single patch of dry trail all day. And my raincoat was just for show at this point. Everything I had was soaked with one of Beijing's most relentless rainstorms in recent history.It was a Duke of Edinburgh's hike. It's one of those things you sign up thinking that it's going to be a fun little hike um away from school, from homework. However, I didn't go in there ...

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