Out for round two. Headed down the street and around thru town, getting lots of stares (freak on a fatbike!) and headed around Jacks Pass Rd and up past the camp in Chatterton Rd, up the valley to the walkway and up this for a ways (further than memory served), then hung a right on the singletrack that obviously doesn't get much use at all, climbing and sidling up to cross the 4wd track, onto the pylon access track up the steep under the pylon. Cleaned all the steep here (first time in years) then stopped for a very well earned breather at the peak point between two trees (that are much bigger than they were last time I was here (3 years ago)). After the rest, it was into the down, and a nice sidle across and then past the beehives and up to Clarence Valley Rd, and the water tank. A dad and his teenage son were just about to drop into Tank Track. They offered me the go, but I stopped for a drink and let them get ahead.
Into Tank, lovely flight down this, and about halfway down I found I'd caught up to the dad, reeled him in and he pulled up to let me past. Powered into the climb and out to the end of the track. Decided on the Yankee, so headed across to and into it, climbing in the nicely grown young pines across and back and then into the larch gully and out onto the big open area.
Photo op here (for the MMR) before hitting up the final bit of climb on singletrack and then the descent. Decent, as. Nice now, what was a pain in the ass in the past was really fun again, almost like old times (but not quite). Went on for ages, then then I was out the end. Hit up Swamp, climbing to it's top (after first telling some random couple the climb wasn't too bad) and then stopped and chatted to some guy at the top of Swoop.
Off down Swoop, chasing down a couple, getting past them both and flying down the bottom end, very splecky on one section (of melted frost). Then it was similar to yesterday, back into Timberlands, just taking my time on the climbing, to the saddle, giving some germans some directions (they were impressed with the fatty), and then up onto Jolliffe Saddle track, climbing more and cleaning the top corner again. Bit of a rest here at the top this time, and into the downwards facing dog.
Across the bridge, and into Bigfoot climb again, climb climb climb, blitzing the downhill, 2nd time in 2 days really paying off on the smoothness and flow, out the bottom, and down the road a little then straight onto Mach 1 down and climbing and descending, and repeat. Fun! Finally, onto Camp track, thinking about doing the green trail that winds it's way around on the flat in here, but taking a call from T saying she was waiting to go to the pool, so... Straight back to base I headed, via the Western Link Track, and through the parklands and up over the hill for the final blast down to the house.
Hour and a half this time, nearly twice the distance to yesterday, 19kms on the dot, and 475 m climbed.
Off down Swoop, chasing down a couple, getting past them both and flying down the bottom end, very splecky on one section (of melted frost). Then it was similar to yesterday, back into Timberlands, just taking my time on the climbing, to the saddle, giving some germans some directions (they were impressed with the fatty), and then up onto Jolliffe Saddle track, climbing more and cleaning the top corner again. Bit of a rest here at the top this time, and into the downwards facing dog.
Across the bridge, and into Bigfoot climb again, climb climb climb, blitzing the downhill, 2nd time in 2 days really paying off on the smoothness and flow, out the bottom, and down the road a little then straight onto Mach 1 down and climbing and descending, and repeat. Fun! Finally, onto Camp track, thinking about doing the green trail that winds it's way around on the flat in here, but taking a call from T saying she was waiting to go to the pool, so... Straight back to base I headed, via the Western Link Track, and through the parklands and up over the hill for the final blast down to the house.
Hour and a half this time, nearly twice the distance to yesterday, 19kms on the dot, and 475 m climbed.
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