Cool wee ride tonight.. Pretty much all tracks out east closed (Godley, Captain, Snake, Greenwood, Britten) so we headed out that way anyway, figuring we'd piece something else together...
We parked on Nayland, and headed up onto The Zig Zag, but took Aratoni Track, first turning to the right. A bit of walking, but a fair bit of riding too, eventually up some steps and out onto Clifton Tce. Up this for a bit thinking to take the Zig Zag up to Panorama, but couldn't fathom the driveway entrance so continued on up Clifton til we hit The Frog Pond track. This was greasy in spots but has some new drainage, and we managed to avoid most of them quite well, then up the ridge up to the big pines on the corner. Stopped for a snack here and saw the ISS cruising by.
Next it was across the road up onto the climbing track which we took up to the Greenwood entrance. Rolled into this and across and around, all in good nick, not mucky at all, to the 4wd track (before the ruins). Here, we hung a right and rode up to the gun emplacements on the ridge which we toodled around for a minute or 5 before heading down the ridge on the 360 / CraterRim / Mt Pleasant Bluffs / Call-it-whatever-you-wanna-call-it Track. Fast and flowy for a bit, then steep as hell and techy as shit, with a stile in there somewhere for good measure. Across the top of Chalmers, over the next stile and on down between the macrocarpas sidling across the 360 walkaway section, all above Greenwood, across behind the bluffs they're messing with for the Evans Pass Rd, and then down the stupid-fast access track down the ridge towards the works buildings, to the end of Greenwood.
Through Evans Pass and decided against Godley Track (it being closed, and remembering how many bits I walked last time due to it being wet and closed) so stuck to the road, out, til we found a wee singletrack entrance which took us above the road for a bit around towards the 4wd track entrance. Climbed over the fence before this following a natural line across to the 4wd track then up this. And across the Godley track, on up the ridge (as per last time (too)) all the way to the top. Nice views up here. Here we were on the 360 track again. Excellent descent ensued back down to Evans Pass. (oh, while we were up here, we spotted some douchebag on Greenwood - much of his descending matched ours).
At Evans again we headed into Rapanui Bush, hung a right and teched through to the Scarborough Bluffs track again (the Greenwood-douchebag seemed to follow us - but he missed our right-hander). This time was excellent too, tho a bit wetter than last. Nelson cleaned the lot, whereas I dabbed in similar places to last time. Awesome descent, this track. At the road we decided it'd be mucky below, so we hit the road down, high speed, flinging / clearing the mud from the knobs and down into the fridge of the valleybottom, then back to the cars at a cruisy pace.
An interesting 15 kms, with 570 m climbed...
We parked on Nayland, and headed up onto The Zig Zag, but took Aratoni Track, first turning to the right. A bit of walking, but a fair bit of riding too, eventually up some steps and out onto Clifton Tce. Up this for a bit thinking to take the Zig Zag up to Panorama, but couldn't fathom the driveway entrance so continued on up Clifton til we hit The Frog Pond track. This was greasy in spots but has some new drainage, and we managed to avoid most of them quite well, then up the ridge up to the big pines on the corner. Stopped for a snack here and saw the ISS cruising by.
Next it was across the road up onto the climbing track which we took up to the Greenwood entrance. Rolled into this and across and around, all in good nick, not mucky at all, to the 4wd track (before the ruins). Here, we hung a right and rode up to the gun emplacements on the ridge which we toodled around for a minute or 5 before heading down the ridge on the 360 / CraterRim / Mt Pleasant Bluffs / Call-it-whatever-you-wanna-call-it Track. Fast and flowy for a bit, then steep as hell and techy as shit, with a stile in there somewhere for good measure. Across the top of Chalmers, over the next stile and on down between the macrocarpas sidling across the 360 walkaway section, all above Greenwood, across behind the bluffs they're messing with for the Evans Pass Rd, and then down the stupid-fast access track down the ridge towards the works buildings, to the end of Greenwood.
Through Evans Pass and decided against Godley Track (it being closed, and remembering how many bits I walked last time due to it being wet and closed) so stuck to the road, out, til we found a wee singletrack entrance which took us above the road for a bit around towards the 4wd track entrance. Climbed over the fence before this following a natural line across to the 4wd track then up this. And across the Godley track, on up the ridge (as per last time (too)) all the way to the top. Nice views up here. Here we were on the 360 track again. Excellent descent ensued back down to Evans Pass. (oh, while we were up here, we spotted some douchebag on Greenwood - much of his descending matched ours).
At Evans again we headed into Rapanui Bush, hung a right and teched through to the Scarborough Bluffs track again (the Greenwood-douchebag seemed to follow us - but he missed our right-hander). This time was excellent too, tho a bit wetter than last. Nelson cleaned the lot, whereas I dabbed in similar places to last time. Awesome descent, this track. At the road we decided it'd be mucky below, so we hit the road down, high speed, flinging / clearing the mud from the knobs and down into the fridge of the valleybottom, then back to the cars at a cruisy pace.
An interesting 15 kms, with 570 m climbed...
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