Dropped H off to a birthday party and sleepover and headed to Halswell Quarry car park.
Headed up the valley and up onto C2, via the Download. Clamber clamber up through the trees, through the cattle stop into instant cattleshit. Avoiding the worst of it and then watching out for big cow-apples (and pancakes) on up Crocodile, ever climbing. Top of the road, and into the Low Road, bit of mucky flat bits to avoid, bailing out to the road at the lying down squared-off lampost. Up this last steep and over the gate into Siberia, finding a few wet puddles, but the rest of it nice. Bombed through the bends and down the last bit to the bottom. Decided here to try the new ziggy climb, Anne's Ascent or something, and gave up on it through sheer boredom after a few bends, bailing out to the main track and just powering up that instead of 20 times the distance going back and forth.
From the gate, headed down the singletrack, actually a really good run, until a jump that threw me off towards the bank, I just managed to pull it back under control before landing and landed awkwardly, kinda tweaking my back. Carried on down and then into the Crock. Stopped here for a moment, maybe a text? Then got going again, on down, pulling up left to C2 and straight into Murph's, bombing down this, lots of fun, then tootled through the mucky bottomlands and climbed up Upload, then into the Crocodile climb, clambering up this to the top and taking the Bypass track to the bridge in the valleybottom, and left up Gorge Rd, meandering up the valley til I found a midlevel track leading back down valley.
Down this, joined into one of the switchbacks on the Crock, climbed up from here to C2 and headed Murph's again, enjoying it just as much if not more than the first. At the mucky bottomlands again, I hung a right this time and around and up Upper Crust, which climbs from the jumps up through Murphs (near the top), topping out on C2. Headed down this to the wee bridge, and followed (pushing bike on back wheel), a track up the valley there, to see what I would see. Turned back from the top and rode and scooted down through the tech and long grass back to the trail. Then I took the downhill track (Mish-Mash) that starts just there, and bombed that down into the valley again, basically at the end of Murphs.
Around the muckybottomlands again and back up C2, to the wee dh track again, down it but slightly different line out onto hairpin of C2, back onto it and out the bottom again, this time to ride out the old entrance, and back down to the car, done.
Only 11.5kms, with 323m climbed.
Headed up the valley and up onto C2, via the Download. Clamber clamber up through the trees, through the cattle stop into instant cattleshit. Avoiding the worst of it and then watching out for big cow-apples (and pancakes) on up Crocodile, ever climbing. Top of the road, and into the Low Road, bit of mucky flat bits to avoid, bailing out to the road at the lying down squared-off lampost. Up this last steep and over the gate into Siberia, finding a few wet puddles, but the rest of it nice. Bombed through the bends and down the last bit to the bottom. Decided here to try the new ziggy climb, Anne's Ascent or something, and gave up on it through sheer boredom after a few bends, bailing out to the main track and just powering up that instead of 20 times the distance going back and forth.
From the gate, headed down the singletrack, actually a really good run, until a jump that threw me off towards the bank, I just managed to pull it back under control before landing and landed awkwardly, kinda tweaking my back. Carried on down and then into the Crock. Stopped here for a moment, maybe a text? Then got going again, on down, pulling up left to C2 and straight into Murph's, bombing down this, lots of fun, then tootled through the mucky bottomlands and climbed up Upload, then into the Crocodile climb, clambering up this to the top and taking the Bypass track to the bridge in the valleybottom, and left up Gorge Rd, meandering up the valley til I found a midlevel track leading back down valley.
Down this, joined into one of the switchbacks on the Crock, climbed up from here to C2 and headed Murph's again, enjoying it just as much if not more than the first. At the mucky bottomlands again, I hung a right this time and around and up Upper Crust, which climbs from the jumps up through Murphs (near the top), topping out on C2. Headed down this to the wee bridge, and followed (pushing bike on back wheel), a track up the valley there, to see what I would see. Turned back from the top and rode and scooted down through the tech and long grass back to the trail. Then I took the downhill track (Mish-Mash) that starts just there, and bombed that down into the valley again, basically at the end of Murphs.
Around the muckybottomlands again and back up C2, to the wee dh track again, down it but slightly different line out onto hairpin of C2, back onto it and out the bottom again, this time to ride out the old entrance, and back down to the car, done.
Only 11.5kms, with 323m climbed.
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