Cool ride tonight. O and me drove over to Nelson's and parked, and together we rode up Parklands, into the 2nd cul-de-sac and up the alleyway, onto Huntsbury, to the top. Bit of a grind up the gravel and singletrack and gravel, but made it to the top in one piece. O on the back of his win at the highschool races the day before.
Into Vernon and the first couple hundred metres we pulled over about 10 times for climbers, but from there down it was the bomb. Straight through the staring zombies at Crapaki-top and into Witch Hill, clambering through the technicalities and around the front. Down, across the road, over the gate and up the steeeeep dry grass farmtrack, over the fence, and up through the rocks to the top. Phew, most of the climbing done.
Picked our ways down, with O following us down the steepest most tricknical lines, and bailing off over one of the steepest cliffy sections... He was okay, and got straight back on, and we picked our way down the ridge. Awesome fun times.
O and Nelsie somewhere below me on the ridge here:
Down the final steeps, under the pylon over the gates and around into the forest. We dropped down into the jumpy trail, jump, followed by drop, followed be me nearly bollocking myself and nearly going over the bars stalling in the washed out corner. On down, pop over jump, around and down into drop through to berms and another jump to finish. Nice. Moseyed up to look at the Dreamtrack line - mental! Then off down below and out the bottom, and flashies on for the haul back around the roads back to Nelson's.
Excellent 14 kms, and 600 m climbed.
Into Vernon and the first couple hundred metres we pulled over about 10 times for climbers, but from there down it was the bomb. Straight through the staring zombies at Crapaki-top and into Witch Hill, clambering through the technicalities and around the front. Down, across the road, over the gate and up the steeeeep dry grass farmtrack, over the fence, and up through the rocks to the top. Phew, most of the climbing done.
Picked our ways down, with O following us down the steepest most tricknical lines, and bailing off over one of the steepest cliffy sections... He was okay, and got straight back on, and we picked our way down the ridge. Awesome fun times.
O and Nelsie somewhere below me on the ridge here:
Down the final steeps, under the pylon over the gates and around into the forest. We dropped down into the jumpy trail, jump, followed by drop, followed be me nearly bollocking myself and nearly going over the bars stalling in the washed out corner. On down, pop over jump, around and down into drop through to berms and another jump to finish. Nice. Moseyed up to look at the Dreamtrack line - mental! Then off down below and out the bottom, and flashies on for the haul back around the roads back to Nelson's.
Excellent 14 kms, and 600 m climbed.
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