Nice ride from Taylor's today. Dropped O off to do some work in the bach garden, and Nelson joined me for a ride.
We headed up the road and into the walkway, zigging and zagging up to the Godley Head Rd. Was steep and bloody hot and humid with a hazy overcast but sunshine too. Dry AF as well. I cleaned everything, but did have to stop a couple of times for breathers. From the road we headed up the usual 4wd track to the singletrack and decided to head back towards Evans Pass. Good bomb around this, down, passing 2 couples near the end. Then couldn't be arsed, in the heat, to ride the tech-rock back, so took the road back around to the climb, up this again, and a bit of a rest til just after the 2 couples had ridden past. Gave them a gap and then bombed it down to Livingston, passing them having a break before the last full tilt descent to the saddle.
Straight into the climb, moseying up and around. Nelson waiting for me at the top, as usual. Straight into the descent, bombing around and down to Breeze. Here, we headed up the trail above the road, taking the barely visible skinny track around the sidle. Long, dry grass, but good purchase under-tread. Onto the emplacement, then up onto Breeze Bay track. No walkers onboard, so a good hoof around, pea-gravel proving interesting on off camber corners. Back into the skinny climb and sidle again, this time more visible thanks to our previous tracks. Then a super fast bomb down to the Godley carpark, where we found snacking the 2 couples from previous.
Across onto the below-road mtb track, bombing around back to Breeze Col, then up the Godley singletrack climbing to the cattlestop, then over the fence (ants on my hands from the post) and down to the top entrance to Anaconda. Swoop swoop, bomb bomb, into the old, more swoop, yumps and bombing, into the tail and fang wallop bomb to the bottom, spectacular jumps over the final grate.
Final road climb back up to the cars, and a good ride done. A grand but sweaty 17 kms, with a bloody good 730 m climbed.
We headed up the road and into the walkway, zigging and zagging up to the Godley Head Rd. Was steep and bloody hot and humid with a hazy overcast but sunshine too. Dry AF as well. I cleaned everything, but did have to stop a couple of times for breathers. From the road we headed up the usual 4wd track to the singletrack and decided to head back towards Evans Pass. Good bomb around this, down, passing 2 couples near the end. Then couldn't be arsed, in the heat, to ride the tech-rock back, so took the road back around to the climb, up this again, and a bit of a rest til just after the 2 couples had ridden past. Gave them a gap and then bombed it down to Livingston, passing them having a break before the last full tilt descent to the saddle.
Straight into the climb, moseying up and around. Nelson waiting for me at the top, as usual. Straight into the descent, bombing around and down to Breeze. Here, we headed up the trail above the road, taking the barely visible skinny track around the sidle. Long, dry grass, but good purchase under-tread. Onto the emplacement, then up onto Breeze Bay track. No walkers onboard, so a good hoof around, pea-gravel proving interesting on off camber corners. Back into the skinny climb and sidle again, this time more visible thanks to our previous tracks. Then a super fast bomb down to the Godley carpark, where we found snacking the 2 couples from previous.
Across onto the below-road mtb track, bombing around back to Breeze Col, then up the Godley singletrack climbing to the cattlestop, then over the fence (ants on my hands from the post) and down to the top entrance to Anaconda. Swoop swoop, bomb bomb, into the old, more swoop, yumps and bombing, into the tail and fang wallop bomb to the bottom, spectacular jumps over the final grate.
Final road climb back up to the cars, and a good ride done. A grand but sweaty 17 kms, with a bloody good 730 m climbed.
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