Yes. T'was a good'un. Up from home through Vic, climbing well but still gasping for air. Left up Worm then haul around the Traverse. Let a fair few through.
Chatted with a dude with a Vizler dog for ages at the top of Lavaflow. Then I rode round and hit the Four Pause down, popping good jumps.
Down the landingstrip section of trail and then peeled right and found my way into the Rocky Ridge route in. Still havent quite found the entire thing, but got more this time. Down, nearly hit the bigger jump up top, but didnt. Then bypassed all the wooden features lower down, but ended up on the line into a big rock jump part way down. Then finished on the final jump hit no problem, and left around up the new route we've found.
A zig and a zag near the fence saw me still have to push the bike up the rocks i could have ridden round. Up through the cattlestop and left across the paddock to the route we often take to the single track just below the rockyridge bit.
Up around and over dropping down to Old Skool. Down the steep rocky bluffy bits I came across a couple of girls looking at the big droppy descent. I came in and baulked, it looks way more heinous than the past, big wheel eating hole n all. The girl pointed out a side line, which I thought looked okay. A joke or two made about how embarrassing it would be if I crashed it. Rode it, with aplomb and they both cheered. Onwards down I bombed swooping it down through the rocks and off camber switchies, then into the Old Skool proper, hearing the girls above as I dropped in. Nice run through this, all the fun. Bomb bomb, spotted someone way below, thinking I probably wouldn't catch them, bombed a bunch more around down and he pulled over for me in the lower switchbacks. Out the finish and straight back into the climb up the valley.
Clamber clamber, dude on e bike motored past in the steepest bits. Stopped for a change and rest and snack at Hospital Corner. Then got riding up valley, through the gates, past the no bikes sign and the trail is tidy as, upgraded and easy. Still steep but not struggly tech anymore. Last bit is tho, then across the easy rolling front to the bottom of Brents (exit from Vic Park to Flow/Bridges etc). In here, then up the skidder trail next to Brents. Ugh, walked. Too steep. Phonecall from dad then riding up the rest, past the 40, up up around to the skidder.
Straight through, then down CAP this way hanging a right off that and out to 19th, down road, into funnest local, bomb swoop flow, then around, up, and fast down behind houses. Home.
Almost exactly 14 kms, with (surprise to me) 595 m climbed. Not bad.
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