Met for the 8.50am sailing to the Harbour of Diamonds. I arrived to find the Bush team and Pete already on the wharf, then Nelson and Kirsty rolled up once we were on board.
From DH we headed up and proceeded around the road. At Whero St I said, "lets go up to the high road" (not knowing that Whero was a dead end, but then discovering at the top a nice singletrack that led all the way up. Nelson and Kirsty disappeared. She'd stopped to delaminate and when they got going again couldn't figure out where we'd gone... ooops. Never de-group guys. Pete jetted down, couldn't see them, jetted back up and we proceeded around Bay View, steep down followed by bloody steep up that nearly killed me given my Troll gearing. Up under Elaine's house and then it was mostly down from there, down into that nice Hunter Reserve valley, short climb then bombing down down down, Pete and me (J9 taking it easy and Steve sticking with her) to the main road and around to Andersons to regroup.
Nelson and Kirsty turned up with the Bushes again and we all rode together up over Andersons', fast bomb down the last with Pete in the lead, onto the main road and into Orton Bradley. The planting was just off the main route in after the tollbooth, off up to the left on a very muddy (to start with) track through oaky forest out to some farm country - a small gully being fenced around a creek. Chucked a bunch of trees in the ground meeting some nice people, then back to the School Room and a cuppa then back on the road again.
Around the road and a steady pace, Pete and me out in the lead. Above the yacht club we took the wee walk track drop down and up then steps and stopped for a regroup. Then climb climb climb around and some nice downs back to DH, getting down to the cafe just before the 12 o'clock ferry was ready to leave, Bushes and Pete bombed and caught it while I waited for Nelson and Kirsty and we caught the half hour later one, 12.30.
Forgot to start the MMR til we were up top of the Whero singletrack, about 1km in and 120m alt, but the rest of it was 11.85 kms over 270m climbed (so, total 13 kms, 390 up). (mmr website playing up at this point)
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