What a ride... Journeyed out to Broken River in Nelson's wee Clarion-Vitz and headed around the Sidle73 to the CV road, climbing off up this. Long haul up, with pursuit, two guys on our tails most of the way. We seemed to drop them towards the top.
Nice long rest at the skifield and they arrived, a son in his 20s(?) and his dad on a rigid singlespeed. Nice! They took off ahead of us on the Edge, but we caught them up sooner than we should have given the lead we gave them. The dad first and then found his boy a long way further on waiting for him... the screes were slightly nerve wracking but rideable (except for a tiny gulch on the last one (for me) and sooner than expected it was over. Time for the climb of the Ante-luge. Ugh. I walked a bunch more than I ever used to. Not sure why, (writing this long time after the fact so cant remember exactly why I wasn't feeling strong).
Rest at the top of the Luge and then into it. Nice run down this, good rooty bomb - again, different from memory. Nice long enjoyable bomb.
Next up, the climbing for the Dicks On DH. Hot work, dropped over the first bit of ridge (rather than up the top, which we'd forgotten about) then in for a jumpy cambered crazy shot down. Nelson lost it after one of the jumps giving me the lead for a bit. I let him by as we headed into to the beech and we climbed briefly before dropping down through the scrubby section. Some guts and ruts in here including wet muddy bits (where everything else was dry). Down to the road fence. Following along the singletrack to the gate then onto the road for the final push along and down to the car.
Routed, 19.5 kms with 840 climbed...
Scoffed a nice healthy feed (by Nelson and Kirsty) here then drove back towards Cheeseman.
Up the Cheesy Rd parking at the bottom end of the Cheesy DH / Cockayne (cocaine) Alley. Up the road, past the two other trails up here and super steep and long up to the corner we head across from. I had to walk, my legs were just toast. But, got there in the end, and across the traverse track for a while before a fun open frostlands roll down to the top of the forest. In here it got steep and fun. Super rooty. Would be hell in the wet. Loads of fun that just kept coming and coming. Eventually, we popped out at the road and were like, wow!
Coked out, 6.88 kms with only a 440m climb.
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