Nelsie and me met at Scumnervale relatively early and rode down via the crazy-parasailers' (we saw them later) landingstrip, to, then up, the Captain. It was tough, overgrown and steep, greasy af and tricksy too all the way up through the forested bit. Once above that it was drier, but ffs people have obvs been riding the crap out of it whilst it's been wet in winter so the ruts are deep - same as Godley...
From Evans headed along the Godley Rd, encountering car after car (of mostly 2 girls - tho one mentally deficient moron in an Evo) parked, watching the sunsets... Headed up the farm track to the main Godley, cloying grass and heaps of new lambs abounding. Bombed, then, down to Livingston, ruts and mums with lambs making it rather interesting, and lo the fences / cattlestops have all been re-arranged. Climbed up towards Breeze to the high point like back on the longest night (tho that time we dropped into Taylors).
Back down to Livingston and Nelson turned up the face, steep! Bit of walking for me, where he cleaned the whole damned thing! Over the fence and we followed the walkway sidling ever up and around til nearly able to see into Lyttleton, basically we were just over the fence from the quarry, where we headed up skirting along the fenceline around the top of the quarry to the highest point then down through the gate and back down the long ridge (through mums and lambs) to the main track again. Took this back to Evans, pinging and flowing through the bony rocks.
Back at Evans, we headed into Rapanui Bush, sweet wee section of singletrack seeming longer than usual, then around it's tight corners and steps and out onto the Scarborough Bluffs track. Super techy tricksy fun, meandering along above the road, challenges thrown at you constantly and lots of exposure. Eventually crossed the road, dropping down to bottom of the Captain, and back to the cars..
A abundance of up, 13.7 km with 560 m climbed
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