Brief out and back tonight with a flat.
Uphill on the Jeht, clambering over 19th and through skidder past a bunch of riders into the grunty climb. I could see the pollen under the lights up here, and worse still up top.
Down Thompson's #1 and back up the road, then dropped down around the jumpies and up the Worm to hit the Traverse. Saw a light coming my way further round so I stopped and waited at the start for him to roll through, then got going. Quite windy, blustery. Met a couple of lights at the Sugarloaf saddle then no one else for ages. Got to top of Huntsbury DH and turned and dived in. One harsh smack on the rear wheel in the top rocks making me think, "ouch, that'll be a flat" but then didn't seem to be until I landed the first jump and realised. Stopped on the side and got to work, inserting my spare tube. Down the rest, baulking the jump at the bottom, then back up the gravelly road to the top. Met a dh-graveller on his way down.
Contemplation of routes from here, decided over the top of Scott's. Nice climb in the trees then a fun baff down to the col, then into the next where I met a runner on my climb. Walked the couple of steps bits and then nice rolling the rest, lovely section of semi-tech singletrack in here. Boffed off down to the next saddle and crossed over the fence back onto the Traverse. Nice roll around here back into Vic, over the jumpies, the first section of Brakefree then out to the rocks and gums, all the way down, forgetting about the tree across the lower bit before skidder. Then down, into the To CAP (shortcut entrance) and across the old to 19th, below road from here, into Tawhairanui across to DogparkCarpArk then greasey drop down through here, all the way to H'Ell and clamber clamber back up to road to home. Nice.
A pollen-moted 11.3 kms and 400 m climbed
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