Wednesday Ups and downs in Worsle's Playpen

Sweet ride with Nelson tonight.  Parked up top of Worsley's Rd, and straight into it, into the singletrack in the trees and a bit of a look around below the trail where there's a massive mad jump, and a few sections of berms and more jumps, none of it our style really.  Headed up an old 4wd trail in here and spat out at the junction with the historic board ride corner.  Out onto the main drag, we chuffed up here.  Nelson was very kind to me and stayed in a nice slow gear and i managed to stay on his tail the whole way up, sweating like a pig in the very muggy conditions.  Took the steep to BLine and zipped off down the left hand 'new' line, Nelson in the lead, me hard on his tail, following him over every jump, and finding my tires slipping strangely in corners and on rocks.  Into Fight Club and i stopped and released the 'town' pressure i'd put in to ride to work on, and we continued our merry way down, swooping and popping and sidling and offcambering our ways down all the way out to where the deep deep dust was those weeks back.  Nicely solidified now, and a good trail worn into it, we climbed on up and decided, upon looking out over the logging in the valley, that we'd get out of there now, so, at the junction point we headed off down what's now known as Dave's Trail, or as i've called it ACJoint...

Excellent run down this steep wee bugger.  Cleaned it all, bar one slight bail just after the whoopdy U drop, but otherwise, all good, even the section entering the final chute.  Climb out was okay, til we got into the bulldozer track, which was just as steep as the old trail, but a bit rougher and open.  They've felled down to below where our cool rockbridge was, alas, its now buried in loess.  About there, one of these days, i'm gonna get in there and make a sidling trail back towards the descent, zigging and zagging a couple times back up to the route out...

Dragged ourselves back up to The Junction, and had a bit of a snack then headed off back up the main drag, mingling with a good sized group of guys, one of whom i stuck behind for a bit, while Nelson hauled ass off ahead of all of them.  Got past the first guy, overtaking a second further up after i'd sat on his tail til he bailed in some rocks, then just rolling on up cleaning all the way, then to the highest point where I found Nelson chatting with another couple guys.  We let them head off while I caught my breath, then we headed off down the right hand old skool route, me in the lead, blazing down round and through.  Some fucker has mangled the groovy rock features though.  One of them has a big wheel sized hole near the end of it that i had to pop over...  anyway, down the rest, then just before heading under the pylons the sun was shining red on the sides of the trees.  Quite spectacular...(because of this?)  Then, into the final droppy swoopy fun track down and out, back up to Junction (again!) and on down and out towards the car, red sun setting just as I lifted my bike over the gate, 7.25pm.  When's daylight savings end??