Couple of not particularly long rides...
Tunnels
First off, T and H dropped O, Jet and me next to The Station Inn and we rode up Reg Cox into Blue Spur to ride Tunnels while they walked up from the bottom end. We had Jet in tow. Fun wee blat down, meeting the other two just above the tunnel and having a trailside picnic. Then down and back to the car, playing a game with Jet, getting them to call him back then calling him back to us.
A whole 60m climbed, and only 3.7 kms long
Tunnels
First off, T and H dropped O, Jet and me next to The Station Inn and we rode up Reg Cox into Blue Spur to ride Tunnels while they walked up from the bottom end. We had Jet in tow. Fun wee blat down, meeting the other two just above the tunnel and having a trailside picnic. Then down and back to the car, playing a game with Jet, getting them to call him back then calling him back to us.
A whole 60m climbed, and only 3.7 kms long
Family
Still earlyish so we dropped the dog back at base and headed out to park at Lake Kaniere. Hit the Wilderness Trail again, a muchly upgraded version of what we'd ridden years ago on the (pre-blog) Annual Trip. Nice pleasant easy ride, family spinning along, mostly downhill, following the water race til Wards Rd, then the original trail continues, but the new Wilderness Trail heads down Wards Rd, over the Kaniere River, and a new section of trail heads down hill from there. Awesome scenery and setting, and nice easy cruising. Nearing the end of the rimu forest I turned back and headed back up the way we'd come. Turned a good speed and up Ward Rd hill and onto the waterrace and bombed back up this to the car. Loaded the bike on the car and bombed it back down to where Hurunui Jack's is, and along a big waterrace for the power scheme here to the end, finding the family and surprising them for how little time it took me.
This one was nearly 10kms, and a little more altitude, just shy of 100m.
Still earlyish so we dropped the dog back at base and headed out to park at Lake Kaniere. Hit the Wilderness Trail again, a muchly upgraded version of what we'd ridden years ago on the (pre-blog) Annual Trip. Nice pleasant easy ride, family spinning along, mostly downhill, following the water race til Wards Rd, then the original trail continues, but the new Wilderness Trail heads down Wards Rd, over the Kaniere River, and a new section of trail heads down hill from there. Awesome scenery and setting, and nice easy cruising. Nearing the end of the rimu forest I turned back and headed back up the way we'd come. Turned a good speed and up Ward Rd hill and onto the waterrace and bombed back up this to the car. Loaded the bike on the car and bombed it back down to where Hurunui Jack's is, and along a big waterrace for the power scheme here to the end, finding the family and surprising them for how little time it took me.
This one was nearly 10kms, and a little more altitude, just shy of 100m.
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