Bit of a hoon about the tops tonight. Nelson came over to 'mine' and we headed up around Belleview, Major Horny through the Ridge/Views to Upper and into Britten. Trail pretty dry for the climb, so we stayed on it around the front and through to the cutting. Over the fence and clambered up where I clambered the other week, this time turning right and bombing down to the stile where we stopped for a short break while he scoffed a bit of kai. From here, down to the Saddle and up the back onto the 360/Crater rim behind the Gondola. Amazingly, Nelson cleaned all of the climbing and all of the steep bits we'd never cleaned before. I didn't. A little greasy on the shady side of the hill, but not too bad.
Down the steppy bits into the rocky zones, picking our way with usual aplomb across the top to the Bridle top. Up the road from here towards Castle, peeling up onto the Crater Rim again at the next saddle, turning back down across and then climbing towards Lyttelton around the top. Nice view down into the harbour. A fun descent down the singletrack, narrow, flax and broom and cleaning all the techy rocky bits several of which used to be too steep, but somehow no longer are.
Onto the road again and around under the Gondola, climbing back up to Britten to go around the front but dropping down the main front fast descent, eventually peeling left for the fun rocky bomb down under the pylons and out. From here, fast sealed descent down Hornbrook to Belleview again.
Irrefutable 12 kms with 526 m upwardly.
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