T and Phee dropped H and me at the high point (~5km in) on the Canaan Rd and we rode downhill from there, thru the Gathering site and onto Rollercoaster. He was a wreck because of a bad night's sleep in Mot and so hated any climbing. I enjoyed the chuff and grunt tho, through the groovy forest to the Harwood's Hole carpark and then the real climb began which he also hated. We were overtaken by a young fella we'd seen who's parents had dropped him at Harwood's carpark, he was krankin'. Then while we had a break at the entrance of the forest a couple of guys we'd passed in the car on the way in got to us.
Speed hit here and we bombed. A couple of new lines zigs and zags where it used to be the rutted guts. We took another new easy one in the forest too, which was pretty cool. Avoided where Wayno got the Dozer moniker. Also seemed different in the gully before the rocky ledge, which also seemed more rideable with less walk on the worst rocky section. The view from there.
From here it was much longer than I remembered, bombing through to the official end of the trail. Then into the Packtrack, which had more in it that I remembered too. This was super fun. And the tomo was further than I remembered too. Missed the lowest section of the packtrack, taking the connector over the hill. this has fast swoopy switchbacks and a couple of overhanging thistles were interesting. One we both ducked for, it was at head height and would have really hurt. The second got me good, right on the nipple. Felt like it'd ripped it off.
Into the forest and lovely rooty trail that is the Rameka. Nice and dry (as it gets) with cornflakes all the way. Was the driest I've ever seen it, but still had wet bits. Creek crossings were all a bit more rideable than in the past. Roots weren't slippery, which was good. Fatty behaved wickedly, and Hugo certainly enjoyed it a lot more once we got to where it started heading down more. 
Speed hit here and we bombed. A couple of new lines zigs and zags where it used to be the rutted guts. We took another new easy one in the forest too, which was pretty cool. Avoided where Wayno got the Dozer moniker. Also seemed different in the gully before the rocky ledge, which also seemed more rideable with less walk on the worst rocky section. The view from there.
From here it was much longer than I remembered, bombing through to the official end of the trail. Then into the Packtrack, which had more in it that I remembered too. This was super fun. And the tomo was further than I remembered too. Missed the lowest section of the packtrack, taking the connector over the hill. this has fast swoopy switchbacks and a couple of overhanging thistles were interesting. One we both ducked for, it was at head height and would have really hurt. The second got me good, right on the nipple. Felt like it'd ripped it off.
Into Great Expectations, and we had a blast rolling down this, all the way. Amazing where the water has sluiced one of the streams, cleared he vege completely. Lot of fun back and forthing in here, into the conifer, into the regen, into the conifer, then regen the rest of the way. Nice new bridge over the Rameka Stream and then into the Klicks. These were fun. both sections, then we popped out on the road lower down and there was T and Phee. The went up the road to turn around and we got to do a couple more sectoins lower down, before meeting them again.
A muchly enjoyable 19.5 kms travelled, only 207 m gained, but a total of 950 descended.
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