Oh.. E-biked with the fam to Nostalgia Fest and home again on Saturday.
On Sunday I managed to get out on my own for a couple of hours of climbing and descending, climbing and descending, then climbing a bunch and descending again.
Around about 3 pm, headed out and up the usual route, hot in the sun but a good bit of wind around. Over the 19th and through the skidder and into the grind up the grunterbastard. Bumped into Nick from work with his fam at Brake Free, then rolled on up to top of Vic. Dropped straight into the jumpies, around them then back up Worm to the top and dropped down over the cattlestop-stile-thing into the top of Pedalfine.
Nice bloop bloop blootch down this, not turning left at the usual spot but slightly further down, which led me onto the lower part of that usual route at about that wee bridge, rolling out onto the 4wd track and dropping into the new one I've been eyeing for a while now. It took me across RadiGarden and eventually down to where Pedalfine comes out on the next road-track down. A couple of features I wasn't game to take on blind, but that I rolled (except for one log) from a standstill. Left out to the Radi/Rad/Raceline intersection, climbing back up the Access track here to Razza's. Nice drop through here, riding good, then hung a right and climbed back up to the intersection again, this time dropping into the rest of Pedalfine, good blitz down this section, then climbed again on Access track up to Rad^Sick finally hitting up the jump I missed Thursday. Across same route as Thursday to Sneaky Ridge, dropping down this finding some nice lines, then dropped into Bridges, nubridges and bombed down the valleybottom.
Into the Hidden Valley climb, gasping but cleaning it all, around and up to high point for a brief pause before hitting Old Skool bombing. Much better run down here not worrying about the rear wheel being supposedly flat. Straight into the climb again, grinding up the valley. Stopped for a poke around in the bushes at the bottom of Hospital, eyeing up my future climbing trail. Pretty dense country, but the bush is tall enough to get through, just a matter of cutting out the gorse and blackberry. Up K2, walked a bit, then onto the sidle-climb through the pines, and stopped on the ridge for a over and below as to where the track might come. I reckon it can be done, will involve a few switchbacks.
Climbed up under Texaco (27footer) and up the shit climb. I reckon I've found another place here for a climbing trail... Then up under Ponos and through the 40footer zone and onwards up around the climbs I'd already done to the skidder where I topped up my water/tea. Into Lower gums out to 19th, below road, nice coast through forest, up onto wheelchair trail, onto road around to dogcarpark and into 235 for a rapid and loose but flowy descent. Mint. Popped the jumps good then out through the oaks, hard right up to road, climb again for one last time, and a fast bomb behind the houses.
An 11.2 km jaunt, climbing a couple metres shy of 500.
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