On my own, no breakfast just coffee ( + green tea in the bottle). Headed up the usuals, 19th, skidder, steep. Up to top, and into Thomson#1 for a nice groove, then back up the road to top, down around the jumpies, hard right into Worm, and up onto the Traverse. Good spin around here, stopping for a few (telling one group off for not giving way descending), then dropped into Huntsbury DH just after another guy had dropped in, slowly winding him in as we descended, flowing through the last gap right on his tail. He hung a left on the older version of the singletrack just after that, and I followed, striking up a convo with him and him pulling over for me. Bombed down through this then across the landing strip and seeking out the wee Rocky ridge entrance ways. Climbed up the zig zag on the back of the knob to find my front wheel going flat. Ugh. Swapped out the tube and said gudday to Doug, and got going again, forgetting to unlock my rear suspension down over the rocks. Down through the jumps, bypassing the odd one, all the way to the bottom of the dirt end of Huntsbury Ave.
Turned back up the hill and climbed, and climbed. Stopped for a rest under the cabbage tree below the rocky knob, snacked half a One Sq for 'breakfast' and continued on back up. Gave some directions to a lost dad and son, then gravel ground to the top. Back on the Traverse, good spin around stopping once for riders, feeling pretty strong on the climbs, then dove down the jumpies, see saw, brakestart then to rockgarden and gums dropping down through, out Skidder, road, 235, fun in there, wet landing off treebranch jump, then climbing, last blast drop behind houses to home. Fun times.
Expressive 14.8 km with 525 m climbed
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