Great wee ride tonight with Nelson, staying up high and looping about Mt Pleasant. We'd figured ridgelines would be best given the amount of rain we'd had a couple days ago...
Parked on Parkridge and headed the usual byways entering Britten at the gate on Upper Major and singletracking up from there. Zig and zag then at the top we hit the road and coasted down to hit the OG (Original Greenwood) entrance, peeling left into Sheepshit Alley for a nice cruisy descent. This always has more upwardsness than I feel it did (considering the climb it is the other way), but a nice blast down and took the 'Moab' line towards the end.
At the bottom we hung a right and cruised up the farm track, noticing for the first time a bulldozed fence line being put in. Continued onwards all the way to the gun emplacements. Bit of a tootle around here then rode and explored the closed Bluffs track to the point we couldnt. Turned back and bombed down to the OG line across, me leading and juuust making it through all the tech bits.
On the road again and back up to Britten for 'around the front' and then across the road at the cutting and up over the fence and up the very overgrown long grassed (especially for this time of year) zig and zag climbing all the way to the top of Pleasant. Very pleasant to get to the top for a bit of a rest and snack.
Dropped in, me in the lead, and pinging all over the place but enjoying the rocks and the down. Carved our way through the tussocks and then out to then end. Down the farmtrack briefly then dropping into what Trailforks calls Titus (Previously the Greenline/Greensticks/Swoopy). Hero dirt stylez down here, carving back and forth with great gusto and grip. Fun times. Then climbing (what Trailforks calls) Knapsack but I call Sheepshit Alley back to the top for the final stretch along this road.
Dropping into Britten, Nelson took off like a rocket. I was not far behind but wasn't quite as gungho. Good across the front then he missed a turn and I took the lead for the drop down, then we explored out to check out the rocks. Back on track we bombed down the steep section (that freaked me out last time I took the Troll down it) and over the stile to hit down Kenton Track, this time all the way. It was mint. He led the first bit but took the high line (towards where I exited last time) and I went low, leading the last section. Some awesome tech in there. Finally, up the steps, pushing up alongside houses then out on to Rockview, and up Major Hornbrook to the cars.
A very pleasant 13.8 kms with 520m climbed.
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