Saturday 7th June

What a day. The worst weather ever. Rubberjaws rode over to the Silverfox's. Geez and Tinkerbell drove over. The four of us were riding upto the Trees for Canterbury planting at the top of Marleys Hill. The idea was to go up Worsley, do the planting and then go down the Flying Nun, into Vic Park etc etc. We had heard there was a race down Worsley so we rode up the Tarmac. When we got to the Sign of the Takahe the rain started. Spoke to the ranger who was coordinating the event by cell phone and she had 300 plants already to go and people starting to arrive so we decided to keep going. By time we got to The sign of the Kiwi, it was cold, very wet and windy. Nearly pulled out at this stage but tough as we are we rode into the eye of the storm to complete the challenge. Fatman drove past near the top to spur us on. We were so cold at this point. All in shorts. When we got to the top S,G and T stopped. Rubberjaws rode past up the track cos he was to cold to stop. The others all followed. We got down the track to the planting site. Welcomed by 20 people all dressed for the winter. We managed to get about 20 plants in between us when the snow started. At this stage we could not feel anything but pain from the cold so Fatman walked up to his car while we rode. Could not feel our fingers on the brake levers, shivering so hard and the track was wet and slippery. Crazy shit to be there really. Loaded the bikes on and into the car and headed down. Normally you see guys getting a lift to the top so they can ride down. We are tough PFMTB riders. We ride to the top and get a lift down.