9am meet
for Dozer, Texas and Sandals at bottom of Rapaki, pointed up into a screaming
head wind and battled uphill one bend at a time. A brief pause in the lei of
the top fence, then off to clear the Mt Vernon rock section…. to find it
buried under 2ft of fill, transformed into a wheelchair access footpath L at least we’ll have an
‘all weather’ track the will never be closed in winter. Yeah right!
The
traverse had new tricky spots dealing with strong cross winds trying to throw
you over the edge, so the shelter of Vic Park was welcomed. The Nun was voted
off as being too exposed and so we headed down the rock garden managing to
loose each other and ride 3 completely different lines to meet again at the
skidder site. From here we sidled around the upper 4WD track, Texas practicing
his low seat, jump bike, cool teenage look in preparation for getting some Cool
Running’s big air. This is such a fun track, swooping corners and flowing
steep berms, a hidden gem often forgotten and under used. Out the bottom
open section which is becoming quite dusty and rutty from overuse. A brief
re-gathering then into the Hidden Track which threw obstacles in our way, else
we would have all cleared the lower creek, a falling breaking tree down on use
in the steepest uphill section (audio only thank goodness) and on the most
difficult blind corner possible walkers in the middle of the turnaround to
avoid… Texas even had to pull out his downhill backwards pedaling
technique to narrowly avoided … clearing a corner J. Old Skool was the
perfect finish to our short but very social ride… views, sunshine, sheltered,
flowing lines, downhill, even good scenery passing us on the way
up… Then there was coffee, muffins and movie reviews, ah,
another great Sunday morning.
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