Sunday 26th January

Up bright and early today so got outside before anyone arrived.  first Dozer and then Tinkerbell and Silverfox arrived.  Just the four of us.  Headed up Rapaki with plenty of cloud and not much wind to start.  At the flat stretch we decided to head up to the top of Montgomery Spur but at  the first gate a big sign saying piss off this is closed due to rockfall danger so we continued up Rapaki.  The breeze was behind us at this point so really nice and cooling ride.  Quick stop and regroup before starting up Mt Vernon with me leading.  Caught up and passed a guy at the top of the climb before spinning around for  another regroup at the start of the traverse.  The slower guy passed while we were regrouping.  I once again led off with the  thought of passing him at the rock garden just before Lava Flow.  It was exactly what happened he went low and I went high and I was off with Tinkerbell hard on my heels.  Blasted around and down, offered Tinks the lead (at trhe normal stopping point, without stopping though) but he refused so off around to the top of Vic and a good pace.  When we regrouped discussion was held on where to go and we ended doing Thompsons and then climbing up for a loop of Marleys.  Let Tinkerbell lead off and we had a good blast all the way down to the Kiwi.  Silverfox  had a puncture near the bottom so we had a snack while he repaired this.  I led into Old Dyers for a very quick and dry blast down here before climbing into Vic.  Decided to do Cool Runnings so we headed off past Dazzas to find the track.  We even climbed/carried and pushed our bikes up the track to do some extra.  Nice flow down here doing the b lines.  Into Brideges, flow etc before heading up into Hidden Valley Track.  Cleaned the hairpins.  Tinkerbell then led off down Old skool.  Nice flowing run by all of us.  We were out the bottom by 11.45 so off we went for coffee before heading home.