Saturday 21st June, The Shortest Day

Planting day at Eastside Bush so a late start was in order.  Phatboy, Silverfox, Dozer and Bugs all arrived at mine in reverse order and we set off up Crapaki.  As we climbed so did the temperature so we delayered at the top of the tarmac before continuing at a steady pace to the top.  Good climb and I must say I did better than last Sunday.  I led off over Mt Vernon and then we regrouped at the start of the Traverse.  From here we blasted around to the top of Vic Park, regrouped and then headed down the rock garden, into the Gums and all met up at the skidder site before heading down Shazzas.  Into Ponos where we stopped and planted.  got that all done in quick time before grunting up K2 to the skidder site where we were all gasping.  No-one succesfully made the climb in one go.  I failed to get the last few meters at all.  We then went and had a glorious feed put on by the rangers.  Phatboy and Silverfox headed down the road at different times while the other 3 of us headed down K2, passing a guy with  a broken arm who wimped out walking and demanded a chopper ride.  Home by 4ish.  The day was wonderful.