Sunday 8th June

This being the 500th post on this blog!

The crew of Dozer, Mellonfarmacist (with his flash new Turner 5.Spot), Buggs and the Silverfox met at Tink's's and headed around Cashmere Rd to Halswell Quarry Park and up C2.  Dryish under the trees, but the Crocodile was a grease fest and they contributed wisely to the ruts.  Most dabbed most of the big corners, ruts and grease just too much.  Up the Low Road a bit then onto the main track up to Siberia - sloppy under the dripping trees.  Onwards up Kennedy's they went up up up further and further into the clouds, greasy muck under tread.  All made good efforts at the top section, Tinks doing a bit of a loop-de-loop - losing balance, veering to the right until he was heading down again, then juuust about managing to turn it back round before dabbing.  The narrow broom infested top track was sticky as shit (and actually, there was a lot of actual sticky shit on the trails today, some cows seem to have had laxatives).

Onto the road and around to Worsleys.  Deciding against a proirly planned lap of the Nun.  Bodybag, hoo boy, what a descent.  Just enough grease on the surface of the clay to make for no chance of stopping, and barely a chance to keep the speed down.  Most survived it, Tinks lost it, all taking lines that proved less slick.  Bottom of bodybag up into the forest, most walking, Tinks cleaning it.  Into the woods, veering right right onto the Original.  Mellonfarmer having annoying chain droppage (only under zero power, if rear was up on 1st or 2nd).  Good rolling down under the trees, out over the clifftop and into the trees again, taking the right hander, some new line in here then onto the old, then onto lower Waynes World and pulling up at Fight Club.  Mellonfarmer chatted briefly with Zane about how great their 5.Spots were.  The group followed him shortly thereafter, the upper half awesome, the lower half all fixed up and sweet as, lots of tricky off-camber.  Greasy climb out of there.  Regrouped at the junction and spotted someone climbing the fence across the main track, so the adventurers ventured across to check it out.  A nice we entrance to a trail Nelsie and MF had found a few weeks back, and so the crew rolled down this, by-passing all the jumps.  Below the fence jump there was lots of fresh trail grooming, rolling on down found some really very young groms working their magic.  Crew continued on down, doing more of the jumps below here and enjoying the end, the onto the sticky exit track rolling out to the carpark.  Next it was down the road, mud flying and then into the new  "Farside" Track, which Tinks and others had found a few weeks back.  What a little beauty!  Sweet sidling and not losing too much altitude, always downwards with a few wee whoop-de-dos then spitting you out above the bottom road corner.  Sweet!  Mud flinging off the tires again as we rolled down the road again, then to Tink's's for a coffee and bickies.