Saturday 20th December

Bugs and Dozer headed off for an adventure. Drove to Hamner via the long way, though the Westcoast. The weather was hot n dry in Hamner. Parked at the Dog Stream on Jollies pass road. Rode over to Jacks Pass then headed up to Tank Track. This as many tracks have changed since we rode them 3 years back. Headed down this then up into Yankee Zepher Trail. Great flowing track down here. Into Swoop trail from here then up to the start of Red rock. Great blast down here where we headed up Dog Stream trail. Chatted to a couple there then headed up to Big Foot. This had some challenging steep switch backs to head up. Down we headed enjoying it all. Up to Detox. Flew down this missing the Chicken root and both riding the drop off. Worked our way back towards the car. 19.3km with 521m of climbing.

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On this day, Nelsie and Mellonfarmer did the Rameka.  They rode in Canaan Rd from the main Takaka Hill road, and jumped on the Roller Coaster part of the Canaan Loop and rolled into Harwoods Hole carpark, then headed down the Rameka.  An excellent, albeit very slippery ride, having had a bunch of rain on it the night before.  The marble stuff was all really slippery, as were all the roots, and some of the mud...  Heaps of windthrow having thrashed the forest just outside the National Park bit.  The Packtrack leading to Rameka Project was awesome, tho it's incredible Nelsie never killed himself the rate of knots he hit some of the marble sections that had him pinging about like a pingy thing.  Rameka Project was sweet, tho a bit slippery in the forest.  Then the Klicks...  One Klick, yep, good.  2 Klicks?  stupid muppet Mellonfarmer hit the wooden jump and bollocksed his landing, managing to bend his seat with his ribcage, and grazing and massively bruising his inner thigh on his rear tire.  Broken rib and still sore at 2 weeks later.  Straight back on tho, and they pumped it good all the way down to Pohara.  Rib didnt even really start hurting til about 3 hours after it happened...