The Road to Where?

Today we had quite a crowd, 4 of us today. Lorenzo, Jeff, Darren and myself. Our aim was the road to No Where. It was going to be a interesting day, Darren was just getting back into MTB as was Jeff and for Lorry and I, we hadn't done this trail either.

It was a good start, and getting to the trail was relatively straight forward.

Dazza find as much shade as he can.

Always looking good.

Shade hunting from the boys.

The view south from the "Road to No Where".

However, we managed to get off the trail we wanted to be on (the trail doesn’t appear on any of the maps I’ve seen for this area), and found ourselves descending quite steeply down the side of the hill, there were heaps of drop off's that only the crazy would attempt. Well we thought so.

"Smacks of Death to me" or some serious hospital time :-)...

Well after about a 15-20 descent, mostly carrying our bikes down at the times that I did attempt to ride some of it but I came unstuck in magnificent style, with the bruises, scrapes and a bit of claret to testify to my attempts. We eventually ended up at the waterfall on the "Deep Creek" trail.

After the effort to get the scraped knee at least one photo was called for.

There was no way we were going to carry our bikes back up the bloody hill, so here headed out via the "Deep Creek" Trail back to the 4WD road.

Lorry and Jeff decided to call it a day at the Power Lines Trail turn off, Dazza being the trooper he is was happy to continue.

A bit "Dusty" Dazza ... literally.

It was a pretty fast run down the trail, here we can across a bloke who’s GT hardtail was looking a bit worse for wear. The frame holding the rear disc brake had completely snapped off. That would have made for an interesting ride when that happened. Apparently he’d been walking for a bit already, poor bugger.

Hmmm .. this doesn't look right? Can you pick the problem?

The rest of the Power Lines trail became progressively harder and technical, we were doing it in the opposite direction then that recommended. Plently of drop off’s to climb, it eventually reached the “Nursery Rhymes” trail.

Then back to the 4wd track. A quick loop of the XC track finished the day for us.

Not quite to plan.

Today was to be my first ride with Darren, but on arriving at Many Dam we found that both of Darren's tires had punctures. After a bit of fiddling around we managed to replace one and repair the other, alas, the puncture only last about 15mins before it gave way. This left Darren with a 30-40min walk back to the car.

A brand new day.

With no joy at Rebel Sport, he pulled the pin on the day, but there's always tomorrow. Not an auspicious start for his new Kona.

But i did manage to push out 3 laps (about 3.5hrs).

Oxford Falls (Little Moab) 19/02/06

It was a misty start to our ride today and "Little Moab" was our destination today. Lorry found it a little hard to get out of bed this morning and was still waking up as he put his bike together.

We had a quick look at the DH track first off just warming up :-).

Miles from anywhere.

Heading up to Little Moab... the climb up was worth the trip back down. I was starting to get more confident with my approaches and executions.

Amazing rock patterns at Little Moab.

Great district views.

A hill of rock.

And it was the same going down... no heroics today.

No, you first Lorry, I insist.

The mono king!