Tuesday, June 07, 2005
Where's my USB cable?
Should be posting photos of the Mt Crawford single-track and of me looking really tired as the sun rises over Cromer, but I haven't been very together with my putting away of important things lately.
Spent the weekend out at Mt Pleasant, David Hughes and I took a Bike SA 4wd down so we could map out trails for the Track and Trail ride in a fortnight. It's really hard to ride along disused single trail in a pine forest while all the time looking over your shoulder for a piece of trail you just can't find. Doesn't help when they've held a 24hr motorbike race in the same piece of forest and the once flowing XC track now is a foot-deep rut running through the forest. What really pisses me off is that they used all of our track, except the rock gardens. Why can't they make their own track and therefore increase the amount of ridable trails in the area, instead of ruining ours again and again?
Anyways, Cromer is still great, just not as fantastic as Prospect Hill or Fox Creek. Mt Pleasant itself has some cool bits of disused fire trail and the north face peak is one big ass rock garden. Best thing is the small section of multi-use trail that cuts through the native forest between Mt Pleasant and Cromer. Very short section but the trail is just a series of markers and a bridge. Quite different for a fully legal trail. Also wicked is a small disused piece of trail to the west of Cromer Shed, moss and bracken covered doubles that flows nicely, added bonus it joins up the new Starkey Rd campground with Cromer.
Little Mt Crawford Native Forest Reserve has a 1.8km single track loop that's well worth spinning round in both directions. You can get to it following the Heysen Trail from the Forestry HQ.
All-in-all the area rocks, we pulled in a hundred k's of riding around. Everything form really gnarly single trails covered in pine-needles and tree trunks to picturesque fire tracks your granny could ride a rigid along. It's just a pity the central area has been gutted by logging operations and we could only put 40km into the Bike SA ride.
Not much else has gone on in my life, lots of two-to-three hour blasts in the Adelaide hills with Will. Major level procrastination about school work. Not even eating enough pasta. Need a new saddle, my tried and trusted WTB is looking very sad, and still need a new helmet, the one I've been given/lent doesn't fit well enough to stablely mount my light.
blah blah blah...
Spent the weekend out at Mt Pleasant, David Hughes and I took a Bike SA 4wd down so we could map out trails for the Track and Trail ride in a fortnight. It's really hard to ride along disused single trail in a pine forest while all the time looking over your shoulder for a piece of trail you just can't find. Doesn't help when they've held a 24hr motorbike race in the same piece of forest and the once flowing XC track now is a foot-deep rut running through the forest. What really pisses me off is that they used all of our track, except the rock gardens. Why can't they make their own track and therefore increase the amount of ridable trails in the area, instead of ruining ours again and again?
Anyways, Cromer is still great, just not as fantastic as Prospect Hill or Fox Creek. Mt Pleasant itself has some cool bits of disused fire trail and the north face peak is one big ass rock garden. Best thing is the small section of multi-use trail that cuts through the native forest between Mt Pleasant and Cromer. Very short section but the trail is just a series of markers and a bridge. Quite different for a fully legal trail. Also wicked is a small disused piece of trail to the west of Cromer Shed, moss and bracken covered doubles that flows nicely, added bonus it joins up the new Starkey Rd campground with Cromer.
Little Mt Crawford Native Forest Reserve has a 1.8km single track loop that's well worth spinning round in both directions. You can get to it following the Heysen Trail from the Forestry HQ.
All-in-all the area rocks, we pulled in a hundred k's of riding around. Everything form really gnarly single trails covered in pine-needles and tree trunks to picturesque fire tracks your granny could ride a rigid along. It's just a pity the central area has been gutted by logging operations and we could only put 40km into the Bike SA ride.
Not much else has gone on in my life, lots of two-to-three hour blasts in the Adelaide hills with Will. Major level procrastination about school work. Not even eating enough pasta. Need a new saddle, my tried and trusted WTB is looking very sad, and still need a new helmet, the one I've been given/lent doesn't fit well enough to stablely mount my light.
blah blah blah...
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