Too many times in the world of trail advocacy there is the attitude of riders and locals to scream ‘not in my backyard!’ I do not want anyone else to know about or to ride on my trails. Why not?
“At that point we knew that, thanks to the crafty use of a cog railway, we only had another 250 metres to climb but 2,700 metres of descent! Now that is the way to finish.”
Once out of the gorge the country opened out into an array of ridges. You had to take the time to look around; to view the red rocks and broken cliff lines of this magnificent part of Australia.
Mud may be slippery and loose gravel will get your tyres in a drift but few trail surfaces compare with the unpredictability of exposed tree roots.