Hornsby Heights/Galston Gorge (Quarry Road firetrail)

Submitted by Morgan on Tue, 24/06/2008 - 20:18.

Group Training

When:

Sun 29 Jun (08:30) - for approx. 3 hours

The meeting times are 'ready to ride'. If you need time to prepare equipment then please arrive a few minutes earlier.

Rain or Shine:

If it's raining, I won't be there.

Meeting Point:

Somerville Road Hornsby Heights, corner of Leonora Close (next to the small reserve).

Details:

My (now becoming) regular ride on the fire trails of Hornsby Heights & Galston Gorge (Quarry Road fire trail).

Looking to do this one sub 3 hours with minimal stops.

Who's in:

Morgan, NeilS

What Happened:

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I have been down the fire

Submitted by snwbrd on Wed, 25/06/2008 - 09:50.

I have been down the fire trail across the bridge and all the way up the other side. Are you talking about a similar run? I have been looking for more trails over there but never found any. We did try to follow the crosslands signs to crosslands which ends up a walking track before going down into the gorge once but never found a fire trail that goes down.

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sorry

Submitted by snwbrd on Wed, 25/06/2008 - 10:46.

Just looked it up and realised you are going somewhere different. I shall pencil this in and will confirm in the next day or two. Would like to be shown some new trails. Whats the terrain like?

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Hi snwbrd

Submitted by Morgan on Wed, 25/06/2008 - 17:11.

Basically what we have here is a set of fire trails running parallelish to Somerville and Galston Roads, eventually meeting up with the trackhead for the Quarry Road firetrail (the one you've done as mentioned in your previous post). The riding is about as technical as Terrey Hills / Duckholes / Centre tracks (ie not very but enough roughage to keep you honest), a bit of tarmac to link the fire trails up, and about 3 k's of bitumen either end to make it a circuit. It is hilly though, with about 900 metres of climbing in 40k's, most of it on roughly 6 steep climbs (including the two climbs on the Quarry Road fire trail, which are by far the longest).

It's a good fitness builder.

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will have to pull out

Submitted by snwbrd on Thu, 26/06/2008 - 17:16.

Done something to my Achilles today so probably wont be back on the bike this weekend. Enjoy the ride

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Ouch

Submitted by Morgan on Fri, 27/06/2008 - 17:47.

I ruptured my Achilles 'bout 8 years ago - twice. Took about a year to sort out. Look after it mate.

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I'm keen

Submitted by Patto on Fri, 27/06/2008 - 22:12.

I'm interested in coming along for a ride...I'm relatively new to MTB and still getting my fitness and technqiue sorted. How hard are you planning on hitting this ride?

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Hi Patto

Submitted by Morgan on Sat, 28/06/2008 - 17:54.

Sorry this is late..

If I post a social ride here and people join me then I expect to go at the pace of the slowest rider (which is quite possibly me) or stop at the top of the hills / junctions. There are lots of bail out points on this ride and you're never more than a K or 2 from a flat road back to the car (and easy directions) if things get a bit much.

The route will help you practise those technical skills - whilst most of it is easy firetrail, there are some steep downhills, steep uphills and a couple of short "technical" sections to give you a fiendly challenge. If it was too technical I wouldn't be doing it! May see you tomorrow.....

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