Big thanks to Glenn for pushing me to do this one.

We started at lake Wallace and worked out way up past what's left of Lidsdale pine forest then followed a mixture of the train line and the bicentennial trail across towards Rydal, hooking up a loop of the Rydal short course on the way

From Rydal we worked our way up the coach rd through Bonaventure. The road easement is public but it crosses private property and there are several gates, please respect the land owners by closing gates and staying on the trail.

Head on up Hassans Wall rd at the top take the left fork. A couple of fast downs and slower ups takes you across the top of the reserve on the main fire road.

You can either take the left turn toward Braceys Lookout or continue down for 300 meter and take the left into an obscure/overgrown road then reverse back up the Ewok trail to link up with the Braceys rd halfway along.

When I say this is most of the first half of the Wingello route, that's because it starts at base camp instead of coming into the forest from the village.

During the Highland Fling race the competitors don't return to camp of course, they head out on most of the WWS loop, to outer limits and beyond.

This course is hard to describe so best to follow the attached GPS. It's a great mix of single track and firetrail.

Although this is quiet a long ride, it's technically easy as is pretty much 100% fire trail.

Start/finish in the carpark by the famous walls lookout. You notice from the profile that there's a climb back up the road from where you came, but this isn't as steep as it looks. Then take a left off the 'main' (if you can call it that) road and head North on Morong Creek/Kowmung River Fire Trail. You'll come back out on the road before being able to head South on Boyd River Fire Trail which joins back up with your original route.