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Beginners at Terrey Hills Saturday
Hello!
Kristina and I will be leaving Terrey Hills shops at 8.30 on Saturday if anyone else fancies a beginners one - this is the ride we were going to do last week...
anyone who wants to come is welcome to join us!
Christine
Dirtworks Course
Start/Finish in St Albans, head East, then South along the river before cutting East again up onto the ridge.The decent back down is on the Great Northern Road. Then head North past that previous turn and cut West across the river (thankfully dry) and up the hike-a-bike climb. Another ridgetop ride before very steep descent, another river crossing and coming back to the Start/Finish from the North.
Dirtworks Profile
2006 course profile from my MotionBased activity.
Elevation Gain/Loss is 2,194m - I split their 4m error 
Dirtworks '06
Not much to say about this... I'm only blogging here to record the results for fun 
Pushing Higher
Spotted this today and wanted to share, amazing:
http://www.smh.com.au/ftimages/2006/05/03/114633...
This guy is part of the http://www.pushinghigher.com/ expedition.
"In the first two weeks of June this year Jimmy Goddard and Darol Kubacz (both paraplegics) will attempt to climb Mt. Kilimanjaro in Tanzania in specialist arm powered hand-bikes."
Good on 'em and good luck!
Save Belrose
This morning whilst with our horses at the beginning of Cascades we met a lady who is on the committee trying to save Belrose from being developed into netball courts and houses - they want to take the top area where you ride in and also partway down Heath Track...they keep changing the amount of hectares - upwards of course!
If I find out more information and post it on the site along with a letter to be sent to the Council to oppose this would you all be interested in objecting? My sister runs marathons and they train down there too - we think everyone who does outside sports needs to band
Beginners Saturday 6th May and Sunday 7th May
Hi all,
I am planning semi-beginners rides for this Sat and Sunday.
Saturday 6th May Cascades - start 8.30am meet at the end of Wyatt St, Belrose. This will be about 2.5 hours and will require some fitness as there are some VERY BIG HILLS (be warned!). But not to worry. You can always walk up the big hills and it will help increase your fitness. This is mostly fire-trail and not very technical although there are some slippery/slidey rocky sections downhill and some loose sand here and there (but not as much as terry Hills).
Sunday 7th May Terry Hills - For those of you who didn't quite get enough of the sand last week, I thought I would go out and give Terry Hills another go. Meet at 8.30am at the Terry Hills shops. This ride is also about 2 hours and most of you know what you are up for.
Barrington Tops?
So... someone asked me about Barrington Tops today. They mentioned there was some 32Km downhill section!
Did a little bit of searching for cycling here but with no joy - does anyone know anything about this area?
Anyhow, I had a mess about with a few maps, and don't know about 32Km but there is a road marked (probably dirt) that runs right up to very near the top of the Barrington plateau (or whatever we're calling it). From the end of here at 1502m altitude there's one marked Kholwha Trail that runs East and in 13Km (as the crow flys, more of course with twists) it drops to 411m alt. Niiiiiiice!
MT Beauty XC tracks
XC trails at mount beauty.
We rode:
- The survey track - which is the brown trail off to the right
- The XC track (at least from the top from the West Kiewa firetrail)
The survey track is straight, narrow and takes about 30-40m. the only challenge here is the sometimes long drop off to the right - you are literally riding along a track that is cut into the side of a steep hill.
The XC track - wow - this was where the XC national champs were recently held.