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The Pinch Ride
Cascade Trail head. About 5Km West of Thredbo Village along The Alpine Way.
Mountains, here we come!
Re-enactment of the great Pinch Ride of 2004 (gallery). No GPS from that, but the route is a little bit like this found on MB here for future reference on Garmin Connect:
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Minus the leg from Thredbo (we'll start Cascade Trail head) and the bit this dude got lost in the middle - so maybe this will end up around 55Km all up.
Apparantly the last decent is a real workout for the brakes, be sure to have your bike in tip-top condition!
Pre BBQ Ride
Here's the ride to go with the Xmas BBQ.
Note the 9:30 start time.
I figure this is early enough for people to come and go home to clean/change and return for BBQ if they are close enough.
It's also not too early so those who want to hang around at the dam all day and do more laps and show up at the BBQ stinking can (you know who you are!) 
See you there!
Thredbo NYE
Thredbo
..bringing in the new year with some downhilling, some chairlift action, a lot of champagne and a luxury hotel..big smiles 
once again, all welcome!
Thredbo -Cannonball etc
I will be down at thredbo for 30th Dec and bringing in NYE as well doing the Raw NRG thing, anyone else wants to come down for some end of year thrills your more than welcome! check out www.rawnrg.com.au for details etc..
Big BBQ Dh + Xc Day @ Ourimbah *note changed to the 20th
Enter via Red Hill Rd, Ourimbah State Forest. On your right will be 'TreeTops' for the kids and it's large-ish carpark. Carry on past there and the first small clearing which is were parking used to be, and is where the 'Browns' single track turns (you might see riders on your left here). Please do not park in this car park.
Parking and official trail head is now designated a further 350m or so up the road where there is a larger area. There's a CCOMTB notice board here by the trail entrance (on the left as you drive up the hill). Park up nose to curb or as directed.
Big days of shuttles, pedalling and meat taking up a couple of bbq's and having a nice long day out at ourimbah- should be excellent times, all welcome just a fun day out! I will be supplying meat through work, but will need exact numbers confirmed at least 3 days prior so we can work out how much we will need- any suggestions welcome, vego's let me know too! ill check back later to confirm food and costs,
Cheers, Alex
Brisbane Water NP
Woy Woy Road, Brisbane Water National Park. Tunnel Track trail head.
Note the move to 8:30am.
Time for a bit of exploration. Brisbane Water National Park has loads of fire trail at least marked on the map. Time to take a look-see.
Tunnel Track seems to start about half way into the park so is probably as good a place as any to meet.
Will try and figure out a decent route, but as usual for an exploration there'll be a lot of playing things by ear.
As this is an exploration don't come if being lost worries you and allow food/water/time for at least 50Km of riding over several hours.
Mt York
Imperial park Mt Victoria
OK this is a CTMBC ride but open to everyone (you'll need to sign the disclaimer but there are no entry fees). It is part of the Celebrations of the 175 anniversary of the opening of Victoria Pass.
There will be plenty of things to do and see besides the ride, including Historical re-enactments at both Mt Victoria and Heartly Historic village so use it as an excuse to bring to family/better half up to the mountains for a bit of culture (the duck off for a ride while they are not looking).
Wisemans Ferry - Great Northern Road there and back fun and games
Wisemans Ferry - by the East ferry crossing (turn right bottom of the hill). There is a good parking area by the kiosk here.
East Ferry car park - I'll be in the green Freelander.
Planning to go up Commission Track, up through Ten Mile Hollow to the top end of GNR, then back down GNR's rock gardens and Shepherds Gully. Should be around 45 kms
All welcome, see it as mainly a training ride so will be trying to keep a reasonably constant pace if my old legs are up to it!!
cheers
Mark
Wingello Fling Reccy - 9AM!
4Km SW of Wingello village on Caoura Rd there's a small base camp within the forest - seems as good a place as any.
Given there's a ride in Canberra the day (& night?) before it would be rude not to stop at Wingello on way back, don't you think?
Especially given the Fling will be hosted here the following month.
11am meet sets a 9am departure from Canberra, or... and I'll just put this one out there... there's an option of camping at Wingello and moving that 11am to much earlier. OK, or... we could drive up to Bundanoon the night before also - maybe even better idea.
Ourimbah State Forest
Ourimbah State Forest
A bit of everything at Ourimbah, couple of xc's and a couple of DH's on the agenda, particularly interested to see the new work done on the DH track all welcome!