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Gary Clarke
Full Member 2012/2013
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« on: March 26, 2012, 02,11:23 AM » |
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Glenaladale 23,24 & 25 March 2012-03-26
Friday 23 March:
Zeb and I arrived at Glenaladale at 9.30 am Friday morning, started the fire as it was a bit cool up there but perfect weather for riding, bikes and gear unloaded we then drove 35km up Dargo road to drop off the fuel for the Saturday ride ,
After lunch Fred, Marles, Nigel, & Chris had arrived so we all headed out for a ride, checking out the creek crossings for both rides, back to camp at 5:30pm and ridden 85km.
The day finished with dinner, beer and a few laughs sitting around the fire.
Saturday 24 March:
Easy Clubman
The day started off smoothly, taking my usual tracks out to Dargo road then following the power lines for a few km, then in to the Mitchell River National Park, it had rained all of Friday night so the first creek crossing was a bit higher than the day before, so with another 20 + to go we were in for a fun day. We then took some of the ridgeline tracks to Peels Gap, Crossed back over Dargo road and re fuelled, 60km down and 100 to go, at the bottom of Black Range trk Mike’s front brake had locked on due to heat, quickly fixed and we were on our way.
Stopped for a late lunch at the start of Lees Creek trk, about half way along Left Hand Branch trk, with the creek crossings getting deeper Mike’s bike needed de watering then about 5km further on it was my turn, after a quick run up Freestone Creek trk we headed up one of Zeb’s favourite track called Bullant Ridge trk, then back to camp at about 3:30pm, total distance 167km.
Thanks Zeb and Matt for tail man duties,
Riders:
Gary, Mike, David, Zeb, Geoff, Chris & Matt.
Level 2+
Thanks Fred for leading this ride, Paul for a bit of local track help and Ted for tail man.
Will leave the rest for Fred.
Riders:
Fred, Nigel, Peter, Ted, Colin, Paul
Late afternoon ride
Paul took a few of us out to do a bit of single track “ on private property” we had gone through creeks, over logs, up and down hills, Colin drowned his bike in the creek so we de watered it but couldn’t get it started, it was pushed and dragged 500m up the creak to the end of the track, then tow started in the grass clearing, going up a rocky hill Nigel broke the sub frame mount off the KTM, with everyone looking a bit worn out we returned to camp, it took 2 hrs to do 9km !
Riders:
Paul, Colin Peter, Nigel & Gary
Dinner was home made wood fired pizza and apple crumble for desert made by Ron and Anne, ended the night sitting around the fire with a few more drinks and laughs about the days events.
Sunday 25 March
Most people left in the morning so there were only five for the AM ride, so we headed back out towards Freestone creek, finished at lunch time with another 80km
Riders:
Gary, Paul, Chris, Geoff & Matt
If all goes well I will run this ride again next year,
Cheers,
Gary.
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