SO much adventure...

Happy New Year!

Alot of small things have happend since the last blog entry, not to mention the fact that it is the NEW YEAR!

I love riding new places! I acctually get nervous when I ride somewhere new on the mountain bike... no escape, relying on others to guide, always carry an extra tube, always carry that little bit more water, some of us even carry a first aid kit on their back?????????

Some also need to pee alot... sorry Jody needed a pic of that first aid kit ;)

After a shout-out on Mtbdirt Jody and I were off to Spring Mountain/White Rock on the mountain bikes. Jody riding his carbon, all mountain, On-One hardtail and me on my XC racer big wheeled 100mm travel clown bike. Jody had warned me about the gnarly-ness of the tracks out here. Luckily, although I ride the bike paths of Daisy and Gap Creek often, I really enjoy the untouched trails too!

White Rock from one end... you can see the single track leading up in front of me

The ride was very HOT but very enjoyable, with Jody and I giggling away at all the near offs whilst riding through angle deep sand. As mentioned, the weather was very steamy due to a big thunderstorm rolling in over the Gold Coast - or so we thought!

As we reached one of the peaks we noticed the wind picking up, the sky getting darker, and that thunderstorm over the "Gold Coast" was more over Springfield Lakes now... The wind up the top was absolutely crazy.

We started back to the cars via some AWESOME single track. Big drops, jumps and massive washed out corners were in front of us, but a big storm was hightailing it behind us. As we got around half way back to the car it started raining

We pushed on with weatherman Jody predicting "this should pass soon". We passed the last of any shelter and took off on the last 7-10km of the journey. Next thing..... in the space of 5 minutes we copped hailstones, heavy rainfall and thunder. We quickly realised this was going to end in a wet and muddy ride and headed for the cars as directly as we could. The end of the ride was battling through the rain all the way back to the shopping centre.

Once back we laughed ourselves silly at the fact we were both covered in spring mountain mud... but were releaved we didn't need to use the first aid kit.

Thanks for the ride Jody!