Perfect weather and perfect track conditions gave us a fantastic ride
with some minor issues with bikes and one bruised shoulder from a slip over the ride was utherwise incident free
3 days of dry weather dried the tracks out enough to not be so mudded as promised , we even had small amounts of dust on north facing tracks .
There were only about 3 trees fallen that were new and one narrrow track that had dead wattle trees and heads every 50m or so
A team effort got all bikes through, around, over, under trees , and cleared or created tracks around
Most of the tracks were fast flowing with large , predictable jumps/ wash outs.
the steepest and ruttiest tracks were dry enough to get down luckily
had to get the maps out a couple of times to stay on track to the pub ( at about 80ks ) where we had lunch on the verandah and the promise that the pub would reopen in a few weeks
from there it was fast tracks back to the cars around 4pm and 120ks clocked
So this ride had previously been named "hell ride " by a couple of riders who couldnt handle too much mud and slipery and bailed half way through the ride , i prefered it be "mud ride" but didnt end up as muddy as last time , so its up to the punters now
Thanks to Lefty for being Tail man all day , didnt have too many issues
photos to follow