Exploring the Trails

While Katy was off playing at a friends house, we organised to meet Cath and Aoife for a mountain bike ride at Majura Pines. Not wanting to waste our energy levels by riding up and over the saddle from Hackett, we drove around to the main carpark located on the east side of Majura Parkway.

Access from this point provides the variety of tracks we were looking for. The first loop we rode all together was the Flash. From there Cath and I peeled off while Andy, Ella and Aoife explored the jump track and Crazy Crab loop. Our aim was to meet up somewhere on the otherside!

Cath and I headed on up to the northern most section of Majura Pines, known at Winery Hill. In on Mata Hari to Mr Squiggle before making a wrong turn down. Luckily we realised fairly quickly and turned around. Successfully up the switchbacks of Batcave. Emerging at the top we enjoyed the views overlooking the vines of the Mt Majura Winery. Fast down Pinot Grinio and on to Bombora, a great little track criss crossing an erosion gully multiple times. We popped out on to the fire trail to discover Andy and the girls riding along.

It was tough going for the girls along the Bogs and Logs track, living up to it's name! Certainly put their bike handling skills to the test. Both did a great job emerging from the trails via the 20m curved Monkey Bridge. The ride hadn't finished there. We were taken back to the jump park for a few more laps.

Lunch back at Cath and Eoin's completed the morning!