Munda Biddi roller coaster blog: single track is the game
Wow. What a blast.
The Munda Biddi is one huge, fun, ride, with plenty of sweat, toil, and hardship thrown in.
Long single-track stretches. No traffic. Big Jarrah tree forest. Free accommodation. Big water tanks. Not many, often make that no, others on the track.
Nice.
This blog is the random thoughts generated by a second look at the Munda Biddi Trail near Perth. Should be accompanied by a soundtrack of 3-dimensional huffing and puffing.
This trip took place during a couple of hot weeks between Christmas and New Year on my old favourite hard-tailed mountain bike.
Once up to Stromlo Road I stayed on the trail for a ripping, 5 km single track, a firm surface for once, all downhill, front-wheel sliding, (who cares?), ducking stray foliage, a face full of spider webs, and their spiders, rather too often, the best, most joyous fun for the trip, just unexpected after all the too much loose stuff downhills recently and followed by another 5 km of almost overgrown, near-horizontal single track.
Getting itchy for a ride: and work is closing down for 2 weeks
19 December 2010
Time is ticking down for an enforced Chrissy work break.
Christmas in Australia varies from what you might experience in the Northern Hemisphere.
It’s summer and officially the start of the summer holidays, 2 weeks break, or 3 for many. Boxing Day is the year’s busiest day on the roads as everyone evacuates the city and heads off to the beach house or a close grouping of tents.
Munda Biddi rollercoaster blog begins here
Reconfiguring the bike: ie, replacing smashed components with some that work
Grevillea mycumbene: what sort of place name is that?
Carinyah shelter: so where are all the other trail riders?
Wungong Shelter: Never alone when you have 20,007 blowflies for company
Dandalup Shelter: and not a bad spot to spend a night
Marrinup camping area: a few 2 strokes provide a holiday atmosphere
Bidjar Ngoulin: the prettiest little spot in the known universe, almost
Near Yarri: just plopping down in a pine plantation
Yarri Shelter: time for a rest day
Nglang Boodja shelter: and I've no idea what it means either
Just past Donnybrook: and I spend the whole afternoon in the shade of some trees in the park
Jarrahwood shelter: last shelter on the trail, almost the last of the trail itself
Nannup, I think: unless the rain stops then I'll head back out
In a forest somewhere on the way to Perth: last night out for a while
Home sweet home: then a proper bed to stretch out on
back a week: whadda ya reckon?
last thoughts: Munda Biddi ain't a summer trail