16.03.10 Macetown MISSION

Adventure tuesday...Macetown....We took a trail on our bike map described as rolling hills and then solid hill climb. We got to the beginning of it, the sign said no bikes so we thought we would go up the 4wd track next to it presuming it would go same way. After about 3/4 of an hour as we hit a dead end, we realised we were up the wrong hill so we went back down and up the path which said no bikes.

A false start but no worries, onwards and upwards.....Turns out the sign was possibly advisory rather than spoil sport because we soon hit steep hills and trails not suitable for bikes. In the middle there was a section which felt like the described rolling and then steep path. We reached a saddle and looking over the other side we were not impressed, the path disappered into a tussock valley which we proceeded to drag the bikes through. Eventually we reached a 4wd track and cruised along to macetown which we promtly left again when we discovered the sand flies beat us to it!

We went back to arrowtown along the 4wd track which was great fun, downhill all the way with about 20 river cossings. it more than made up for the challenging beginning. An interesting trip with bike pushing, dragging and eventually some cycling involved!!