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Day 7 - Jingelic - Albury

29/4/2016

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Last day, home stretch to Albury. We saw on the radar the night before that the rains were coming through. We're prepared with all the wet gear ready to go.

Distance: 117.3 kms
​Elevation: 941 m
Roads: Mostly on road (minimal traffic), bike paths 7 kms
Strava: link

Highlights:
  • Ice Cream at Hume Dam
  • Shipping container conversion
  • Lunch before the rain and sand storm hit

Anti-highlight:
  • Riding into gail force winds and a sand storm
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Day 6 - Tumbarumba to Jingelic

28/4/2016

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Distance: 57.3 kms
Elevation: 522 m
Road: On Road, then gravel with corrugations from Tooma (nasty) for 35 kms
Difficulty: Medium - Hard
Strava: link

Highlights
  • Making breakfast on the coals outside
  • Walking around outside with just a towel
  • Pub meal at Jingelic

Warning
  • The gravel road from Tooma is nasty. Avoid where possible

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Day 5 - Selwyn Snowfield's to Eliot's farm in Tumbarumba

27/4/2016

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Waking up to a frozen drink bottle isn't so bad when you're camping lake side and it's all misty when you wake up to the sun rising. Our neighbours are super helpful again showing us their topographical map with contours of the mountain ranges and then donating 4 litres of water. Much appreciated as we had our massive climb on a hot day. 

Distance: 63 km
Elevation: 1,207 m

​Strava: link
Warning: no water stops along the way. 
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Highlights:
  • Waking up next to a misty lake
  • Swimming in O'Hare's dam
  • Decent to O'Hare's dam
  • Highest elevation 1500 m above sea level
  • Riding along side some brumbies
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Day 4 - Mt. Clear to Selwyn Snowfields, close call finding a camping spot before freezing

26/4/2016

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Wake up after a freezing cold night. Luckily we have enought fuel for a fire to warm some water to make porridge. However the gravel road out of Canberra along Bobeyan road is soul crushing. Our patience is thinning. We're not talking to each other and ready to burst.

​We make it out by 12pm and roll into Adaminaby for lunch. We sit eating in the fallen Autumn leaves planning the next section. We thought we'd be able to make it to O'Hare's rest area, but as the sun went down and still had 30 kms to go we realised there'd be no chance. Plan b get to a warmer flat ground, outta sight camp-able spot before we freeze. Hangry and cold we pass a sign for Selwayn Snowfields and come across a sign with the tent symbol, Three Mile Dam camp grounds. SCORE! We roll in and see several campervans with fires going and we're more at ease. The night gets better as we get invited to share the fire of our neighbouring campers who also have keen cycling children and are keen adventurers. Another close call.


Distance: 74.5 kms
Elevation: 1,478 m
Difficulty: Hard
Road: Gravel 43 kms, on road, beautiful decent into Kiandra goldfields
Strava: link
Start: Mt Clear
End: Three Mile Dam Campground near Selwyn Snowfields
Food: Lunch @ Adaminaby, cafes, bakery, pub, bowling club, general store with camping gear

Highlights:
  • Brayshaw's settler's hut in Shannons flat
  • The big trout at Adaminaby 
  • Finding a gas canister for my stove so we can make coffee​
  • Sharing a campfire with a friendly couple on the campsite
  • Cafe in Adaminaby

Anit-highlight
  • 43 kms of gravel roads, corrugated to get to Adaminaby
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Day 3 - Canberra to Mount Clear along Bobeyan road

25/4/2016

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After a night in the comfort of a bed at a friend's place, pub dinner and a hot shower we're on the road with a smaller entourage. We ride out to Thawra for brunch on ANZAC day and get some hot pides and turkish bread for the road. 
We're supposed to cover 120 kms but only managed half that after encountering some nasty gravel uphill roads which were a lot tougher than we'd hoped. By sunset we were looking to make camp on the side of the road anywhere it was flat

Start: Canberra
End: Somewhere on Mount Clear near Shannons flat
Distance: 77.3kms
Elevation: 1,694 m
Difficulty: Hard
Road quality: On bike paths until Thawra when it turned onto country roads. Then into gravel going into the state forest. Gravel with uphills.
Strava: link
Temperature: 10 degrees C at night

Notes: No water from Thawra on. Must carry all water for 100 kms until Brayshaw's homestead. 

Highlights:
  • First bit of country road from Canberra
  • Watching the milky way at night

Some photos courtesy of @Elbosout
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Day 2 - Bungonia to Canberra through Poplars

24/4/2016

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Route: link
Strava: link
Distance: 124 kms
Elevation: 1100 m
Start: Bungonia Campground
End: Canberra bus depot
Road: On road, some compact dirt with corrugations (not much not too bad) 20 kms on highway with small shoulder, in Canberra bike lanes
Difficulty: Medium - Hard (highways weren't too pleasant)

Highlights: 
  • Yellow Poplars lining some of the streets
  • Attempting pancakes on the gas stove
  • Sun setting over Canberra, riding around the lake

Panorama photos courtesy of J.Henderson.
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Day 1 - Moss Vale to Bungonia through the Southern Highlands

23/4/2016

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It's long weekend and I'm in between jobs so I figured I'd take this opportunity to do a cycle tour down through NSW. What started off as an idea for an overnighter turned into a week adventure through the Australia's highest mountain ranges in Kosciuszko National park. 

I managed to convince 5 others to come along on the first part to Canberra, a mini adventure with the SNR crew. After much planning between myself and a friend, lots of consultations of train times, locations, camping grounds. We finalised a route from Moss Vale to Canberra via Bungonia. 
The adventure began at 7:24am from Central station, trying to find the elevator up to the platform is a nightmare (go to the Eddy Ave side first). We caught a "normal" 8 carriage train out to Campbelltown then changed over to the train for Moss Vale. Although the train ride was completely covered by the opal card, we didn't realise the train to Moss Vale was very different to the Sydney trains. It was 2 carriages, had space for 2 bikes to hang off a hook and no in between spaces. Somehow we managed to squeeze bikes into the passenger part and lie them ontop of each other.

Train ride duration: 2h 30 mins
Start: Central Station
End: Moss Vale Station

Ride Start: Moss Vale Station
Ride End: Bungonia State Forest Camping grounds
Distance: 79 kms 
Elevation: 730 m
Difficulty: Easy, Medium
Road Conditions: On Road (bituman) in back countries, 10 kms on highway with wide shoulder
Route Map: link
Strava: link
Moving Time: 4h 30min
Total journey time: 6h 20mins

Pitt Stops:
  • Bundanoon - Ye Olde Bike Shoppe cafe, multiple cafes, free water stations
  • Wingello - General Store which has a cafe, bread and canned foods

Camping site:
Bungonia Campgrounds, booking required and has charges. Facilities are out of this word. Filtered water, hot showers, gas bbq outside, gas stoves in an common room

Highlights:
  • Autumn leaves of the Southern Highlands
  • Entrance into the Bungonia camp site, farms with horses and cows and loads of Kangaroos
  • Buying veggies on the side of the road for dinner
  • Cook up feast over the gas bbq
  • Bumping into friend who were also camping at the site

Some photos courtesy of this beautiful rider @alikjones
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Eat my dust - Cycle touring along the Hawkesbury river, NSW

1/4/2016

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I ate a lot of dust this weekend. Actually only when I was riding on the dirt, gravel, corrugated gravel, off road roads. There was much anxiety and fretting over whether my Fuji hybrid would be able to handle the Easter tour. Eventually I borrowed some knobbly tyres from a friend, switched them onto my Fuji, strapped on my tent and borrowed panniers on another cycle touring adventure. 

Day 1 - Wyong to the Basin

Route: link
Distance: 77 kms (if you go to the cafe) 67 kms (if you don't go to the cafe)
Elevation: 1308m
Road conditions: Dirt, gravel, bitumen, corrugated gravel, down hills, ditches, everything
Start: Wyong station (catch a train from Central station 2 hours)
Finish: Basin camping, Olney State Forest
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Day 2 - Basin to Wiseman's ferry

Route: link
Distance: 78 kms
Road conditions: Gravel hill out, undulating dirt roads, corrugated gravel road, bitumen, free ferry to Wiseman's ferry, another ferry to Mill Creek camping grounds

Start: Basin camping ground
Swim stop: St Albans
Lunch: Settlers Arms pub, St Albans with live music
Finish: Mill Creek Campaign ground, 6 kms from Wiseman's ferry

Highlights:
  • ​​St Albans pub with live music
  • Swimming in the river washing off all the sweat
  • 1 dollar watermelon
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Day 3 - Mill Creek to Windsor 

Route: link
Distance: 60 kms
Road Conditions: Bitumen, mostly along the Hawkesbury which doesn't see much traffic.

Start: Mill Creek camping grounds 
Coffe: Wiseman's ferry cafe
Lunch: Sackville ferry stop, packed lunch
Finish: Windsor station

Beware: Bogan redneck drivers and houses with the Eureka flag
​Highlight: Riding along the Hawkesbury river
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