If you head south from Gatton towards the Queensland border, you’ll eventually run into an imposing wall of mountains. The Great Dividing Range is difficult to cross here, except for a couple of hidden valleys. Today we visited Black Duck Creek and explored one of these secret pockets
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Cross-country MTB
East Meets West
If you follow the Brisbane River upstream as far as you can go, it eventually splits in two branches. Our adventure today took us in a big loop through through the most upper reaches of the Brisbane River, along its Eastern and Western Branches.
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Cooloola
Great Sandy National Park is spectacular wilderness area north of Noosa, covering over 2,000 square kilometres. Today’s adventure took us from Elanda Point in the south, through the rainforests near Kin Kin Creek then northwards into the Cooloola section of the Park.
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Harrys Hut Adventure
This weeks adventure was a group ride to Harrys Hut with about twenty friends.
Eric and I scoped out the route last week, making it easier for us to relax today, and enjoy this amazing ride
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Harrys Hut
The purpose of todays ride was to explore some trails around the upper reaches Noosa River in the hope of finding an enjoyable route for a group ride next week.
A bunch of us are planning to ride from Kin Kin in the Noosa hinterland to Harrys Hut – a camping area on the banks of the beautiful Noosa River.
So Eric and I decided we should look around to find the best tracks… and have some fun at the same time!
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Maroochy River
The serene Maroochy River meanders through sugar cane fields and mangroves as it wends its way from Yandina to Maroochyore on the coast.
Today’s adventure took us from Parklands State Forest, near Nambour, to several interesting spots along the Maroochy River, and then finishing back in Parklands.
I also wanted to have a look at different ways of getting from the river to Parklands as part of a future social ride where we may have to paddle across using Eric’s inflatable dinghy.
Clare and Kat from the Bushrangers Mountain Bike Club kindly offered to show Darb, Jason, Paul and me around the twisty trails at Parklands where it’s easy to get lost if you don’t know where you’re going.
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Yandina Creek
Today Simon and I explored the cane fields between Yandina and Coolum looking for a route that we could use for a future social ride.
This alluvial plain contains a mixture of swamps, farms and melaleuca scrub. It floods regularly, but has many tracks that are fun to ride.
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Delaneys Creek
On a very hot day, riding a large, off-road, mountainous loop from Wamuran to Mt Mee via Delaneys Creek seems a little bit crazy.
But my friends and I have a motto: “No boring rides” – and this unusually tough loop seemed like the perfect fit.
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