The days leading up to the double fence line were, to put it mildly, “pretty crap”. Late September had dropped lots of snow about the place and the thought of driving out to Little River and climbing to a 800 metre ridgeline to sidle along for a few km’s was not terribly desirable. Several emails were exchanged about if we should even run the ride. I’m glad we did do it.
The Craigieburn Picnic area was the ride starting point and is just off the West Coast Rd, at the next turnoff past the Broken River ski field road. It was cool and a bit damp when we arrived, and an assortment of orange Ground Effect jackets was soon on display amongst the 16 of us assembled.