The Narrowneck Trail - Saturday 7th April 2007
Early on an extremely rainy and pretty damn cold Sydney morning, Poppy and I set off from Balmain, destination Katoomba, WHY? To ride the Narrowneck trail of course!
After the short drive to the Blue Mountains, luckily the skies cleared and we were left with just some light drizzle. We met Mick and Chris at the bike shop just in time for me (OK Poppy) to fix a puncture on my bike! Puncture fixed, the boys hired bikes and we were good to go.
We headed out of Katoomba past the 3 sisters lookout point and Scenic World. It started off nice and cruisey flying downhill at full speed only to be met by a steep uphill climb. After a short while the tarmac disappeared and we ventured on to dirt.
The track was undulating to say the least, after a lot of nice downhill sections there were a lot of not so nice uphill sections, saying that once we got in to the zone we were doing pretty well. We stopped several times to admire the stunning views below and to take the odd snap.
After about an hour and a half we reached our destination which is a lookout point down towards Warragamba Dam, the view was absolutely stunning, so, we sat down for a short while, ate some lunch and generally admired the views. After we revived and reenergised we cruised back to Katoomba.
After the short drive to the Blue Mountains, luckily the skies cleared and we were left with just some light drizzle. We met Mick and Chris at the bike shop just in time for me (OK Poppy) to fix a puncture on my bike! Puncture fixed, the boys hired bikes and we were good to go.
We headed out of Katoomba past the 3 sisters lookout point and Scenic World. It started off nice and cruisey flying downhill at full speed only to be met by a steep uphill climb. After a short while the tarmac disappeared and we ventured on to dirt.
The track was undulating to say the least, after a lot of nice downhill sections there were a lot of not so nice uphill sections, saying that once we got in to the zone we were doing pretty well. We stopped several times to admire the stunning views below and to take the odd snap.
After about an hour and a half we reached our destination which is a lookout point down towards Warragamba Dam, the view was absolutely stunning, so, we sat down for a short while, ate some lunch and generally admired the views. After we revived and reenergised we cruised back to Katoomba.
The off-road section of the ride is 26km, the entire ride from Katoomba and back took us about 3.5 hours and that included stops…not bad for a beginner hey!
Check back regularly for more updates, Mick and I are going to try and do a ride every weekend til Mongolia!
Check back regularly for more updates, Mick and I are going to try and do a ride every weekend til Mongolia!
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