Typical Strathbogies...boulder country!
And balm for the soul with empty roads and farmtracks, and a near total absence of people and traffic of any kind!!
Just north of Terip Terip
Tacking north
Dancing the bends on the Longwood-Ruffy Rd.
Nature-built
Human-built
Looks like they'll be popping the roof-nails at the White Hart Pub in Longwood soon...
Thanks to the OpenRoad Tourers for an enjoyable lunch, the laughs and yarns...a happy hour-and-a-half filled with
stories of bikes and travels, roads and places.
(sorry to hear that an another Strom bit the dust on their way home, at least the rider came out of it with just a bit of bark lost and some bits that'll turn
pretty colourful soon).
Turning back towards home, the sun is hiding behind a thin veil of clouds, everything turns pale, opaque or pastel.
Gap Rd. climbs into the nearby hills.
Past Upton Hill and it's wind-turbine, Upton Rd. follows along the spine of a line of hills past an ever increasing sprawl of vineyards.
The views to the north and south are spectacular, even on a not-quite-perfect day.
The easy gravel...and magic views... continue along Tarcombe Rd.
...while the Wickett Hill isn't a wicked hill anymore.
It hasn't lost any of its charme, though... which also includes a short but rough-ish, shallow + slimy-slippery creek-crossing, just enough to keep most roadie-riff-raff out
The near invisible, deep, sandy patch at the bottom of the hill has been stabilized with some coarse rock...no more "shiaaat" and eyes-like-dunny-lids anymore.