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Monday Oct 5, 2020 #
mt bike 4:24:00 [3] 88.0 km (3:00 / km) +600m 2:54 / km
Day 5 Mt Pleasant – Gawler
While Stacey & Jo were heading to Murray Bridge on C2M I was riding back to my car at Gawler. We rode into Mt P together where we came across 4 guys who were on an overnighter from Adelaide. I then headed out to the forest & decided to climb to Mt Pleasant summit in an effort to get warm. I then meandered over to Mt Crawford itself, past Wirra Wirra and Pewsey Vale peaks to take the Mawson trail down Steingarten tk. Great views though a bit muted given overcast weather. Onto Tanunda, where I sheltered from a rain shower, then back roads to Lyndoch, then Barossa rail trail & Dead Man’s Pass trails back to my car.
While Stacey & Jo were heading to Murray Bridge on C2M I was riding back to my car at Gawler. We rode into Mt P together where we came across 4 guys who were on an overnighter from Adelaide. I then headed out to the forest & decided to climb to Mt Pleasant summit in an effort to get warm. I then meandered over to Mt Crawford itself, past Wirra Wirra and Pewsey Vale peaks to take the Mawson trail down Steingarten tk. Great views though a bit muted given overcast weather. Onto Tanunda, where I sheltered from a rain shower, then back roads to Lyndoch, then Barossa rail trail & Dead Man’s Pass trails back to my car.
Sunday Oct 4, 2020 #
mt bike 6:34:00 [3] 98.0 km (4:01 / km) +1040m 3:49 / km
Day 4 Eudunda – Mt Pleasant
I had formulated plans A, B, C, & D for this day, as torrential rain had been forecast when we left! And Jo said that she would pray for good weather! Updated forecast last night was that it would rain about 10/11am so we planned to start at 7am, (despite an hour less sleep due to daylight saving start) & do the 38kms to Truro at least. Morning forecast had moved the rain until later, so that was pleasing.
I think that Eudunda to Truro is the best C2M section for the variety of track surfaces & roads less travelled, with scenic highlights being the many ruins, Neales Flat churches & Dutton village. Heppner rd. is my favourite. Sunrise bakery at Truro was our breakfast stop.
We headed onward following the convoluted C2M course, through the arty town of Moculta. Then visited the Irish Catholic Shannon family Mausoleum (built in 1875 & gifted to Moculta Historical Society in 2010), the Gnadenberg Lutheran Church with its pretty trimmed hedges, manse and stables – (all churches are Lutheran in this area) & had lunch on the roadside just outside Keyneton. My Garmin had somewhere changed its settings & was only showing the map where turns occurred, so I couldn’t look ahead without continuing tapping the screen. Annoying.
Grabbed water at the Keyneton PO (boxes only) & continued on our not so merrily way into increasingly southerly headwinds & building clouds. Stacey liked the look of the Brokenchack winery accommodation. Jo was not impressed with the Peggy Hill rd. climb & was swearing at Peggy. Emerging back into civilization at Eden Valley, not even an open pub could entice the Bros to stop. We had been riding in a “fine weather bubble “with low clouds and rain all around us but there was no doubt that our bubble was about to be enveloped as the plummeting temperature attested.
So, we decided to divert off the dirt & rush towards Mt Pleasant via the bitumen, which luckily had a decent shoulder. Pity that it was mostly uphill, including the steep climb out of Springton & into a gale force southerly wind. Struggle street in mist & low visibility. But we all made the effort to ride the final dirt climb to Stacey’s “Aunty Betties” residence.
I had formulated plans A, B, C, & D for this day, as torrential rain had been forecast when we left! And Jo said that she would pray for good weather! Updated forecast last night was that it would rain about 10/11am so we planned to start at 7am, (despite an hour less sleep due to daylight saving start) & do the 38kms to Truro at least. Morning forecast had moved the rain until later, so that was pleasing.
I think that Eudunda to Truro is the best C2M section for the variety of track surfaces & roads less travelled, with scenic highlights being the many ruins, Neales Flat churches & Dutton village. Heppner rd. is my favourite. Sunrise bakery at Truro was our breakfast stop.
We headed onward following the convoluted C2M course, through the arty town of Moculta. Then visited the Irish Catholic Shannon family Mausoleum (built in 1875 & gifted to Moculta Historical Society in 2010), the Gnadenberg Lutheran Church with its pretty trimmed hedges, manse and stables – (all churches are Lutheran in this area) & had lunch on the roadside just outside Keyneton. My Garmin had somewhere changed its settings & was only showing the map where turns occurred, so I couldn’t look ahead without continuing tapping the screen. Annoying.
Grabbed water at the Keyneton PO (boxes only) & continued on our not so merrily way into increasingly southerly headwinds & building clouds. Stacey liked the look of the Brokenchack winery accommodation. Jo was not impressed with the Peggy Hill rd. climb & was swearing at Peggy. Emerging back into civilization at Eden Valley, not even an open pub could entice the Bros to stop. We had been riding in a “fine weather bubble “with low clouds and rain all around us but there was no doubt that our bubble was about to be enveloped as the plummeting temperature attested.
So, we decided to divert off the dirt & rush towards Mt Pleasant via the bitumen, which luckily had a decent shoulder. Pity that it was mostly uphill, including the steep climb out of Springton & into a gale force southerly wind. Struggle street in mist & low visibility. But we all made the effort to ride the final dirt climb to Stacey’s “Aunty Betties” residence.