Wellington Three Summits

Another doorstep challenge that's worthy of a quick post, mostly to showcase another of James' cool Relive videos: We decided to have a bash at a single day expedition linking up a few classic local mountain bike trails. It's pretty impressive that you can do 50k's and six hours of continuous single track action this close to the city.

 We started in Johnsonville, cycled up to Kaukau then took the Sky Line across to Karori; Went to the top of Makara Peak, then down Leaping Lizard; Up Salvation and on to the Brooklyn Turbine; Via Car Parts Extension and Barking Emu down to Red Rocks. The Relive video below does a better visual job of explaining the journey.

Relive '3 Summits on the Mtb'

We were knackered after the first ascent and ended up doing a pretty reasonable total climb of around 1.5km. Starting out with some style and grace we descended into 'letting the bike do the work' in the latter stages - too tired to avoid rocks, gorse bushes or take appropriate lines. Being this close to civilisation meant there was also no excuse to run out of water, but it was scorching hot and we got distracted by pies and ice cream. Easily done.