Fresh Trails

There’s something especially cool about riding fresh trails for the first time! Fresh trails are like fresh hot jam donuts… SWEET!

Old Friends

Getting out on trails you haven’t ridden on for a long time… it’s a bit like catching up with old friends. Looking forward to doing more of that!

Redesdale MTB Trails

Getting out to the mountain bike trails at Redesdale has been sitting on the list of things I’ve gotta get around to doing for a while now, a bit lame since Redesdale is only 30k or so from Castlemaine. I’ve been attempting to manage my riding better this year – riding three times a week […]

Early Birds

Fun early ride with Guy and Andy from Melbourne around Baco and the trails heading across towards Barkers Creek. Followed up by a cool down in the pool. Tough way to start the day!

Coco Pops

01 01 2012. Awoke to find the earth’s crust still intact, went out for an early morning MTB ride, followed by coco pops for breakfast. Hope the year hasn’t peaked too soon! 😛

Regrowth

It’s been a while! With all the changes during 2011 looks like there’ll be no shortage of regrowth in the year ahead, for both the bush and the hippie.

Fuel Reduction Burn

The bush around Castlemaine has been in fine form this Spring, pumping full of new growth, wildflowers and critters after the drought breaking rain last Summer. Ironically Spring also coincided with the posting of burning operation notices on trees here and there, to occur before the Summer fire season weather permitting. Bittersweet really. The imminent […]

Light Ride

Things have been kinda quiet in hippie land the last few weeks. I’ve been heading down to Melbourne once a week for treatment on my neck and as part of that have been doing my best to behave. On the neck movement scale of 1-4 it rated 0-1 initially, now up to 2. It still […]