Tee Pee trail

Jase had a plan to head out yesterday to test his new camera with me being the test dummy. We were greeted by some gentle misty rain and surprisingly warm conditions. The ride plan was dialed in and we headed out through our old haunt of 100 acres and then went to our first location. This was new trail for me and I was impressed with the little loop that had some nice sweeping corners (just have to remove some deadfall next time) and a few nasty hills. The bike was spot on with the 32/20 gearing and the abdo strain wasnt complaining to much so perfecto! Jase has been having issues with getting his trigger finger and new toy to work but the photo's improved as the morning wore on.
We continued through Fourth Hill and into Warrandtye. Jase has always talked about the Tee Pee trail which I thought I had ridden before. I knew where it came out but was unsure of his entry point. So after climbing some fun roadside trail we descended into the riverside and into the trailhead which has some Tee Pee action. I gather these are saunas or something of the like were some of the locals get their mojo on.
The trail was tight and technical to start with with a few to many logs to hop over (we did place a few peices of deadfall to aid us in getting over these bad boys!) plus the rain was weighing down the undergrowth making it hard to see the trail. I admit it was a fair effort on the singlespeeds to get over the middle part of the trail in one direction but the trail then opened up into a lovely section of flowing trail following the river. We continued to follow the river and eventually popped out on to a section of fire trail which eventually connects to blacktop. We have noted that this will be our route to get connect up trail to get to Smiths and onto Kinglake that Matt is so keen to do.
So after reconnecting in reverse order, and a little house keeping along the trail we headed home. It was a great little trail that I had forgotten about. The next plan will be to see if we can find a connector to Smiths via some roadside single track.
Jase's photo's turned out pretty good. Below are some of the images and I have used one in the header of the blog. As you can see some of the trail was spot on, shame about the weather but it could have been far worse!







Tuesday see's the second round of the Night Crits run by Flat Hill, so get on down for some fun nocturnal racing.
Happy riding!