I didn't bother to write a report for this at the time, but I need to put the photos somewhere...

We were basically following the "Mt Robertson Roller" ride description from page 31 of Keiran Ryan's Off Road Cycling Adventures book, taking in an awesome downhill we found two weeks earlier when we got lost on the same ride.

The book really should be ammended. On page 32, change the lines that say:

15.8km 'Y' fork, keep to the right.
16.2km PSA past Strip Rd...

to

15.8km 'Y' fork, keep to the LEFT. Cross the small creek at the bottom of the hill, then start a long firetrail climb. After a right-hand hairpin (maybe 1.5km into the climb), the firetrail goes fairly straight for a hundred metres or so. Keep an eye out for the singletrack off to the right. Take it. It starts gently, then gets steeper and steeper, eventaually dropping you, literally, back at the creek.
Climb back up to the aforementioned 'Y' fork, take a sharp left.
16.2km (plus a couple) PSA past Strip Rd....

Anyway, it is a great ride, and the area has lots of potential for further exploration. Should get the topo map.

Unloading bikes at the carpark. The ground doesn't look as muddy in the compressed photo as it really was.

Rich, Joey and Jason race each other down a narrow track...

...and come to the creek at the bottom.

Dave and Mel coming down the same hill.

Jason leads the charge down the extra downhill we found. The singletrack is rutted and chewed up, assumedly by trail bikes climbing it.

Dave and Rich disappear down the slope. By the time I packed my camera up and got back on my bike, I didn't get any shots of people on the scary bits at the bottom. Apparently some of them even rode it all...

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