NYD 2005 Mt Clear/Naas ride

Present were:

• Marea England, Ethos boing
• Stephen Murphy, Klein HT
• Jaymz Davies, Green Steel HT
• Celeste, Gary Fisher HT (friend of Jaymz's)
• Neil Dall, Giant NRS Boing
• Nick Miller, Giant VT Boing
• Steven Hanley, Alloy HT

The route we had planned was a car drop off at the Naas/Boboyan intersection near Crash's favourite pick a plank bridge, then drive up to the Mt Clear campground for the start of the ride. From there head over to Horse Gully hut and continue on down the river valler to the Naas firetrail and back to the cars. Lots of downhill, the odd steep pinch, 37 KM in total.

1600x1200 Celeste crossing one of the many rivers, with Nick and Neil in the distance. 1600x1200 Celeste climbing, I took this and the next few photos while riding past people climbing the hill. 1600x1200 Neil. 1600x1200 Nick. 1600x1200 Looking back at the others climbing towards me. 1600x1200 Celeste. 1600x1200 Marea and Jaymz topping the rise. 1600x1200 Stephen struggling up the last few metres. 1600x1200 Not sure what Jaymz is doing here. 1600x1200 Marea and Stephen climbing towards me. 1600x1200 Marea. 1600x1200 Stephen.

1600x1200 Jaymz, Celeste, Neil and Nick posing at horse gully hut. 1600x1200 Marea arriving at horse gully hut. 1600x1200 Stephen arriving also. 1600x1200 Nick at speed. 1600x1200 Marea. 1600x1200 Celeste and Jaymz. 1600x1200 Stephen. 1600x1200 Nick, Neil and Jaymz 1600x1200 Celeste, Marea and Stephen recovering after one of the steeper pinches of the day, I loved the expanse of sky above them so grabbed this photo. 1600x1200 Neil offering snakes around with a yellow floral background. 1600x1200 Marea waving for the camera. 1600x1200 Nick smiling for the camera.

1600x1200 Celeste and Jaymz holding some speed after a descent. 1600x1200 Stephen and Neil. 1600x1200 Neil a little bit too fast for my photo. 1600x1200 Jaymz negotiating another river crossing. 1600x1200 Neil crossing the same river, though we got accross this fine, at the later crossings we gave up and ust got wet feet. 1600x1200 Celeste on the crossing, I stood on some rocks in the middle of the water to get the perspective for these shots. 1600x1200 Marea not up on the rocks like the others had been. 1600x1200 Stephen almost hiding from the camera. As Marea and Stephen approached this river, Marea asked if we had all ridden accross, initialy there were a few answers of No in response, soon followed by a resounding Yes from everyone, strangely neither Marea or Stephen attempted to ride accross after our encouragment. 1600x1200 Lunch stop. 1600x1200 Marea looking towards some impressive rock formations. 1600x1200 Finished and getting refreshed before picking up the other cars from the top. 1600x1200 Jaymz in his dead pose.