Date:
Monday, February 6, 2017
Miles:
28
Bike:
Disc Trucker
Out and back on a lovely rail-to-trail. Smooth gravel following the Karangahake Gorge. Lots of people out mostly on mountain bikes. Part of the trail was not on the rail bed and offered some nice swoops and turns. The country was very interesting. Sometimes it looked like Oregon, other times California, and then you come smack into a forest of tree ferns.
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Past the farmland and into the bush.
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The river could have been in Oregon.
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The tunnel was a 1.1 kilometer typical rail tunnel. Cool and dripping. This one was quite a bit narrower than others I've been through.
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There was a narrow cut that was lush with ferns.
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The old train station. There was still a tourist train running from here.
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Tree ferns are amazing.