hey cool Joe!

We live about 10 mins from Daylesford on the edge of the Wombat Forest
which is great for off road uni rides. I don't ride around Castlemaine
much as the forest here is outside the front door vs a drive to
Castlemaine, plus it's cooler (temperature-wise) here, greener, more
water and hills, and generally less pillaged by gold mining, more
logging though.

The Daylesford-Hepburn-Mt Franklin section is neat, 24" country for me,
best avoided on weekends due to bush walkers visiting the mineral
springs. I'm fairly sure that stretch of land is managed by a different
government body, officially 'no bikes' but is a fairly popular ride for
locals.

The GDT organization seem fairly sympathetic (or at least realistic) re
bike use of the trail overall:
http://gdt.org.au/GDTA/Track_Development
and are holding a meeting this month in Daylesford re use and promotion
of the GDT for MTB etc. I'm planning on going to fly the muni flag

If the weather holds up this week I'm hoping to ride the
Daylesford-Blackwood section. I've criss-crossed parts of it on other
rides, should be awesome!

I meant to say in my first post - if anyone is interested in a ride
around these parts and would like some local info to help plan it, or
someone to ride with etc, drop me a line. Always up for some uni
adventure!

ps. I've added a couple more pics of the Mt Franklin-Castlemaine trail.
I didn't take many unfortunately as I started the ride in the afternoon,
was a bit of a squeeze time-wise, got into Castlemaine just on dark -
DOH!


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