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Gidday

Nearly finished painting the outside of the house. It was a good opportunity to review our forest fire preparedness (we back onto Wombat Forest) in the light of the recent and current disastrous fires. Concluded that we can make quite a few improvements and need to change some aspects.
 
On Total Fire Ban days I venture into the forest but try and keep within a km or so of good egress roads on the forest perimeter. Outside of that anything is on including my favourites – the various Great Dividing Trails. While each trail can be ridden in sections, they are perfectly suited to full day rides.

I will post one GDT trail section each month. In sequence they will probably be;

Bendigo – Castlemaine known as the Leanganook. This is the only GDT trail that is suited to ride one way and train the other way.

Castlemaine – Daylesford known as the Dry Diggings. My personal favourite.

Daylesford – Creswick – Ballarat – Buninyong. This was the Federation now it is the Wallaby and it is the longest.

Daylesford – Blackwood, The Lerderderg. This trail continues onto Bacchus Marsh now but a large section is not permissible for mountain bikes so I have not yet ridden past Blackwood.

For each trail I’ll let you know how to avoid the few walking only sections and sections that are not conducive to recreational trail riding.

Hasta la vista

Ken