sadsacnews2014: SADSAC: Warragul Weekend 22/23 February.

A top weekend was enjoyed by some fifteen riders for a two day tour of West Gippsland. The Sadsac team was joined by five riders from Tramps who rode both days. Of note was the large number of couples at the event although Liz's friend Anthony, from Queensland, was not allowed to ride having crashed out badly in training earlier in the week.
Despite not being overly long, both days were challenging with Dave finding some suitably bumpy terrain to test us all. The first day started out on the Two Towns Trail. This high quality path is a good example of what can be achieved to join up two towns that are not too removed from each other. Once through a rather busy Drouin it was off to the north and into the hills. The town of Jindivick seemed to arrive at the top of the collection of climbs. It turned out to be a good place to rest and have lunch. The afternoon run back to Warragul was mainly downhill and was enjoyed by most.
Afternoon tea and a BBQ dinner was held in the well appointed recreation room.
The second day started a bit earlier and it proved a good thing as the temperature was starting to climb by the end. The route was reversed with the run through Nilma North first up to front load the day. Even so we ended up with a morning tea stop at Shady Creek to delay lunch. We had hardly recovered from coffee and cake when Yarragon appeared and lunch. After lunch it was off to the south of the freeway for the return. It became apparent about halfway back that the usually reliable Dave had a few problems with the local streets. The end result being a few more K's and a number of sizable climbs. Once all these bumps were behind us it was a high speed dash back into town.
The overall feeling was that the weekend had been a big success and Dave was talking of a possible return next year.
The first few pictures feature a young couple off around Australia on well equipped bikes. They had spent Friday night at the caravan park and were grilled about the equipment.