Today we left the magical village of queenstown, in search of more
sweet trails and good coffee in the little town of Wanaka.
On the way though we stopped at the historic Arrowtown, which is cute
to the enth degree. I could live in Arrowtown, despite the fact that
it is another nz town surviving on the salenof stuffed sheep and ugh
boots.
Anyway, somehow wanaka reminds me of, like amity from the movie Jaws.
I am not sure why, considering the water is a big lake, which is
surrounded by snow capped mountains. But anyway...
We rode the sticky forest this afternoon for 2 1/2 hours, a very small
mtb park carved into a pine forest. Makes it a soft landing if you
come off. It's a weird sandy, soft dirt there-drift a Rama. We rode
some of the black diamond runs- some were just really steep with ruts,
others had avoidable gap jumps, and others had a scary north shore
section with 8 foot drops—yikes!!
But on the whole, pretty fun. Lots of whooping great fun berms, like
Majura.
Also discovered GIANT licorice allsorts at New World today...mmm
