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Originally Posted by RichieRich
General consensus is counter clockwise is more fun. That way it’s a long long mostly gradual climb (with a few pitches) to the top. A long screaming bone shaker downhill (lots of loose and baby-head rocks) and a crazy fast corner that you should NOT miss. Make sure you take the correct trail at that point. Then a good fun few kms of swoops up and down single track. After the floods they’ve added a new bridge across the river that is quite awesome and worth stopping at. Then you have about 10km of Uber fast big gear smashing high speed back to your parking area. Round trip is about 44km. If you can do it in close to 2hrs you’re a star speed nut. Most riders do it in about 3’ish hours moving time. I’ve also been in a turtle group that took about 6-7 hours and that was brutal.
It’s quite remote with no short cut out so take the necessary extras for food repair and clothing.
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Great description, I know you are talking about Elbow Loop without even reading the original comment.