I talked the Saturday lads into a MTB ride after all the road we've been doing lately.

We went on a 3 hr return trip through plantation and native forest on 4WD tracks and a little single track up into the hills just behind town with a 10 minute walk down into a gully to see a waterfall at the turnaround.

My chain broke two minutes into the return journey, but there were a couple of chain breakers on hand luckily or it would have been a long walk on the uphill and flat bits going back. One of the other blokes got a snake bite puncture descending through some largish rocks as well. That's MTB riding for you though. My ride tool kit now includes my chain breaker L.

There was a very slow section of descent that was mossy and slippery enough to offer no traction on the way up. I could hardly even stay on my feet to walk it going up. Luckily we went on Saturday as it absolutely peed down on Sunday, and it would have been like skittles but with blokes on bikes