When You Don't Know

The imagination takes over when the unknown is to be considered. El Dorado or Utopia are good examples. My case is a little closer to home.

For years I have been riding a route where some people have said that they would return by Mountain Creek Road. Well I knew where this road was, it was to the west, where the mountains were, where the hillbillies lived and where only the strongest of riders went. Not for me as I imagined one in ten climbs and gravel roads with rocks the size of boulders.

Then one day, looking at a local map, I noticed that Mountain Ck Rd came within a few kilometer of my home and thought here is an opportunity to check this road out, so off I set to the water sewerage treatment plant, and from there, it would be a simple matter of crossing the Murrimbidgee and track up to this mysterious road.

Unfortunately, when I got to the sewerage works, I found cliffs and impenetrable terrain so gave up, this merely reinforced my perceptions. Later found a longer route via tracks marked on a map, and then using Google Maps, was able to navigate to just west of the river, but Google Maps came up with "Limit of Maps". This road was getting more terrible by the day.

A plan was hatched to ride to Mountain Ck Rd. A friend came back after traveling the route by 4WD and warned of some steep, read walking, sections. Then a lady friend of age about 50 told me her boyfriend had given her a ride on his motorbike and reached the ton (in miles per hour) on Mountain Ck Rd. This didn't make sense to my perceived state of the road.

Anyway, to cut a long story short, we rode off a couple of days ago and while the riding was hard to get there, once there, the road turned out to be a flat bituminous high speed road with no traffic.

Perceptions can be misleading!