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KIRWANS TRACK

We all dream about our next weekend away. Ideas are thrown around during the weekly group ride or post ride brew. For me, ideas stem from another rider saying, ‘have you ridden such and such trail, or been into ‘x’ hut?’ From here the seeds are sown for your classic mountain bike weekender.

Back in the day you’d pull out a topo map and spread it out over the kitchen table, cuppa in hand. Now you’re more likely to pull out a tablet and bring up your favourite topo or trail app and start the planning process. A few months back I did just this. Kirwans Track had been

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