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    THE TORLESSE GAP

    Oct 10, 2018 5 minutes
    Words & Images | Richard Goldsbury

    It’s 8am Saturday. I’m an hour and a half along an alpine ridgeline I climbed up to last night and have realised I’ve left the sun cream in the car. If I turn back I could ride the fantastic Craigieburn trails; if I go on I’ll still be fighting a crosswind too strong to be able to ride nicely, even on the return descent, and by that time I’ll be sunburnt and dehydrated. But I’ve spent a lot of the last 16 years looking over the Castle Hill Basin at the Torlesse Range, particularly the gap, and have only had a few journeys a little way along the other end of the range, so I trudge on.

    My family had gone away for a few days, giving

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