https://blog.ryanmoore.au/tags/skipton/This blog is dedicated to my adventures in the great outdoors, fishing trips, hiking routes, camping, etc. as well as a collection of thoughts and interests. It's not all outdoorsy: there's plenty of politics, work/coding, football and other random ~~rants~~ thoughts I have.en-auSun, 07 Apr 2019 19:10:10 +1000https://blog.ryanmoore.au/posts/2019/ballarat-skipton-rail-trail/Sun, 07 Apr 2019 19:10:10 +1000https://blog.ryanmoore.au/posts/2019/ballarat-skipton-rail-trail/<p><img src="https://blog.ryanmoore.au/posts/2019/ballarat-skipton-rail-trail/IMG_3564_hu99257f383f5147459c49e98c70f5bc5b_9413914_1200x0_resize_q75_h2_box.webp" width="1200" height="900" alt="Ballarat–Skipton Rail Trail"></p><p class="lead">Smashed out <em>60 kilometres</em> and had an absolutely beautiful time doing it, riding up the Ballarat–Skipton Rail Trail, a disused railway that’s had its tracks uprooted and fine gravel laid down to provide a pretty wicked little biking/walking/horse trail.</p> <p>I started in Skipton, and immediately the view was magnificent. Rolling hills, state forests, plenty of magpies and kookaburras, at one time I had a little family of kangaroos hopping along the path with me as I rode!! I nearly fell off the bike scrambling for my phone but alas, it’ll have to remain in the memory bank.</p> <p>I pushed pretty hard, and finished the entire trail from go to whoa, then by the time I got home from the finishing point in Western Ballarat I’d knocked out 60 kilometres in about a minute shy of 3 hours straight.</p>