Thread: TR: Thredbo

There is nothing sadder in this world than the waste of human potential. The purpose of evolution is to raise us out of the mud, not have us grovelling in it.
Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider, Northern Exposure, Cicely, 1992

I’m pretty stoked on 2009 - it’s been a good year so far and hopefully it keeps getting better. Generating the stoke was a great NYE (followed by a not so great hangover), a few good tours in Hakuba despite the wind, then a chick emailed me out of the blue and wants to go on a date on Tuesday (yes i’m ignoring the fact that she probably has an ulterior motive), there’s all sorts of new talent at the climbing gym, and I got myself a new rig last week. I am the rocker, I am the roller, I am the out-of-controller!

I took the new rig to Thredbo, 500km (4.5hrs) southwest of Sydney in the Snowy [sic] Mountains. Like many alpine resorts, summers can actually be better than winters and Thredbo is probably no exception. In the lovely village carpark where I set up car-camp, there’s folks with DH rigs, XC rigs, playboats, fly-fishing gear, and a lot of bush-walkers/climbers.

“Pinky, why Thredbo?” you ask.

Well imaginary person, I’m glad you asked. The village is at 1400m and stays about 8° cooler than Sydney which is meaningful when you are a hairy beast of a man. AND they have lift-access DH...the only other place with lift-access DH in OZ is Mt Bueller in VIC (which at 800km is a little too much self-reflection time for Pinky). I am sincerely stoked on the area, and would be more stoked if it were easier to get to.

Anyhou, I rode with Manly locals and nice guy extraordinaires Steve, Trent, and Shep. Very good dudes I was happy to have met. The course is nice and flowy with plenty of bumps and rock gardens but no mandatory air or drops (there is only one line). With 8.8” of travel in the new rig, a nice flowy course is basically like riding tits deep in pow and I was hooting the whole way down (x8).

South East MTB Co will sort out the mandatory initiation (one-time only) and guide you for one lap.



She sips nitro... with Phase 4 heads! 600 horsepower through the wheels! She's meanness set to music and the bitch is born to run!


Steve aka The Road Warrior


Liftchairs, the greatest invention since pop-rocks


The Road Warrior


Pinky in the rocks


It used to seem like everybody i knew was moving to Colorado. Now it seems like everbody i know is moving to North Carolina. Shep's a Southern Man.


Pinky - making easy things look hard.


It's that rat circus out there, I'm beginning to enjoy it.


The Road Warrior loved this drop to rockgarden


Free freeclimbing. Only in OZ


What it's all about. The Road Warrior and Shep all smiles.


We got drunk and trapped a duck. I have no explanation for this.

Awesome to see a TR from Oz. Gotta make it over there one of these days.

Hard to believe there are only 2 lift-served resorts there in the summer considering all the DH talent yall have. Just nuts.

great TR. thanks for the stoke.
and nice duck.

The big barrier to serious mountain biking in Australia is that the bikes are just eye wateringly expensive (well, that and the climate and terrain). It's good to see DH catching on though, maybe prices will go down as the volume of riders goes up.

I miss the snowys now. nice TR

Originally Posted by Particle

Awesome to see a TR from Oz. Gotta make it over there one of these days.

Hard to believe there are only 2 lift-served resorts there in the summer considering all the DH talent yall have. Just nuts.

i think there's less than a dozen ski resorts in the whole country and most are in National Park so they are environmentally hypersensitive. so the ratio is actually not all that bad.

Originally Posted by stillnoprogress

i think there's less than a dozen ski resorts in the whole country and most are in National Park so they are environmentally hypersensitive. so the ratio is actually not all that bad.

don't get me started on parks and wildlife........... only two resorts that run the lifts for DH yet PWL can do all sorts of messed up things.....PM me for details