Shit happens, aye?
The fog gets even thicker as we dip from Fairlie into the Canterbury Plains...and it’s sort of warm for that time of day.
The last full day on the road...howwwll!!....and we want to finish up within about a good hour’s ride from Christchurch, if possible.
So we’re droning up route 72, the Plains Backroad/ Bypass.
I pick the wrong turn-off for the back way into Methven, but we recover via some quick, straight dirtroads, pulling into the servo still under a fog-blanket...but there’s hope, there IS the odd blue hole up there.
Hmmmm....I’m fairly sure of some blue skies above the muck, let’s give Mt. Hutt a whirl, Christchurch’s closest Ski Mountain.
If it turns to shite, we can still head north on hwy72 for some other places.
Jaaaackpot!!
Happy to have all that gravel practice, this crap is like marbles...it’s also quite bumpy and rocky.