Who let the Dogs out?! 30/12/2017 Garden Route Ride

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In the Planning a Ride thread, a post appeared by MiniDan, asking about Garden Route Dogs and Rides. Chris L had done a ride around Stilbaai a while ago and I'd had to miss it, and Tony mentioned he'd be doing his "overheat" last-day-of-the-year ride, which I also wanted to do, so I submitted my cell number for the WhatsApp group, arranged my accommodation, and waited. Then the message came in:

"OK, so who's available for a lekker, tough, long ride on the 30th?"

How tough?

"A couple of technical sections, but nothing too bad. Just going to be a very long days ride... ;)"

MiniDan wasn't lying either - it was a long day, starting at 08:00 on a surprisingly chilly morning, through a very hot midday and ending in cooling misty coastal rains in the very late afternoon. In between there was wide dusty gravel highways, gnarly rocky, rutted technical sections, deep valleys and high hills.

We almost had to mutiny around lunch time to grab a bite to eat at Riversdal, because MiniDan apparently lives on dusty air - no lunch had been factored into this ride ::)

Our final route:

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