Breakfast Creek and Humble Pie

The Team prior to Humble Pie night

It started as a Gung Ho training trip - XPD style - it quickly unravelled into a hard night out.  It was to be a circuit - 6 Foot track to Dunphys - down Breakfast Creek to the Coxs River - then up Coxs until we hit the 6 Foot and back to the cars.

Hell Hole - a good name

Next, we were to ride up to Blackheath, Katoomba, Narrowneck and Taros Ladders back to the car.

Kolya scrubbing it out

What we actually did - was to spend a long time traversing the rocky terrain of Breakfast Ck - blackness, poor tracks, scrub, slippery rocks and multiple creek crossings meant very slow movement.  

Emma negotiating one of multiple crossings

The Coxs junction was reached at 2am and our plan was aborted - it was apparent, that at the rate we were travelling it would take another 6 - 10 hrs to walk up the Coxs.

Tim enjoying his stroll down Breakfast Creek

A steep ridge - affectionately known as Iron Mongrel was our new exit point - 600m of sharp climbing later, we were on top of Iron Pot Ridge - a piece of terrain well known to all North Face 100 runners!

Happy to be on top of Iron Pot Ridge - 3.30 am

So with our tails between our legs we made it back to the cars an hour before daylight.  We decided to have a quick kip in the car - by doing this we wouldn't need to put lights on our bikes.  And a little rest seemed a good idea - we had been moving constantly for almost 10 hrs.

After an hour of dozing a throbbing knee woke Tim up.  At this point it was obvious that further heroics were out - so we headed up to Blackheath for breakfast and 
a BIG slice of Humble Pie.

We had been thoroughly Breakfast Creeked!

Rubicon at its best - still laffing!