We failed miserably
We put in a fair effort though, started at 0930 and finished up around 6ish and the weather was pretty strumptuous - warm and sunny at the bottom, then pissing down rain, then absolute brass monkey at the top of garbo...crazy. The whole of garbo was slop and soaking... In the end I pulled the plug as I was about to fall off my bike with exhaustion and the others conceded. All up we knocked over 34 different tracks with a whole bunch repeated. I should note the to get her done we were trying to knock off all the tracks listed in the official track guide...there are more out there but it's hard to document and tick them off (Renegade, Shale Master, The Manager etc etc)
A-Line race was on also which knocked our end total about - we could have had another five tracks ticked off in the same amount of runs if certain tracks weren't closed (Aline upper/lower/old school/hornet etc).
All up I think we did 4 lower hills (all the hard stuff up front - new canadian open, rock city, joyride etc) then 6 consecutive garbo's including a run from the roundhouse and the finished off with the super stupid french connection/clown shoes...I was chainless by then and hike-a-biked most of it - clown shoes is genuinely the hardest track on the hill, especially in the wet...i'd give it a triple black rating. Interestingly it looked like it hadn't been ridden in the last coupla weeks at all
I think doing the sums we still needed 4 more lower hills and at least one more garbo...the plus being that the lower hill runs the we missed are nearly all green which means you could just about roll them with your eyes shut.
It's definitely possible though - non-crankworx line-ups would be a plus and then you pretty much need to finish a run and then get back on the lift, 1/2hr for lunch and the rest of the time is eaten up doing necessary mechanicals and just plain ole resting.
Even so it was an epically rad day - run of the day (suprisingly as I was dreading it the most) was O-Sin, Goats Gully, Captain Safety, Fatcrobat, Too Tight, Angry Pirate to bottom in the PISSING DOWN RAIN. It was super cold at the top...the liftie almost missed our bikes as no one had been up for nearly half an hour. That added to the experience a little as it felt like (and we genuinely did) have the whole of Garbo to ourselves. Also doing rough sums we think with 6 garbos and 5 lowers we'd be looking at roughly 24000 vertical feet of descent covered today...awesome
