This used to be what the 3 hills climb used to look like, didn't even recognise it last time I went back during the Comm Games.
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This used to be what the 3 hills climb used to look like, didn't even recognise it last time I went back during the Comm Games.
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Some of it still looks like that, almost exactly. I know that spot on the first hill bit above the Comm Games ascending Loop 1. Maybe it is a bit nastier now though.
To answer your question about NES and 911; it's going to be a 1-2 hour plus ride to link those 2 trails together unless you wear spandex.... and if you do WTF would you want to do 911 for, other than for uphill torment (I mean challenge)?
So, get out Trailforks and I am presuming you want to do 911 downhill. Here we go with some digressions:
Option 1: Take a deep breath......From the Velodrome go up to the roundabout at the junction of Casuarina, Comm Games Loop 1 and 3 Hills. The bottom of the Comm Games first loop is the most obvious trail entrance as you leave the Velodrome, but it is descending only. The singletrack uphill options are just riders right of it. You have the obvious uphill fire road or singletrack via Casuarina link (2nd left off the trail from the bottom) or the bottom bit of Three Hills (first left) to choose from out of the Velodrome. Look up if you use Three Hills bottom because we made it for a last blast to the Velodrome. From the roundabout cross the fire road to Exit Trail. Choose either Exit or Goanna.
For some reason Trailforks shows Goanna as Exit and vice Versa. Exit is the more tech trail to the right crossing under Barney's and Goanna is the lower link to Roy's Trail which no longer exists on Trailforks. Roy Hickman is a pioneer of Nerang trails and deserves his trail. It's still Roy's to us. At the end of Exit or Roy's you come to another roundabout. Regardless of Trailforks calling it Goanna Loop, this is Happy Valley Trail. Turn right toward Wombats trail. (You can get to the same place using Upper Happy Valley and the pirate trail off it by turning right off Exit Trail 50m before the roundabout and then left after 100m onto the pirate trail, or even earlier by turning right onto the same pirate trail only 50m after passing Barney's bottom.) Regardless, take the first (look for the gnomes in the tree) or next entrance into Wombats up to Bailey's just the Nerang side of B&B's. Turn right onto Baileys, or the fire road and go about 150m before crossing the fire road into Explosions on the northern side. Follow Explosions across 2 fire roads (the first at the dead end above the quarry). Stay straight ahead until after the second fire road. You are on Never ending Story. There's a fast downhill section and then you have to turn left at the intersection to avoid Super Loop (etc). You can then either look for a sneaky escape across the Centre Fire Road after about 1km and turn left onto Bailey's and ride about 250m to 911, or follow NES straight ahead for another 3-4km to the Centre Fire Road, cross it and use Vertigo to Baileys (for about about 2km or so to 911 on your right. At the bottom of 911 turn left onto Netti back to the rainforest end of Happy Valley (Goanna Loop on Trailforks), or if knackered go out of the National Park onto the Brookfield Reserve Link for a country cruise back to Yarrayne Fire Road, re-enter the National Park and then back the way you came to the Velodrome or out to Yarrayne Road and tarmac. Breath now - you may need to.
Second faster option without Never Ending Story: Get to happy Valley and either ride it or the green spaghetti in the middle to Elevator. Ride 100m vert up Elevator (watch for riders coming down), across lower Bailey's and then cross the fire road onto the old upper Baileys, now officially the only Bailey's and it's about 1km to 911. If you want to do NES as well, then cross the Centre Fire Road to your right as you reach the top of Elevator/Baileys into a link that reaches the start of NES, Pandora and Explosions. Turn left after 100m and follow the instructions above.
Enjoy