First time at Thredbo in 15 years. I forgot just how steep it is! It rained enough to make a lot of wet stuff early in the day, I haven't ridden wet and slippery for many years so there were plenty of arse clenching moments. The All Mountain bottom half is closed, Ricochet was a mud fest, as was any part in the forest pretty much until lunchtime. Flow was relentless berms, harder work than I expected again for me due to the gradient and slippery stuff.
We decided to do the Cannonball, last time was in about '05 on a rental DH. I'm not sure if I was just less worried about drops or if every steep rocky bit now has a foot drop from erosion at the end that wasn't there before, bit of both I suspect and the Bronson is still not as DH as a DH bike from 15 years back. For the first time ever I wanted the 40mm of dropper that pokes out to be gone! Got into a rocky section after the flat bit with the big table top where it goes beside the Flow, with my foot clipped out from a dab around the previous corner, couldn't get it in before I found a line and had to find an escape over the bars. Did a perfect high step off and landed about 5 feet below on my right foot and bruised the arch. Got ice on it right away and called it a day, things were getting drier but I wasn't going up with a sore foot. Soaked it in the river for 15 mins and it came pretty good overnight with a couple of Beerofen painkillers. I'm retired from Canonnball. I loved the All Mountain though, top section is like a Cannonball light with some challenging but not as hectic stuff. Bummed that the bottom was closed as my mates said that was their fave bit of Thredbo trail.
Next morning was TVT, foot was good enough in the SPuD shoe so I did just the Lake Crackenback leg, which would mean two people not doing the second half and easy shuttling of two cars. That's a trail. It's awesome in every way. Apparently I missed the better downhill sections on the second half but I was cooked and wouldn't have made it. Finished with a dip in Lake Jindabyne.