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Status History


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Amber
5 years

Please don’t ride the single track for a few days. It’s really really REALLY wet!
Probably needs a week!

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Green
5 years

Good

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Green
6 years

Green

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Green
6 years

Gahnia is open again. Be careful as the track is strewn with leaf litter, making it a bit slippery in sections.

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Red
6 years

Closed areas: Gahnia mountain bike track closed

Gahnia mountain bike track is closed for track maintenance. This closure may be extended and any extension will be posted as soon as...

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Red
6 years

Gonna be closed this weekend due to burn off was already signs up this afternoon with tape across Gahnia trail

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Green
6 years

All good.

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Amber
6 years

Possums - Berms have dried up significantly and soil is in the perfect condition for grip on turns. Only some mud left but it can be avoided.

Mistress - Couldn't see a puddle in sight....

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Green
6 years

Serrata and Ghania are both dry and in good nick. Small damp spots in the usual expected places.

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Green
7 years

Bluff Track and Gahnia Track in surprisingly good condition today. Some wet rocks but very little standing water.
Return on Bantry Bay Fire Trail wet / standing water in places.
Avoided...

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Amber
7 years

Trail runners everywhere! Even on serrata!

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Green
7 years

Bone Dry across all trails - Serrata, Gahnia, Possum, Daisy Duke etc

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Amber
7 years

Ghania will be closed from 7am this Sunday (20th Nov) for trail maintenance. If all goes to plan this will be the first of regular maintenance days where riders will be able to help maintain the...

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Green
7 years

Serrata & Ghania both dry as and mostly in good condition.

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Green
7 years

Bantry Bay is finally dring out, with only the occasional muddy section. Trail fairies appear to have been doing some work. Watch out for the magpie swooping Rangers Retreat and Bantry Bay Roads...

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Green
7 years

Open as per NPWS website

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Red
7 years

Most trails in Garigal NP are still closed:

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Red
7 years

Went for a walk around Serrata this afternoon. Its clear of fallen trees but the top section is wet with puddles. The bottom is only damp and draining well. Cook Street fire trail has a number of...

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Green
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Amber
7 years

Seratta, Daisy Duke, Gahnia and The Mistress are all fine to ride, even after the rain this morning.

Called Amber as Possums has some really boggy sections. and probably needs a rest....

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Green
8 years

All is well
Rode Serrata and some fire trail in the area, all is well. The park seems to drain quite quickly so despite recent rain, everything was completely dry

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Amber
8 years

Rode Gahnia yesterday & it was fine.
Possums has a few puddles.
Kev has no puddles but 1 or 2 boggy sections.
Puddles have returned in the usual places on the fire trail between...

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Green
8 years

All good this morning. No traces of rubbish from last weeks running event.

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Amber
8 years

This Sunday morning between 6 & 10 am the whole of the Possum will be closed so that 500 odd runners can rundown in it the wrong direction.

Yes you did read that right. A profit based...

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Green
8 years

All trails in Bantry Bay are in reasonable condition.

Serrata trail is wet at the top but otherwise dry or damp. Gahnia Fire trail section is dry with a couple of large puddles. No closed...

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Amber
8 years

Serrata is clear of fallen trees. After the heavy rain last night the top of the track is very wet with running water and puddles. The botton of the track is damp. National Parks has no closed...

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Amber
8 years

tree down on Serrata along traverse. can be spotted a long way off so of no danger.
still a muddy at the top of The Mistress connecting trail and a few muddy patches on Possum. Should be dry...

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Red
8 years

From Trailcare:...

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Amber
8 years

must be wet. best to avoid for a few days

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Green
8 years

Dry and in good nick. Rode (erm, walked) Serrata, good traction. Daisy Duke and Mistress are also looking good.

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Green
8 years

Serrata and Ghania are in perfect condition... the Trail Scape crew should be commended for building such awesome trails!
Daisy Duke is OK; little bit of water at the base of the trail but...

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Green
8 years

Serrata and Gahnia are all good. Possums 95% dry. Mistress is dry expect the very top but has been a bit damaged throughout with people riding it after the rain. Daisy good but the first left...

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Amber
8 years

Serrata and Gahnia wet in a few parts but generally good. Possums, Daisy and the Mistress all could use a few dry days to avoid damage. Big puddles on fire trails.

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Green
8 years

Serrata, Gahnia, Daisy Duke, and the Mistress all good. Possums could use a day of sun to dry out with a few decent puddles. A few big puddles on the usual parts of the fire trails.

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Green
8 years

All good; dry and flowing! The mistress is also starting to bed in nicely.

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Green
8 years

No problems, no puddles or branches.

BTW, a VERY technical track. Hardly a blue square in my book. But a great trail for advanced riders, I found as I tried it for the first time today....

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Green
8 years

Rode all of the tracks around Bantry Bay (except Gahnia) and they are all fine, very few puddles. There is a tree down on the Engravings Track at the Manly end and a dammed magpie is swooping...

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Red
8 years

At the right side of Wakehurst Parkway, going towards manly, the track has been closed off with lots of sticks and branches. This has only recently happened as i was there a few weeks ago and it...

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Green
8 years

Rode Serrata and Daisy Duke this morning. Both in good nick.

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Green
8 years

Rode Serrata, Daisy Dukes, Ghania and Possums this arvo and while there are still a couple of spots where water is running, the tracks are 99% dry. As noted elsewhere, Eurofest is currently...

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Green
8 years

All good although perhaps avoid the southern end of Possums

Serrata; little bit of water at the top of the fire trail and single trail.
Daisy has some light water at the bottom
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Green
8 years

Rode KC, Mis, DD and Serrata trails yesterday (27 Aug), all are a little damp but fine to ride. Serrata is open per the National Parks Website:...

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Green
8 years

All good this morning.

Freshly backburnt along the western side of the Currie Rd fire trail near the top but no issues at all for riding.

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Red
8 years

Went to ride Serrata this morning and was closed for fire management. Not sure about Gahnia but didn't see anyone coming up the hill from the bottom so it is likely closed today too. Anyway the...

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Green
8 years

Serrata and Gahnia Tracks are both dry, open per the National Parks website:...

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Green
8 years

Closure removed from NPWS site.

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Red
8 years

Serrata and Gahnia both both closed till Tuesday. The sign below is at the trail entry for both.

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Amber
8 years

-Ghania is dry and perfectly rideable. What a damn good trail. Be aware of new work on the fire trail into Ghania.
-Austrian Enduro is closed and today there was machinery placing rocks on...

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Amber
8 years

See warning on use of unauthorized trails

Applies from Mon 15 Jun 2015, 12.02pm to Fri 31 Jul 2015, 12.02pm. Last reviewed: Tue 16 Jun 2015, 1.23pm.

Opened last year the Serrata and...

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Green
8 years

Rode Serrata and Ghania tracks today. Serrata is a bit damp and sandy in places especially over some of the roll offs making traction tricky.

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Amber
8 years

NOTE: Sun 31st May - Avoid the area from 10:00am - there is The 41st Annual Great NOSH Footrace happening starting at Lindfield and going to Bantry Bay - expected to be a few 100 runners as I...

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Amber
8 years

Serrata CLOSED this weekend 23/24 May, Gahnia is open.

this was posted on Sydney MTB Riders website today:
https://...

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Amber
8 years

Fine to ride this weekend

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Red
8 years

Closed midweek from 5 May to 6 June during the week for maintenance.

More detail here: http://nobmob.com/node/...

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Red
8 years

Serrata Track
The Serrata single track is clear of fallen trees and storm damage. A very large tree has fallen across the Currie Road fire trial near the gate. Serrata is in good condition...

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Red
8 years

With more than 100mm of rain forecast to fall over the next 48 hours please exercise some self restraint and stay off these trails until the end of the week.

These trails are an experiment...

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Green
8 years

The entire Bantry Bay area has held up really well after the rain. I rode Serrata, Daisy, Gahnia, Possum & Austrian Enduro today. All of the single trail was in perfect conditions. The only...

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Green
9 years

Rode Gahnia this morning and it couldnt be in better condition. Plenty of people out there now that you can sleep in AND be out with sunrise. Never seen so many people out there. Some first...

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Green
9 years

rode both serratta and ghania late this afternoon,were both excellent,no standing water on either.the missus unfortunately had a nasty OTB off one of the steep rolls at ghania but will live to...

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Amber
9 years

Message from NPWS:

The Engravings Trail and Gahnia Mountain Bike Track will be closed between 9am and 4pm weekdays commencing Thursday 26th February to Friday 6th March 2015. Please follow...

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Green
9 years

Rode ghania last night and it was great. 95% dry as that rock armouring does wonders. The top of the dam on the other hand was really quite wet. I'd stick to the bantry bay side only if you want...

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Amber
9 years

The alert from the NPWS site has been removed so I take it these trails are now open.

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Red
9 years

No surprise here it's CLOSED!

http://www.nationalparks...

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Amber
9 years

There's no 'official' status for this track but given the rain last couple of days I'd imagine the track is in no state to ride.

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Green
9 years

Only rode Serrata & it's very dry (surprisingly). Just 1 or 2 small puddles at the top of the fire trail for ride out.
At a guess, I'd say Gahnia is very dry too.
Enjoy...

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Green
9 years

Brilliant!
Gahnia is getting easier and cleaner the more it gets ridden.
There's a break out off the trail on Serrata between the first very tight right hander and the sharp rock rollover...

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Green
9 years

2 laps of Gahnia and one of Serrata today. Someone has put a rock on the roll-off exit on Gahnia to dumb it down. It makes it a little bit easier but is off putting at first. Serrata seems a...

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Green
9 years

Rode Serrata and Gahnia today. Green as, bru.

I need a dropper seatpost!

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Green
9 years

Gahnia Track is open... get out there! Smiling

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Green
9 years

Dry all the way on the new singletrack. Firetrail have some damp bits, but it's not an issue at all

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Green
9 years

all good rode it at about 6pm tonight,nice and grippy,the only water was a hoppable puddle on the firetrack back up

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Green
9 years

Did a lap this morning. A few puddles on the fire trail but otherwise all good.

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Green
9 years

Very nice,did a few laps around 1pm,saw a wallaby and a lyrebird.Not as techy as i expected given some of the comments but well done to the builders

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Green
9 years

Did a few laps yesterday and it was good fun, many thanks to the trail builders! I'd say it was more like a black level trail though, especially the first half which descends some twisty rock...

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Green
9 years

.. Ah nope no riders there either... did 2 laps of the new track and the only ones to witness my huge grin were two (very startled) kangaroos.

You can tell there have been a lot of laps...

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Green
9 years

The new Serrata Track at Bantry Bay can now be ridden... on the Forestville side only please!

Please stay out of Gahnia on the Wakehurst Parkway side which is still under construction with...

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Green
10 years

Most Sydney region parks will re-open morning of October 26. See:

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Red
10 years

Here we go again.

IMPORTANT: Due to the current fire emergency, all national parks have been closed across the Greater Sydney Metropolitan Area until further notice. Some commercial...

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Green
10 years

NPWS extreme fire danger closure has been lifted. See:

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Red
10 years

Closed due to extreme fire danger. See:

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Green
10 years

Rode the fire trail from Forestville Park down to the water on the western shore. A few puddles on the flat sections but otherwise nice and dry.

Not a sound to be heard except for bird...

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Red
11 years

"ALL TRACKS AND TRAILS CLOSED FOR WALKING, HORSE-RIDING AND CYCLING FROM FRIDAY, 11 JANUARY TO MONDAY 14 JANUARY

All walking tracks in NSW National Parks will be closed until at least...

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Green
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Red
11 years

On Tuesday 8 January all NSW national parks and reserves will be closed due to predicted catastrophic bushfire conditions. More information will be available after 9am Tuesday 8 January. For more...

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Green
11 years

Track is great, nice and dry and not too much sand.

Have been riding repeats of Currie Road down to Bantry Bay to ease back into riding after 3 months off with L4/L5 disc issue. Did 4...

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Green
11 years

Rode through from Currie Rd to the bottom of the hill today. A bit of water on the traverse across from Currie Rd, but the downhill is fine.

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Green
11 years

Dry Smiling

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Green
12 years

Fire trails a virtually dry. Currie Road fire trail is quite sandy on some of the fast corners so watch for that

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Green
12 years

Rode the Currie Road fire trail down to the water twice.

Some water on the trail but suprisingly dry. If you need a ride and don't a couple of laps of this should get you your fix!

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Green
13 years

Rode to/from Manly Dam parkway enterance to Forestville oval.

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Green
13 years

Some puddles although nothing you can't bunny hop over with some speed up.

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Green
14 years

According to http://www.rfs.nsw.gov.au/dsp_content.cfm?cat_id......

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Red
14 years

Sydney wide total fire ban. See: http://www.rfs.nsw.gov.au/...

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