{"id":1364,"date":"2017-07-31T13:15:39","date_gmt":"2017-07-31T03:15:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cyclingwild.com.au\/?p=1364"},"modified":"2018-01-10T23:16:35","modified_gmt":"2018-01-10T12:16:35","slug":"thenorthernflinderssuperloop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cyclingwild.com.au\/blog\/thenorthernflinderssuperloop\/","title":{"rendered":"The Northern Flinders super loop"},"content":{"rendered":"
An eagle soared overhead as we crossed a vast open plain on the way to a hut for lunch. It was day three and we were a little weary from the previous days effort. \u00a0Did we really look that bad, were we really on the menu? A few seconds later a small wallaby and her joey ran out across the track in front of us and we knew that we were not the ones about to get picked off for mains.
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This would be my third and most ambitious bikepacking trip to the Northern Flinders. We had a very tight timeframe squeezed into the end of Ben’s teaching semester and my mum’s 70th back in Adelaide. For Ben it would be his first proper bikepacking trip but I wasn’t too concerned from him to be taking on this challenging route knowing he has already crossed the Simpson on a motorbike and we did a lap of Tasmania some 15 years ago. Mik who had a much needed break had come a long way from that first tour he joined me on when he packed a 4kg tool kit. We were a solid team.<\/p>\n