Tour Aotearoa Day 31: Kumara to Ross, 64 miles, 2,861 feet elevation | WCWT ✅

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West Coast Wilderness Trail… done! And. It. Was. Amazing.

Today’s section was a potpourri of flowy single track, wide open vistas, stunning water scenes, gold mining tracks and goat trail look-alikes stitched together with friendly dirt and gravel roads. It’s been one of our fave days of riding.

We put in a few extra miles of riding to finish the West Coast Wilderness Trail in Ross to get to a campground right on the Tasman Sea. 🌊 And it didn’t disappoint. We caught the last of today’s light watching the sun set over the sea.

It was a “three map day” and we hit up Cowboy Paradise first, which has an interesting story. Apparently the owner had a cannabis growing operation in an underground bunker twice as large as the average kiwi house. He got busted and now the future of “paradise” is uncertain. Still a convenient place for us to stop for a self serve snack.

Then midafternoon we cycled through Hokitika and stopped in town for a flat white and an L&P.

We rolled into Ross after 5pm – the trails are fab but take some time to ride so it was a full day. It’s just too hard not to stop and take in the scenery and snap pics along the way.

Our campground had a wood fired pizza oven going with a little tiki bar named “Ever the Weekend” so we enjoyed pizza, wine and the setting sun. What a way to end a day of riding.

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