Last weekend, Martin and I had a 5-day break at the Pae o te Rangi campground in the Cascades area of the Waitakere Ranges, near-ish to Te Henga/Bethell's Beach.
We caught the train to Swanson then got on our bikes - as you can see, it had some steep bits!
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| Biking up the first steep bit, to Waitakere township. I forgot to take my asthma inhaler when I first got on the train (it takes 30 minutes or so to kick in), so I was struggling with asthma up this bit and Martin had to take over my bike a little before the top. |
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| the gradient of the route as a whole |
