Paarl Mountain

Paarl Mountain Boardwalk

Paarl mountain bikers are just so blessed to have Paarl Mountain on their doorstep as a play and training ground.

Paarl Mountain Boardwalk

This morning's ride included a fast tar section, a jeep track climb, some portage on a newly built boardwalk through an indigenous forest, some smooth single-track and a hairy scary downhill down what we call the Eliminator. And all this within the space of one and a half hours over 30 km!

On the Paarl MTB website there are some route descriptions. We have just so many options to choose from and the different sections are combined in all sorts of interesting permutations. The routes include district roads, technical jeep track climbs, single-track, downhill tracks (luckily with chicken runs for the chickens like me) and the most amazing 360 degree views of the whole Cape Town Basin.

Unfortunately my pics of the new boardwalk is not of great quality, but it gives you an idea of what I'm talking about. I will post some better ones at a later stage.