Up for a longer day ride through alpine scenery? Then why not join the Club for a high country ride to Tumut for lunch at the Tumut River Brewing Co.? GS and TS routes - it’s your choice! If you’d prefer a shorter ride, then why not join the first leg of the ride through to Adaminaby for coffee (116 km one way ex. Michelago or 80 km ex. Tharwa)?

TS (sealed roads, ride ranking TS2):

• Outbound: ex. Michelago Café, Monaro Hwy to Cooma, Snowy Mountains Hwy to Adaminaby (coffee, regroup with GS riders & refuel), then continuing Snowy Mountains Hwy to Tumut (246km):   
• • Michelago to Adaminaby (116km): https://maps.app.goo.gl/DtcRe1mJu8Czj4RA9
  • Adaminaby to Tumut (131km): https://maps.app.goo.gl/qukcoXc5vCELehaM8
• Return: each to their own and to decide on the day with options including:
• • Retrace outbound route to EG Ampol Hume, ACT (284 km): https://maps.app.goo.gl/K2HZ4kckXUgRHf4d6
  • Via Gocup Rd to Gundagai and Hume Hwy to Ampol Foodary, Nicholls, ACT (180 km):  https://maps.app.goo.gl/ejZ1s71ekpBCFM8c8
  • Via Brungle Rd to Gundagai, Hume Hwy to Jugiong, Jugiong Rd to Harden, Burley Griffin Way to Binalong & Hume & Barton Hwys to Ampol Foodary Nicholls, ACT (226 km): https://maps.app.goo.gl/CTwvfCHWcWuvzUFr7

Return route rest stop: Riders to decide on day.

• Approx. 500-600 km return (ex. Canberra and depending on return route) on sealed main and secondary roads (expect damaged surfaces).  
• TS Riders Meeting Point: Meet fuelled and ready to go at Michelago Cafe (50 Ryrie St, Michelago) for an 09:00 set-off.  

GS2 (unsealed roads, ride ranking GS2):

• Outbound: Ex. Tharwa, Shannons Flat to Adaminaby (coffee, regroup with TS riders & refuel), then continuing Snowy Mountains Hwy to Tumut (210 km):  https://maps.app.goo.gl/9RtETmCy8xKk9NmX8
• Return:
• • Via Wee Jasper and Cavan to Ampol Foodary (1 Kirkpatrick St) Weston Creek (144 km): https://maps.app.goo.gl/e3dF2qF91qZy3tCp9

Or for those short on time:

• • Via Brindabella Rd and Picadilly Circus to Ampol Foodary (1 Kirkpatrick St) Weston Creek (118 km): https://maps.app.goo.gl/ycrCyPuHBiUEAcYw6
• Approx. 400-450 km return (ex. Canberra and depending on return route).  
  
• Meeting Point (GS Riders): Meet fuelled and ready to go at Tharwa General Store (11 North St, Tharwa) for an 09:00 set-off.  

Fuel: Available in Cooma, Adaminaby, Tumut, Gundagai & Harden.

Register if you're interested in coming so I can let Tumut River Brewing Co. know likely numbers for lunch. Please email rides@bmwmcc.au if you plan to meet the group on the way or at Tumut (and it isn’t already identified on your registration), or head elsewhere after coffee in Adaminaby.

For those joining the ride along the way, or making their own way to Tumut, proposed meeting points (with best guess times) are:

• TS Riders: Michelago  Café, Michelago – dep. 09:00
• GS Riders: Tharwa Store, Tharwa – dep. 09:00
• Big Trout, Adaminaby – arr. 10:30, dep. by 11:10
• Tumut River Brewing Co. arr. 13:00 (lunch booking @13:00).

Cheers

Karen