STAGE 3: COURSE DESCRIPTION

Distance: 53km
Elevation: 808m

Start/Finish Venue: CBCo. Brewing, 6285 Osmington Rd, Bramley WA 6285

Start Time: 8am

The Queen stage will start and finish at CBCo. Brewing on Osmington Road, just 10 minutes from the Margaret River Town Centre. Stage 3 is also our brand new C2C Mini 1 Day event day!

Riders will begin their journey heading north out of the brewery farmland and straight onto some fast-flowing gravel roads through scenic paddocks and private property enabling them to warm up and chase their mates.

At the nine-kilometre point riders road will cross Bussell Highway and head into bushland where the famous Creek crossing awaits.

From here riders will jump onto the Wadandi trail (an old railway line from 1927) prior to hitting the famous Return of the Jedi trails leading them into what is known by a lot of people as “the Pines” the most anticipated part of the Cape to Cape.

Riders will experience a myriad of 25kms of single track in the Pines, including local favourites including Pugsley, Line Manager Loosey Goosey, Big Pine and Gulliver’s travels to name a few. These surely will test out any mountain biker’s ability ripping around berms and over table tops whooping and hollering with squeals of delight.

The course has been updated to allow tiny snippets of Fire Road to be included to make sure riders can hydrate before getting back into the next section of singletrack in front of them.

Riders then head into another network of the Pines and finally into the RAC Nature Park and its towering Karri trees home to the awesomeness of the Trail we call Fluid.

With approximately 13 kilometres to go, riders will head down to some fast-flowing gravel roads before heading the cycle trails alongside the Margaret River itself this flat section with amazing views of the river gives riders a chance to sit up and absorb the spectacular area they are riding in.

With a new flowing single track called Hop Trail taking you back north again with a couple of sneaky water crossings on your way to a well-deserved brew At CBCo once you have crossed the line.

Subject to change up until race morning briefing.