Club Torque Spring 2021

HUNTER CHAPTER

LAKE TO MOUNT 17 and 20 November 2021

Words and images: Christine Cameron

It felt like we had not seen our MX-5 friends for so long and our ND had sat sad and lonely in the garage missing his friends too. So as soon as Hunter’s lockdown eased in October, we organised a mid-week and weekend run on 17th and 20th to the picnic area at Mount Sugarloaf. Doubling up on the run allowed us to stay within the NSW health

regulations while still opening the run up to everyone that wanted to come along. Nature was kind on both days, and we had lovely sunshine for the mid-week run and clouds but no rain for the weekend. Across both runs there were 10 + 9 cars bringing 19 + 17 members together for our first Chapter events since July. Meeting at Speers Point Park, we toured the lovely windy back roads between Boolaroo and Toronto, then headed over

to Freeman’s Waterholes and up towards Cessnock. Our usual preferred route along Sandy Creek Road – even with all its potholes, we love it for its great little windy sections – closed for roadworks (Yeah!!!), so Lake Road took us to Abermain, then back towards Newcastle. Touching on the Hunter Expressway for 6km certainly helped to blow the cobwebs out a bit. Exiting onto George Booth Drive, we cruised up to Mt Sugarloaf and found a nice shady spot in the trees for

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