cycling in the blue mountains

On the weekend we went off cycling in the blue mountains. We decided to take advantage of the efficient public transport and head out by train. The route we took was 27km though some spectacular blue mountains forest. The height difference between the endpoints of the route is 700m vertical, so most of the trip was a gleeful hold-onto-your-hat downhill. We cycled the entire route and didn't see another soul. When we got back we heard that there was a missing hiker stumbling about in the region we had been passing. I learnt today they found his body, poor chap.