Thanks to The Last of Summer Wine Building Co (Banger & Dave) the Out Back track is now finished!

Banga and Dave spent last week building the two new ramps that take you over the fences. This completes the new loop which seems to be a winner with people. We still have the odd sign to put in.

Steep drop into the second part of the downhill.

The official sign

The lower bridge

First bridge of the outback track

The outback wildlife

Te Totara gully is coming along slowly.

You can now ride down the steep hill and around to the bridge bypassing the steps. Be carefully riding over the bridge! DoC are going to put another handrail on soon - it’s a bit of a drop into the cave.

The boys at Helistar flew some logs into the gully further down for us and we are now building another switch back corner to get around that set of steps.

After that we will just have two sets of steps to take out and then will take on the big hill at the top. This requires a zig, zag, zig, zag and another zig to get to the top, so this may take a little bit of time to build.

If you haven’t found it yet: we have built a little track up to the Tunnel track so you don’t have to ride on the road.

All the other tracks seem to be in good order just the odd mud hole on the Redwoods and we have a plan for that.
The people night riding say that the glow worms are great in Totara gully - so check them out!

Other tracks on the go are:

1. Rainbow Point gully with a road crossing over SH1
2. A track system from the end of the sewerage plant track past Cheery Island up to Bungy. A lot of this is already built and being ridden (downhill anyway).
3. More tracks off the Outback including another uphill and a down hill going over some more horse crossings back to the Corner Shop Connection another track from the bottom of Cole’s killer down to Young pines.

Cheers Track crew

Helistar Hill

Peter Mac and Barry spend 4 days changing the old steep hill into a new zig zag last week. It will be a bit soft for a little while but no matter what it will still be better than the old hill.

Many thanks to DoC for letting us change the hill.

The new uphill from Huka Falls to Helistar

Te Totara Track

We starting to chip away in that gully so we will end up with anther big loop, but this time it will be in all native bush. This track will link back to the Tunnel and Helistar.

Riders going the wrong way in Wairakei

Can people stick to the direction signs please. A few locals taking short cuts to  tracks by riding the wrong direction on another track. It’s not only dangerous for yourselves and other riders but in increases the wear on some tracks that were not build for riding in that direction.

Slips and fallen trees

We have had the odd slip of late, can anybody who comes across one please give us a ring as sometimes we don’t find them for a week and we can sort them on our next ride if we know we need the tools.

Cheers

The Track crew