Otago Rail Trail with Ranby

How we made it through to the end of this trip in one piece with all our gear (just) I will never know! I good friend and I decided to have a boy's trip away in my extra weeks holidays. We headed down to Dunedin and has the pleasure at staying at Highgate, with Pat and Bridget, who showed us the best Southern hospitality. The trip looked as if it was going to be snowed off but as you can see by the pics the weather was great. Too many story's to tell from broken bikes, sunglasses, phone chargers, no food, nearly damming a river when playing poo sticks and Dick the plumber! Great times

Mountain Biking the Heaphy Track

What a trip! This is the summary:

Day 1 - Great beaches, weather and sand flies

Day 2 - Hill (up), mud and Tears
Day 3 - Hill (down) and smiles

Really glad to have completed the track the second time round. Weather was much better second time round. 3 days riding, climbed from seas level to over 900m, 17kms of down hill to finish and a 8 hour drive home = epic adventure. Good times

Arthurs Pass with the Team

Last trip away with the Grad School crew. Kim organised the Girls High bach up in Arthurs Pass for a couple of nights. We nearly didn't make it due to the worry about needing chains due the amount of snow around. Good walk (steep) up one of the nearby hills, a few beers, knuckle bones (Kiwi game), coffee and good company, all round great weekend away. Thanks to the Grad Crew.

James and Jono's Road Trip

Queen’s Birthday weekend gave us an long weekend (I think the British should follow the Kiwi’s in getting behind this holiday!) Big drive up to the top of the South Island took us about 9 hours. The plan was to bike 50kms of the Heaphy track and then turn round and come back. What we didn’t count on was nearly 1000m climb over the first 17kms and torrential rain which made the track resemble a water fall in many places. We stopped well short of our target but were rewarded with a night in a great little warm hut, were we tried to get all our gear dry. Think we heard Kiwi’s through the night, but could face going out into the rain. We cut the trip short but did go on a little ticky tour, visiting Fairwell spit and a couple of barren West coast beaches. Good trip, but I think I’ve got some unfinished business with the Heaphy track. Despite the weather and riding the toughest part of the track, what a ride! 87Kms of single track = mountain biking heaven.

Twalk May 2011

Twalk as a adventure race come orienteering event orginised by the Canterbury uni. I was in a team with the Hardcore Willaim’s brother and sister combo. Basics description of the event is that you get dropped off in the middle of know where, get given a map with loads of points to find. They give you a few cryptic clues and 24 hours to find as many as you can. (Sleep = 4 hours in the in the bag of my wagon).