After three rainy weekend and endless chores it was time to lay down some tyre tracks, so after loading my Borat/SWAT van I was off to Waimiha (its on google earth) for a reboot and defrag of my internal hard drive. Starting on a twisting strip of uphill gravel road for a few warm up drifts to get the feelingin time for the turn onto twin track with many puddles of increasingly deep water until I sent a bower wave over my head for some unexpected cooling.
Since this was my first ride up here this season it became a turn left day (were you turn left a every intersection) to find any new tracks and since last season a lot of logging has meant a barren landscape but lots of new fingers of track to connect. All these tracks are truck size but not made with any water runoff so big water ruts and silt fiiled holes are common (beware the flat spot how deap is the silt???).The only new connections are over slash (random dead branches run over by a log skidder) so stand up and trials it or get the tyres taken out from under you mens sweatting is mandatory.
Then a new discovery in the form of a freshly machined old track with bollards placed in the ground to prevent anything bigger than an ATV getting in, :nod: you know that means adopt minimum roost and maximum smiles as the new old trail fills in 20 easy minutes of calm and cool-down exploring. After returning I found three more similar style trails bofore entering an over grown and neglected trail loop to get the challeng going again. Part 2 later as lunch break is over
Since this was my first ride up here this season it became a turn left day (were you turn left a every intersection) to find any new tracks and since last season a lot of logging has meant a barren landscape but lots of new fingers of track to connect. All these tracks are truck size but not made with any water runoff so big water ruts and silt fiiled holes are common (beware the flat spot how deap is the silt???).The only new connections are over slash (random dead branches run over by a log skidder) so stand up and trials it or get the tyres taken out from under you mens sweatting is mandatory.
Then a new discovery in the form of a freshly machined old track with bollards placed in the ground to prevent anything bigger than an ATV getting in, :nod: you know that means adopt minimum roost and maximum smiles as the new old trail fills in 20 easy minutes of calm and cool-down exploring. After returning I found three more similar style trails bofore entering an over grown and neglected trail loop to get the challeng going again. Part 2 later as lunch break is over