Thompsons Track claims 4WDer

[flyingcr250]

we should do a mission up there this weekend, if it isnt closed

[camchain]

You're alright CW. Being pissed off about what you've seen up there is a good thing, and I reckon your observations are very relevant too. Lack of respect for surroundings was surely a real factor in what happened.

Besides being a tragedy for families, this sort of news won't bode well for continued access and freedom to enjoy NZ backblocks, we can't just take it all for granted. I don't think there will be too many DOC reports floating around about what a great thing off-roading is. Protectors of snails & moss would probably be glad to see all of us out of there.

Hmmm bourbon must be the devil's grog if it affects angelic dirt bikers badly as well. What the hell is wrong with some people?

[trailblazer]

we have also come across a bit of a hut a few hunters had made up there and had left a whole heap of piss cans and food cans behind aswell as a heap of other rubbish so i guess it is all waiks of life that has irresponsible tendancies. It makes me sick and we usually leave with someone elses rubbish if we come accross it. On the positive note i cn't wait till i can ride a dirt bike up there aswell.

[cave weta]

its not just 4wders. i was up thompsons track a few months ago and a group of dirt bikers went past us and when we caught up to them they were sitting on the side of the track having a couple of bourbons. Then we noticed that they had a back pack full of them. When we came back down we noticed they had left about 8 or 9 cans behind. Who took those out it wasn't the dirt bikers that left them there. So you can't just put all the blame on us 4wders.

Thats a nice little story... I see what you did swapping over the bad guys for the good guys in my story- very clever that!

[trailblazer]

it wasn't about who was good or the bad guys i was just saying don't tar all 4wders with the same with the same brush. Not all of us leave our rubbish behind drink drive while on a trip or dig great big holes.

[Danger]

Its not just 4WD's its people and their rubbish and a general lack of respect. Should see the rubbish thats left behind in our local park by the touch rugby players at this time or year, and I picked up a small bag of glass from a small beach on a off shore island earlier this year left behind by boaties I guess, and our local sandspit that has endangered Dotterels nesting on it at this time of year has discarded fireworks littering the place after some clowns Guy Fawkes celebrations. So its people in general that have a lack of respect for the environment, whether or not they are in 4WD's or on bikes it doesn't really matter.