I'm looking for Christchurch Adv rides

[pete-blen]

ok..so whens everyone heading up....
fri night or VERY early sat morning...

[ADVGD]

P.s. What's a Rokon? Have a feeling I'm missing something here ..

I love camping, especially when the tent is a house and the beds are already made up

Rokons are old school awesomeness

I love camping, especially when the tent is a house and the beds are already made up

I can't find the princess emotocon, this will do...

[Peeteey]

ok..so whens everyone heading up....
fri night or VERY early sat morning...

I'm kinda keen to go up Fri eve so I can sleep in a little on Sat before the masses arrive. I don't sleep well at the best of times so a lie in is always welcome. Plus there's a jam sesh on at a local bar on the Fri, might go do some jamming

Rokons are old school awesomeness

Those things are awesome! Anything with a lawnmower engine in it has to be good.

I can't find the princess emotocon, this will do...

Something like this?

[pete-blen]

Think I will go up fri eve... Saturday's going to be long enough
with out adding extra on to it...
Have booked fri & sat nights at the Fishtank lodge.....

[Peeteey]

Think I will go up fri eve... Saturday's going to be long enough
with out adding extra on to it...
Have booked fri & sat nights at the Fishtank lodge.....

yup, I've done the same thing. Yay tho Fri is supposed to be hosing down at this point, showers on Sat too.

Oh well, will make the pass more interesting I'm sure. Hope there's no big rivers ... Wait, actually I do as I wanna test to see if my tube re-routing will work

[cynna]

I love camping, especially when the tent is a house and the beds are already made up

i spent last night in my tent with a flat airbed so yeah na


and a backpackers is almost like camping - its not as tho we are soft and have a motel with our own tv and spa


im working fri night so its a sat morning ride for me

[pete-blen]

yup, I've done the same thing. Yay tho Fri is supposed to be hosing down at this point, showers on Sat too.

Oh well, will make the pass more interesting I'm sure. Hope there's no big rivers ... Wait, actually I do as I wanna test to see if my tube re-routing will work

Hosing down & showers....
I don't do hosing down...
only do showers if they are warm with doors on them..

[ADVGD]

Something like this?

Haha, perfect!

Yay tho Fri is supposed to be hosing down at this point, showers on Sat too.

Looking very tidy at this stage mate
http://www.metvuw.com/forecast/forec...zsi&noofdays=7

[Transalper]

As I'm planning to be in there for Friday night do those going in on Saturday have a plan or should we go hang out in the general area of the first hut if we are to hook up in the reserve on Saturday morning?
My old track log goes a bit further to the right than ADVGDs one on his site and there looks to be a lot of old huts to visit on my topo, not to say they all still exist or are usable.
I have not been up the left branch at all.

Flash and I are looking to leave CHCH about 1pm. Managed to get the day off work.

[cynna]

As I'm planning to be in there for Friday night do those going in on Saturday have a plan or should we go hang out in the general area of the first hut if we are to hook up in the reserve on Saturday morning?
My old track log goes a bit further to the right than ADVGDs one on his site and there looks to be a lot of old huts to visit on my topo, not to say they all still exist or are usable.
I have not been up the left branch at all.

Flash and I are looking to leave CHCH about 1pm. Managed to get the day off work.

im not too sure - maybe decide on which branch on the saturday to take and bump into each other during the day. watch out for thepom tho cos he will actually bump into you. you guys will probably start riding when you wake and we have to get to kaikoura, fuel up and drop our bags off

from memory the first time i did it we ran out of time to do the left branch - they arent very long but took us ages. was thinking of taking one slowly on saturday and rushing the other then vice versa on sunday

[Transalper]

Righto, must look a bit more in to fuel vs distance being I won't be gassing up between days, personally I'm expecting to muck about doing a lot of nothing much while in there, no hurry and play it by ear so well see ya when we see ya for however long works.
Wonder if I can fit my chair on the WR ok got a stool that might work.

[cynna]

ok..so whens everyone heading up....
fri night or VERY early sat morning...

thepom is working til midnight and im working till 3.30 sat morning so not too early i hope. looks like its just me and thepom leaving sat morning now

[pete-blen]

I will be on the road about 5:30pm fri... Should make the back packers around 8pm

[Peeteey]

Flash and I are looking to leave CHCH about 1pm. Managed to get the day off work.

So are you guys going up on the Fri, riding part of it then camping in there somewhere? I'll ride up with you on Fri but will hang out in Kaikoura and wait for the Sat crowd to arrive. I still don't have a decent sleeping bag, hence the Backpackers. Oh, and I'm lazy

[Transalper]

So are you guys going up on the Fri, riding part of it then camping in there somewhere? I'll ride up with you on Fri but will hang out in Kaikoura and wait for the Sat crowd to arrive. I still don't have a decent sleeping bag, hence the Backpackers. Oh, and I'm lazy

That's the general idea.
I'm going to need to grab a gas tank top up in Kaikoura (being the closest fuel stations) last thing before heading in.