Nelson Rideouts - Where next?

**Woodman** · 8th January 2013, 18:32

Originally Posted by rigley

Umopom and I will be taking his Ute down, try and preserve the knobblies

Trailer trash

**rigley** · 8th January 2013, 18:50

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Great day out at Mt. Patriarch last Sunday, boy was it hot!!!!

**Underground** · 8th January 2013, 20:53

We will also be choosing a route with the best weather.
I quite liked that ride through the Pyramid valley station (anyone know their contact?) that joined onto Lees Valley.... after Molesworth or Rainbow of course.
then we're off to Methsven.

**alane** · 10th January 2013, 22:21

Originally Posted by Underground

We will also be choosing a route with the best weather.
I quite liked that ride through the Pyramid valley station (anyone know their contact?) that joined onto Lees Valley.... after Molesworth or Rainbow of course.
then we're off to Methsven.

SENT P.M.

BUGGER ----Wish I was Going.

**Underground** · 11th January 2013, 08:43

Originally Posted by alane

SENT P.M.

BUGGER ----Wish I was Going.

Cheers Alan, we will miss you

**clint640** · 11th January 2013, 09:02

Originally Posted by Underground

We will also be choosing a route with the best weather.
I quite liked that ride through the Pyramid valley station (anyone know their contact?) that joined onto Lees Valley.... after Molesworth or Rainbow of course.
then we're off to Methsven.

Will hopefully see you tomorrow, but if not I'm going to be staying with my Sis at Stavely near Methven Mon-Wed ish, so we should keep in touch, I'm keen to do some poking around in the hills behind there.

Cheers
Clint

**MXNUT** · 13th January 2013, 20:03

Hi Guys, can anyone give me the directions to the start of the Maungatapu track from the nelson end.
Planning on doing it on the friday or saturday after the Dusty Butt on the way back to picton but i dont have a GPS.

Also is the track to the top of Mt Pat open to the public or do i need to get permission / key from someone.

Any help with these tracks would be appreciated unless one of the locals wants to show me the way

**NordieBoy** · 13th January 2013, 20:12

Mt Pat has no gates.
The Maungatapu is better with a guide on a TT350

**pete-blen** · 13th January 2013, 20:22

Originally Posted by MXNUT

Hi Guys, can anyone give me the directions to the start of the Maungatapu track from the nelson end.
Planning on doing it on the friday or saturday after the Dusty Butt on the way back to picton but i dont have a GPS.

Also is the track to the top of Mt Pat open to the public or do i need to get permission / key from someone.

Any help with these tracks would be appreciated unless one of the locals wants to show me the way

The nelson guys will help you wth the Munga... its bit of a trick to get there now...

Mt Pat.... You need to take the North bank Rd "turn right from nelson" just before the Waiau bridge comeing into Renwick..
Mt pat road is a fair way up.. its the first side Rd on yer right after you hit the gravel.." a few 100 metres of gravel"
follow the signs to lake chalice.. when you get to the Lake Chalice car park keep going to the Mt Pat summit...
No key or premission needed....

**NordieBoy** · 14th January 2013, 09:40

Oh, also, the Maungatapu is a weekend only ride, as the Sharlands Creek gate is shut during the week.

This should be a map from Sharlands to the Dam.
http://goo.gl/maps/GVrzq

**MXNUT** · 14th January 2013, 15:26

Originally Posted by NordieBoy

Oh, also, the Maungatapu is a weekend only ride, as the Sharlands Creek gate is shut during the week.

This should be a map from Sharlands to the Dam.
http://goo.gl/maps/GVrzq

Thanks Nordie.
The sharlands creek gate, is that the gate that you have shown the bypass to ???

Meaning that it could possibly be done on a week day.

**pete-blen** · 14th January 2013, 16:04

Are you able to get though from the top of the Whangamoas..
The gate at the top was easy to ride around last time I looked... Are there others
once though the first...

**XRJohnny** · 14th January 2013, 17:59

Originally Posted by NordieBoy

Mt Pat has no gates.
The Maungatapu is better with a guide on a TT350

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**NordieBoy** · 14th January 2013, 18:02

Originally Posted by MXNUT

Thanks Nordie.
The sharlands creek gate, is that the gate that you have shown the bypass to ???

Meaning that it could possibly be done on a week day.

The Sharlands Creek gate is just off the Maitai Rd and is un-bypassable.
At the caretakers, the gate there is sometimes shut and you can go around the paddock.
In either case, you go behind the gum trees to get past the gate leading down to the dam.

Originally Posted by pete-blen

Are you able to get though from the top of the Whangamoas..
The gate at the top was easy to ride around last time I looked... Are there others
once though the first...

Nope. Big, bugger off boulders replaced that tree...
Down at the base of the Wangas, they've blocked off the entrance to the Duckpond with rocks too.
Although a bit of fossicking in the river would enable more rocks to be placed to fill the gaps and possibly make a ramp...