Mount Dick on a Sunday afternoon

[junkmanjoe]

our small group headed up mt dick, a few of you will know where i mean. out back carterton.
today view was outstanding, well over 100km clear view north east and south. got to summit decided to head off other side (west) down a couple old forest tracks, heavly over growen, you get to a point when you think to your self, ( well how i did i get here, how am i going to get out. ) my self , shiney new dr650 and bill, a trusty ktm625.
bush bashing our hearts out down hill......i came a drift scratched my new bike, broke the camera ( lost all the pics) and smashed my phone, bugger.... managed to get out again, sweating like hell marry on heat.... i got to get new tires, not realiy big bike country, but we had to have a go aye.
got across a small river slippery slimey rocks made interesting riding, bmw x 650 had joind in for a ride,headed deep in to private forest block ,the track just seamed to go on and on and on, fuel low, time running out, we turned back, only to return another day.

with another camera......
sunday ride in the wairarapa. see below as i managed to save some pics before camera died,

[buggsubique]

Superb man! that is what it's all about. Shame about the photos though.

[junkmanjoe]

we shall return to atack the mighty dick again.
he who falls shall stand tall and remount his mighty steed, and look around to see if any body seen it.

[bart]

Oh no. Not a scratch on the DR.

Nah, good one man. That's what it's all about. Shame about the camera though.

[Paladin]

I saw that overgrown track off the summit of Mt Dick when MarkS, Andy & I went up there after our Orongorongo ride - WELL overgrown!

Hey if the new DR has scratches then you must be using it for adv rides. Goes with the territory I guess! Good on ya!

Scratched my new KLX good 'n proper within the first week - I just thought "well if I'm going adventure riding it's gonna happen sooner or later - it ain't a road bike FFS" !!!!!!

[junkmanjoe]

have managed to get pics off the memory card before tipsy moment, so here we are.
1st pic road up to lookout,
2nd looking north to mt bruce
3rd looking toward castlepoint
4th looking toward gladstone
5th looking toward martinbrough
6th looking south, lake ferry featherston

[junkmanjoe]

and one of the dreded track thats the easy part, further down, is where we came to gref, just enough room to walk a mouse.
and theres a couple just cauz its so lovely up there..... aarrr

[junkmanjoe]

this pic, the white x is about where i came a drift, this google map is quite old, shows the track quite good here, but mate ride it now, nasty nasty.
next time we going to try the other side, just as hairy in there as well, i did walk that track for a little bit and decided to go the other way insted......... not a good idea...