Waiouru Army Adventure Ride

**Eddieb** · 1st November 2010, 21:28

Originally Posted by twisty

I will be at Shell Mana at 7 also too

What on?

**twisty** · 1st November 2010, 21:46

I'm gona bring the AT. Not brave enough to take new GS800 and the AT has 606's on it.

**junkmanjoe** · 1st November 2010, 21:50

Originally Posted by pampa

yip,

This is the Michelin AC-10 I put instead also well used

dont forget ya spare tubes mate............

**buggsubique** · 2nd November 2010, 08:02

Lads, PM sent with barracks option for those overnighting. Need you to PM me back ASAP (or post on here) so I can confirm numbers tomorrow morning.

Cheers, Matt

**Underground** · 2nd November 2010, 08:46

Awww, just this one time I wish I lived in the North Island

Have a cool ride guys.

**pampa** · 2nd November 2010, 11:40

Originally Posted by junkmanjoe

dont forget ya spare tubes mate............

don't worry I have all my spares and hopefully some mates around ... last time it worked out ... hopefully didn't piss my companions too much

did i?

**buggsubique** · 2nd November 2010, 11:58

Here is an idea of the general routes we'll be taking. Google earth / Google maps can show you in more detail...

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**Eddieb** · 2nd November 2010, 12:21

The weekend weather forecast has been slowly improving as the week has progressed but I just checked now and....

Saturday 6
Showers becoming less frequent, possibly a few late snow flurries at the top of the Desert Road. Winds turning cold southerly.

Sunday 7
Showers becoming few and far between. Cold southerly winds.

Pack ya woolies boys

**twisty** · 2nd November 2010, 13:57

Originally Posted by Eddieb

The weekend weather forecast has been slowly improving as the week has progressed but I just checked now and....

Saturday 6
Showers becoming less frequent, possibly a few late snow flurries at the top of the Desert Road. Winds turning cold southerly.

Sunday 7
Showers becoming few and far between. Cold southerly winds.

Pack ya woolies boys

I hope I don't live to regret it, but this sounds cool lol

**buggsubique** · 2nd November 2010, 15:20

Originally Posted by Eddieb

Pack ya woolies boys

Do you want me to bring those mittens for you?

**buggsubique** · 2nd November 2010, 15:35

Originally Posted by twisty

I hope I don't live to regret it, but this sounds cool lol

Much of our riding out east will be between 1000m and 1400m...Waiouru township is at around 700m and the Desert Rd peaks just under 1100m if that's anything to go by.

Have something for windchill, and something to shed water. Don't forget some thermals for yer legs...

Don't sweat it though - it's all manageable!

**Eddieb** · 2nd November 2010, 15:51

Originally Posted by buggsubique

Much of our riding out east will be between 1000m and 1400m...Waiouru township is at around 700m and the Desert Rd peaks just under 1100m if that's anything to go by.

Have something for windchill, and something to shed water. Don't forget some thermals for yer legs...

Don't sweat it though - it's all manageable!

I'll need to repack slightly, while I'd packed for cool and possibly mildy damp conditions I hadn't packed for bloody cold!

**buggsubique** · 2nd November 2010, 17:38

Originally Posted by Eddieb

I'll need to repack slightly, while I'd packed for cool and possibly mildy damp conditions I hadn't packed for bloody cold!

Hard to predict mate, the weather can bring Crowded House, but it's often just being slightly damp and then getting cut with wind that makes for the worst. At least it's s'posed to be southerly...its the wind off Ruapehu to the west that's the real shitter.

It has snowed there in Xmas and even mid Jan before...blows the mind sometimes...

**Waihou Thumper** · 3rd November 2010, 17:26

This is a good map of the Defence area guys...

http://www.offlimits.co.nz/sites/off...nes_NoGrid.pdf

Give it some time to load, it is 5.8Mb... which means of course you can blow the sucker up and look at the contours we riding over....yeehaa...