South Island - Staging Post do (7-8 December)

[cold comfort]

hi guys-as i also have days off b4 and after anyone interested in going via the West Coast? Planning to collect a mate in Hokitika on the way also at this point>

[doc]

SOUTH ISLAND - STAGING POST DOO
: Kaikoura (approx 50ks North, over the Hundalee's & up the coast.. an awesome ride BTW!! ).. or Cheviot (approx 20ks south)
Jen

This wouldn't be that little place; That is a township near the junction of the Waiau and Leader rivers. Hurunui district on S.H. No 1. 14km north of Cheviot, 65km South West of Kaikoura. 132km north-east of Christchurch. Primary school . Farming district. Takes its name from the sheep run taken up there by pioneer,runholder and classical scholar, Edward James Lee who named his station after Parnassus, a mountain (2457m) revered by the ancient Greeks as the abode of Apollo and the Muses, near the ancient Greek city of Delphi.

or is it the turn off before that one ?

[dangerous]

or is it the turn off before that one ?

Well before, in the hills still the turn of is a blink you miss it sorta thing.

[Kickaha]

Hawkesbury Cutting on the old SH1

[Ghost_Bullet]

It would look a little somthing like this "Click"

[Oakie]

Just a 100 metres or so past a railway crossing by the looks of it? (Coming from the south that is).

[MyGSXF:Me]

This wouldn't be that little place; That is a township near the junction of the Waiau and Leader rivers. or is it the turn off before that one ?

I think you are thinking of Parnassus Doc which is also a "fart & you miss it" sorta place!! coming from the North.. you'll go up a longish uphill straight, then a big sweeping left hand corner.. & the turnoff is just around the corner a bit.. there is a huge sign for The Staging Post.. so if ya miss it.. there's something wrong..

Just a 100 metres or so past a railway crossing by the looks of it? (Coming from the south that is).

No railway crossings near there.. tis all the new open section of road. Check out the map that GB put up.. For a bit of fun, you South fellas could turn off to the right on Hawkswood Rd, & go through the old patch of road just before SP.. there is a wicked little gully with a couple of excellent tight corners..

[Ghost_Bullet]

For a bit of fun, you South fellas could turn off to the right on Hawkswood Rd, & go through the old patch of road just before SP.. there is a wicked little gully with a couple of excellent tight corners..

A bit of fun, wicked, tight corners???? shit whatever!!!! a few weeks back, we could not find the road, cause it was somewhere a foot below the layer of GRIT!!!!! if ya callin that fun???? Shite I would hate to here what "non fun" is!!!!!

[Kickaha]

No railway crossings near there..

There's a railway overbridge just before the turnoff

[dangerous]

There's a railway overbridge just before the turnoff

Hey... you going to rock up for a nosy and chin wag?

[scumdog]

There's a railway overbridge just before the turnoff

Yeah, as D. said - you poked your nose in here - might as well poke it in at the Staging Post do as well eh?

[scumdog]

Oh, and just found out it is 576km from Chez Scumdog to the Staging Post

[Rashika]

Oh, and just found out it is 576km from Chez Scumdog to the Staging Post

that should take you about a week to get there huh?

[NighthawkNZ:Me]

that should take you about a week to get there huh?

plus fuel stops and tea breaks

[Rashika]

plus fuel stops and tea braks

and dont forget the wineries...