Makiro track adventure ride, 10 February

[Howie]

well I finally got around to uploading my pictures from my camera, so thought I'd post them up.

[Howie]

and here's a few more from the middle of the track.

[Balrog]

Thanks for the pics Howie

[marks]

is the track fairly obvious?

I'm thinking of heading up for a look at the end of the month for a look-see

cheers

Mark

[pampa]

and here's a few more from the middle of the track.

Nice pics, thanks

[pampa]

is the track fairly obvious?

I'm thinking of heading up for a look at the end of the month for a look-see

cheers

Mark

Obvious to find u mean? Yeap, if you can get up to the Makiro road is easy, plus the track doesn't have any deviation so no problems in there either (if u take a deviation u r in problems, drop is high).

Cheers

[Balrog]

is the track fairly obvious?

I'm thinking of heading up for a look at the end of the month for a look-see

cheers

Mark

Hey Mark

I could be wrong , but I thought there was a route choice we got on the track.
At one point I thought we got to a Y intersection,
One track heading down to our left and the other off to our right.
We took the left hand track.

[bart]

Hey Mark

I could be wrong , but I thought there was a route choice we got on the track.
At one point I thought we got to a Y intersection,
One track heading down to our left and the other off to our right.
We took the left hand track.

The right hand track is a dead end after a couple of hundred metres. Apparently there used to be a hut there years ago. My old man used to go hunting in there about a thousand years ago.

[cooneyr]

I've just "stolen" Jims KMZ file of the route. I'll have ago at putting it up on my new web site advroutes.org.nz as my first North Island track

I'm guessing that a basic description of the route would be "muddy rutted dirt surfaced track. Knobbly tyres recommended". Also guessing it fits in the Difficult group?

Time for me to start trolling KB for old KMZ/KML files

Cheers R

[cooneyr]

Just put the Makiro track on the advroutes site. Have I got the description about right? Is there any access issues i.e. do you need permission etc?

Cheers R

[twotyred]

I've just "stolen" Jims KMZ file of the route. I'll have ago at putting it up on my new web site advroutes.org.nz as my first North Island track

I'm guessing that a basic description of the route would be "muddy rutted dirt surfaced track. Knobbly tyres recommended". Also guessing it fits in the Difficult group?

Time for me to start trolling KB for old KMZ/KML files

Cheers R

What a great resource this will be as it develops! Kudos to you for your efforts!

[Balrog]

I've just "stolen" Jims KMZ file of the route. I'll have ago at putting it up on my new web site advroutes.org.nz as my first North Island track

I'm guessing that a basic description of the route would be "muddy rutted dirt surfaced track. Knobbly tyres recommended". Also guessing it fits in the Difficult group?

Time for me to start trolling KB for old KMZ/KML files

Cheers R

Hey Ryan

If you're interested I have the kmz ( or gpx if you prefer ) file that covers the whole trip we did.
I just put in the Makiro track as the server only allows very tiny
kmz files to be uploaded ( for some reason it only allows a 4k kmz file )

You're probably not interested in the whole trip up from Welly but maybe the
extra bits from the Tui brewery to the start of the track might be useful.

Let me know, if you're keen and I'll email you the extra bits

Jim

[cooneyr]

Hey Ryan

If you're interested I have the kmz ( or gpx if you prefer ) file that covers the whole trip we did.
I just put in the Makiro track as the server only allows very tiny
kmz files to be uploaded ( for some reason it only allows a 4k kmz file )

You're probably not interested in the whole trip up from Welly but maybe the
extra bits from the Tui brewery to the start of the track might be useful.

Let me know, if you're keen and I'll email you the extra bits

Jim

See this thread .I need to make it clear on the advroutes site that I dont really want the whole track for a ride. This means I have to dissect the files for the bits of relevance. This is probably the most time consuming part of adding a new route. Also because I know very little about the north island tracks I'm not sure that I can will even be able to do it.

What I really want is just the route itself i.e. basically where you turn into the route to where you turn off it. I know this description is a little vague but if people can navigate to the "start" of the track (which ever end they are starting at) using the roads shown by Google Maps then I dont want those roads. I need to keep file sizes minimal so that the page loads reasonably quickly. At the moment the plan is to have all routes showing when the page is loaded but I may have to work around this later on some how.

Cheers R