River Crossings at the Aorere End of the Heaphy Track
I’ve had a few questions about the river crossings at the end of Heaphy Track. There are 3 fords between Brown Hut and civilisation which are usually impassable after heavy rain. For people doing the Heaphy on a schedule this can throw plans into disarray. When we rode the Heaphy two of our group ended...
Wet Heaphy Track Videos
Our mountain biking trip through the Heaphy Track got extended by a heavy downpour and flooding. As it’s very hard to explain just how much it can rain I thought we’d show you. Luckily Dominic Blissett shot some video with his waterproof Pentax digital. It’s just a bunch of random clips but you’ll get the...
Stuff Learnt from Mountain Biking the Heaphy Track
Being some of the first people to ride the Heaphy Track in 15 years (and quite possibly the first people to ride it both ways legally in that time) we’ve been getting a lot of questions. At last count roughly every mountain biker I know is either planning to, or thinking of riding the Heaphy....
Sneak Preview of Mountain Biking the Heaphy Track: Video
As every New Zealand mountain biker should know the Heaphy Track is opening to mountain bikes for the first time in 15 years on Sunday 1 May 2011. For many of us this has been a very very long wait. In 1996 a big chunk of land in the north west of the South Island,...
Heaphy Gear Test Ride Report
This is a report of my test ride today with 11kg of gear for a four day Heaphy Track mission. I rode Involution which features a groveling climb up to 745 metres above sea level followed by 600 vertical metres of singletrack downhill. While riding uphill for far too long today I composed a little song. My...
Double Heaphy Track Gear List
I’m riding the Heaphy Track with some friends in May. To increase our singletrack and get rid of any annoying car shuttling stuff we’re going to be riding Aorere to Karamea and back over 4 days. This equates to around 160km of off-road, or 40km a day. 40km a day isn’t a big deal but...
