As much as I would actually love to go. The budget is tight atm and im still paying back my parents after the truck sprung a leek on queens birthday weekend. So I will have to try get to the next one. Hopefully with a bit of spare change too.

Mt Patriarch is a great drive tho there can be snow and ice up there this time of year so would recommend taking 2 vehicles once up the top you will get nice veiws down to Lake Challice which you can walk down to the hut. but its a good drive no huts to drive to though. chears mate thats great news ...

ok sweet well now i know where to look. ive been looking for tracks around Blenheim and a friend recommended Mt Patriarch now as im not a local and am actually from Dunedin just up here for study i have no idea what kind of track that is so i am woundering if anyone here has ever been up there. just ...

Thanks guys. i have been on the website and ive been talking to Alex and James from NMIT and will be trying to attend the next training day. speaking of safety equipment i will be mounting new recovery points so would like to know where to start with that or should i head over the the mitsi section ...

hello all. This is Penny [img] [img]http://i1089.photobucket.com/albums/i346/Seckomecko/ASTRIDACER/Penny/IMG_20140516_154636_zpsf638c767.jpg[/img] [/img] hoping that image worked. anyway im in blenheim and am in the prosses of joining the 4x4 club here. ive been reading on this forum for a while and ...