Wires Loop

DieselBoy · Post by **DieselBoy** » Tue Jan 24, 2006 3:54 pm

Old wires trip thread from years ago.....

wopass · Post by **wopass** » Tue Jan 24, 2006 7:50 pm

what he said,

big mud holes

big rocks

big banks

big ruts

all = big fun :wink:

ohh..and probably be big mossies as well :evil:

... hate mossies

Ben · Post by **Ben** » Tue Jan 24, 2006 9:34 pm

We went up the main wires track last weekend,.

Drove up the loop at the far end of the track as far as the others we were with wanted to go, and walked a bit from there.
Then drove in from the other end to the river and walked up through the rock garden to the flat. Almost walked to where we got to from the other end.

What a wicked track!

One of the guys with us had been up ther 10 years ago (!!) and was telling horror stories about the rock garden, but it didn't actually look as bad as he described.
Challenging and lots of fun, but not impossible. Unless its wet that is... :0

Would be quite keen to head up there and do the whole thing with you guys in my zook.

Ben

DieselBoy · Post by **DieselBoy** » Wed Jan 25, 2006 7:33 am

Is that the Zook in your avatar??

eatenfuller · Post by **eatenfuller** » Wed Jan 25, 2006 8:23 am

hey DB

whats the wires track like in comparrison with thompsons track??

sounds like a good trip mate

wopass · Post by **wopass** » Wed Jan 25, 2006 8:29 am

way more interesting than thomps,bog holes arent as guge like the long smamp area of thomps but the track itself is more chalenging i think,from mud holes to rock crawling :wink:

not just winching out of bogs all the time :roll:

DieselBoy · Post by **DieselBoy** » Wed Jan 25, 2006 1:19 pm

If there are others looking for something to do on that weekend, we could have two groups.

The small crazy group who will hit the loop hard, and the rest who can go for the liesurly trip up the main track to the top.

We would all meet at the same spot in the afternoon to camp the night and who know's what mischief we could get up to.

The main track is fine for those with pretty well standard vehicles, and at this time of year, you would get by(have more fun) on AT's.

So how does that sound??

Two seperate groups, Shiney and Crazy, and meet at the camp ground at the top in the afternoon and head back out the next day.

Thoughts???

Ben · Post by **Ben** » Wed Jan 25, 2006 4:52 pm

Yep, thats my zuk in the pic. Half way round the Waitapheta loop.

I saw on the new last night there'd been 200mm of rain in the Coromandel over the previous 24 hrs!

Is it possible DOC may close the track cos of this? I've heard they shut it if it is wet. Hopefully it would be open again by the weekend after if it does close.

Ben

PAID · Post by **PAID** » Wed Jan 25, 2006 5:50 pm

i could be ineterested in a shiny trip.. hopefully wont be running my A/Ts by then..

wopass · Post by **wopass** » Wed Jan 25, 2006 7:02 pm

i think my dad and his lady are thinking of comming allong as well so that might be another vehicle for the shiny trip...maybe...im working on him,see how he goes :wink:

as for another zook comming on the loop crew....i see no problem with that...they are sooo easy to tow out when they get stuck :wink:

looking forward to it

is it the 5th yet..... :roll:

Ben · Post by **Ben** » Wed Jan 25, 2006 8:00 pm

wopass wrote:as for another zook comming on the loop crew....i see no problem with that...they are sooo easy to tow out when they get stuck

Yeah, being a Cruiser driver you should know all about getting stuck! :lol:

Seriously though, should be fun.

Ben

wopass · Post by **wopass** » Wed Jan 25, 2006 9:00 pm

muahaha

gonna be wicked fun with all this rain in the hills...just hope it isnt raining that weekend...maybe i should get my soft top sorted out so it actually holds water out... :shock:

DieselBoy · Post by **DieselBoy** » Thu Jan 26, 2006 8:14 am

Sweet, so thats four of us.

That will make the traveling order interesting. I guess, Safari, Zook, Cruiser, Zook.

Furgus???

When's that 90 of yours gonna be sorted mate?????

Furgus · Post by **Furgus** » Thu Jan 26, 2006 12:34 pm

I know I know :oops:

Seems to be taking forever!!
Partly it's 'cos the truck is in a mates shed which is ~30Km away & partly 'cos we're doing th Nats again this year so that takes one weekend a month when we're competing & one weekend to get it ready for the next round - Oh and of course the Missus likes me to do jobs at home one weekend a month - so that leaves - yes 1 weekend a month to work on the bloody thing!!!!!
So hopefully I'll have it ready by Labour w/e - anyone for Tairees?

wopass · Post by **wopass** » Thu Jan 26, 2006 7:01 pm

DieselBoy wrote:Sweet, so thats four of us.

That will make the traveling order interesting. I guess, Safari, Zook, Cruiser, Zook.

but what if i wanna go first ?..... then i can make sure the rest of you all fall in my 36" holes :twisted:

...and then brag about how i made it thru and you all got stuck :shock:

MUahahahha

wopass · Post by **wopass** » Thu Jan 26, 2006 7:03 pm

im not trying to compensate for anything....IM NOT !...honest.... :cry:

.....

DieselBoy · Post by **DieselBoy** » Fri Jan 27, 2006 7:31 am

I'm more likely to get stuck than you on my little biscuit 33's, and i don't see a zook doing the buisness on the rope :lol:

Unless, we get kinky and make it zook on zook in the back row :shock:

wopass · Post by **wopass** » Sat Jan 28, 2006 1:54 pm

are we there yet :?:

im hopeing more people are going to come allong as the shiny trip parade...more people to have a leer up with on the sunday night

guppy · Post by **guppy** » Sat Jan 28, 2006 6:57 pm

i might be a starter...busy, busy,but could do with some entertainment!!!

wopass · Post by **wopass** » Sat Jan 28, 2006 8:10 pm

i think you owe it to yourself to come with us and have some fun...you deserve it,youve had a hard time the last couple of months with .....whatever youve been doing... :wink:

you caan doooo eeeet

wopass · Post by **wopass** » Sun Jan 29, 2006 10:02 pm

ohh for anyone thinking about maybe comming if you want to see maps etc of the area go >> http://www.offroadexpress.co.nz/modules ... sc&start=0 here to see them. to see the full size topo photo of the area go to my album(the link is there somewhere) and click on the pic,then when that has loaded up...click on it again to get full size :shock:

....beware it is huge and may take some time to download...but it is a wickid photo :wink:

are we there yet :?:

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wopass · Post by **wopass** » Mon Jan 30, 2006 11:02 am

weather forecast looks promising...rain all week then hopefully fineing up for our trip

http://metservice.com/default/index.php?alias=thames

fingers crossed

wopass · Post by **wopass** » Wed Feb 01, 2006 3:15 pm

just an idea but would it be worthwhile going over saterday night and camping up at the river tent site then we are there and ready to hook into it on sunday morning? then all we have to do is pop back down the track 5 mins and we are at the loop start??.. then we can leave tents etc there ready for sunday night??

just a thought

weather forecast is looking better and better too

DieselBoy · Post by **DieselBoy** » Wed Feb 01, 2006 3:51 pm

Hmmm. yeah, i had been playin with that idea my self, its an awesome place to camp.

But it will be busy......................

Would be good to stash all the food and extra gear up the top before we hit it aswell.

Think about it though.

By the time you get up on Sunday morning, breaky, pack all the gear back up, and then get going, its prolly more of a shag around than goin on Sunday morning. But not as much fun.

Although it would save changing yours tyres round on Sunday morning at the start of the track :lol:

What ever you wanna do man.

You gona have room in the cruiser for my 5l fuel can for the chain saw??
I hate the petrol smell inside the cab, makes ya wanna puke!!!!!!

wjw · Post by **wjw** » Wed Feb 01, 2006 4:17 pm

You still got that leaky chainsaw

wopass · Post by **wopass** » Wed Feb 01, 2006 8:55 pm

thats what i was thinking, pop into that farmers place that looks after the track and see if we can leave the trailer there and do the tyre swap saterday night,hit the track up to the river tent spot and have a few beers

pass out

then hit the loop first thing in the morning leaving all non essential equipment there for sunday night when we get back to the river for a swim/paddle

and yea i can carry your spare gas bro.

DieselBoy · Post by **DieselBoy** » Thu Feb 02, 2006 7:37 am

wjw wrote:You still got that leaky chainsaw

Haha, yep. Still goin strong, and still pissing chain bar lub all over the place :lol:

DieselBoy · Post by **DieselBoy** » Thu Feb 02, 2006 7:38 am

wopass wrote::wink: thats what i was thinking, pop into that farmers place that looks after the track and see if we can leave the trailer there and do the tyre swap saterday night,hit the track up to the river tent spot and have a few beers pass out then hit the loop first thing in the morning leaving all non essential equipment there for sunday night when we get back to the river for a swim/paddle

and yea i can carry your spare gas bro.

Yep that sounds like a plan. Should only take 45mins up to the camp site.

wopass · Post by **wopass** » Thu Feb 02, 2006 8:56 am

done.

DieselBoy · Post by **DieselBoy** » Thu Feb 02, 2006 9:55 am

What time you thinking of leaving on Saturday??

You working aye??, so that would mean around the 8:00pm mark??

I have band practise for most of the day, so i'll be in the same situation.

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