Dunstan Trail/ Serpentine Track. Labour W/E Monday!

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Dunstan Trail/ Serpentine Track. Labour W/E Monday!

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Hi All,

Few Of Us Doing a Wee Trip Up the old dunstan trail and serpentine track on the monday of labour weekend, anyone's welcome to tag along with us should be a good trip i imagine.

We're all meeting at shell in mosgiel at 830am SHARP on the monday if anyone wants to tag along with us :)

Feel free to PM Me For more Details.

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Thatll be a good trip, We used to always do it just before it got closed for winter. Make sure you take lots of pics for us. :D
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Yeah i havnt done it before, Should be good haha!! Will Do!
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man I love that track....have fun...
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Don't forget to check out the Doc restored water wheel,great little side track on the way [ depending which way you go...lol..] and plenty to look at
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Can't get down to the waterwheel anymore except on foot....

It was on private land and there is now a fence with no gate across the track.
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a few mates did it in the weekend just been. im really excited to do it. should be good to test out the new truck!
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NJV6 wrote:Can't get down to the waterwheel anymore except on foot....

It was on private land and there is now a fence with no gate across the track.

Really that's a shame,was one of my favorite little spots,wonder why that was stopped
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Nothing wrong with pulling on the boots for stint.
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furnace wrote:
NJV6 wrote:Can't get down to the waterwheel anymore except on foot....

It was on private land and there is now a fence with no gate across the track.

Really that's a shame,was one of my favorite little spots,wonder why that was stopped


This is going back 7 or 8 years, but back then that track was getting torn up.
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fisho wrote:Nothing wrong with pulling on the boots for stint.

It was the track i liked...lol..also the history of course..do the walking when you get there, [ just a shame but never mind ] if you look around you will be amazed what is there..i mucked around in there for 3 days the last time i was there
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wjw wrote:
furnace wrote:
NJV6 wrote:Can't get down to the waterwheel anymore except on foot....

It was on private land and there is now a fence with no gate across the track.

Really that's a shame,was one of my favorite little spots,wonder why that was stopped


This is going back 7 or 8 years, but back then that track was getting torn up.

I was in there a couple of years a go and the track wasn't to bad,it was mainly rocky but there were some wash outs but certainly nothing to drastic
The serpentine was far worse but i think there has been quite a lot of work done on the track....people had not been sticking to the track
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Looks like its going to be nice and wet for the trip boys, been stuck up serpentine myself, your in for some fun!
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rhysm wrote:Looks like its going to be nice and wet for the trip boys, been stuck up serpentine myself, your in for some fun!

I got stuck up there for 8 hours once many years ago..the track was really bad at the time and it started to snow..the peat bog was incredible,i had ARB lockers & Simexs to ..had to dig the spare in about 6 times ..never forget that trip ..i have a ground anchor these days ....lol..last time there it was just a nice easy trip but dry and the track had a lot of work done
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wicked day today. heaps of sun. should be good for monday (heres hoping. silly dunedin weather)
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Aweeeesome day 4WDing, had the most fun ever!
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any photos or vids? certainly was good weather for it today!
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I Have some. but it says that whole 800pixel thing and i cant be bother resizing them tonight. one of my friends took over 400 photos!! haha
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Heres some pictures here on my FB for anyone that wants to have a look,
ive got the big double cab hilux.


http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10150892071465716.756304.575280715&type=1&l=ca0ad46607
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