The first weekend of February saw a couple of members head to Minginui in an effort to scope out and clear or reopen a few tracks for the club to explore. Minginui is ideal in that the tracks are usable even in winter as rainfall doesn't seem to affect the tracks too much. Er, . . good theory except that the ruts seem to be growing.
. . . hence the digging I guess. And it wasn't the last time we'd end up with a shovel in our hands either.
Why is it that the photo never shows the true, seat sucking, moon shot, nose in the air feeling that you experience at the time? What it FELT like was that the back end of the truck was going to undertake the front end if I gave it any more jandal. . .
. . . of course the reality was that the truck couldn't go anywhere tyres up/shiny down. I'm gonna blame it on the screaming passenger and child in the back. Who says chivalry is dead? Lockers did help and I have to say the other trucks went a different way. By this stage the Hydro Road was looking less and less like a shiny type trip and more like a bush truck event.
Those of you who may have done the Hydro in the past probably won't recognise much of it now. The amount of rain the area has had over January has made quite an impact and the ruts are only getting bigger.
I think at about this point, Colin was keen to get rid of a few body panels.
The next day was spent reclaiming an old track long since overgrown. This will make a nice loop to and from the end of Pigeon Camp and with a bit (certainly a lot less than Hydro) of judicious shovel work will fall into the shiny category.
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