Remutaka Cycle Trail In a Day

11 Apr 202223 Feb 2019 by Jacqui

Date: 27 January 2019.
Trip type: MTB (EM).
Location: Wellington.
Author: Richard.
Trampers: Garth (leader), Emily, Mark, Richard.

The weather forecast was for a warm dry day, with North Westerly winds decreasing. Good enough to go! With an early 06:45am meet up at Wellington Station we left on the 07:05 train to Upper Hutt, the first train out on Sunday. It was a short train and the number of bikes was officially limited … Read more

Rimutaka Cycle Trail

11 Apr 202216 Mar 2015 by Jacqui

Date: 28 February 2015 .
Trip type: Mountain bike ride .
Location: Upper Hutt to Wellington City via Wairarapa South coast and Days Bay .
Author: Garth Ireland .
Trampers: Sam Thornton (leader) and Ed Turner, Garth Ireland.

We met at the Wellington Railway Station and caught the 7:05 am train to Upper Hutt. It was our first experience of the new rail carriages – very smart indeed. We discovered that cyclists have priority over passengers for up 3 bikes per car utilising dedicated fold back seating. Arriving at 8:00 am we set … Read more