Ocean Beach

Remutaka Cycle Trail In a Day

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

Looking Home

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

Mount Matthews and Ocean Beach: wild and wonderful weather

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Date: 13-15 October 2017.
Trip type: Medium Tramping.
Location: Mt Matthews and Ocean Beach, Remutaka Forest Park.
Author: Cindy.
Trampers: Bram (leader), Sam, Ingleborg, Barbara (chief photographer), Cindy (scribe).

Long summery evenings are a most wonderful thing. It was still light as we bounded along the Orongorongo Valley track on Friday evening; dark only settling down upon us as we reached the river. Using a waypoint that Bram had marked on his gps we successfully navigated in the, suddenly rather dark darkness, to the … Read more

Two wheels versus two legs

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Date: 21 November.
Trip type: Medium cycle.
Location: Rimutaka Cycle Trail.
Author: Sarah.
Trampers: WeiMin (leader), Yvonne, Kevin, Illona, Mike, Craig and Sarah.

I had run most of the Rimutaka Cycle trail before and I was keen to run the whole thing sometime as it would be a nice and long training run. However, I signed up to WeiMin’s trip to bike it as I thought it would give me a good challenge as I haven’t really done … Read more

Rimutaka Cycle Trail

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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