Another trail with some history brings us to the Timber Trail in the Pureora Forest region between Lake Taupo and Te Kuiti. The trail takes advantage of the old logging Ongarue Tramway used to harvest trees of the forest in early 20th century. Rail lines were built to get the trees out, camps were built to … Continue reading Biking NZ Part 3: Timber Trail
The North Island of New Zealand is ground to a variety of many different landscapes, and somewhere near the middle is Tongariro National Park. In some places within the park like the famous Tongariro Alpine Crossing hike, it could be regarded as one of the busiest places to visit, whereas other hikes/bikes have been some of … Continue reading Biking NZ Part 2: Tongariro National Park
One of the main reason for visiting New Zealand stems from the rumor that they have a dense network of bike trails across the country. It turns out this is no rumor and once we started biking, it soon became real that it was going to be quite a task to ride all the trails … Continue reading Biking NZ Part 1: Windy Wellington
Since 1929 Temple Basin has been serving the skiing community of New Zealand. Between a mandatory 45min hike to the hill from the road and rope tow lifts, the crowds tend to be non-existent even when we were there on a powder weekend. The terrain is all time as well. With no groomed trails and … Continue reading Splitfest NZ 2016: Temple Basin
Within the Makarora region of Mount Aspiring National Park and heading west through the Haast Pass at Fantail Falls (pink star), we decided to tramp up with our splitboards to Brewster Hut for another epic Kiwi-style backcountry ski adventure. When looking from a topo map the tramp (black dashed line) is only 2.5km in distance, … Continue reading NZ Ski Touring: STFU Brewster Hut
Date: August 26th, 2016 Location: Treble Cone Ski Resort, New Zealand Base Snow Depth: ~150cm New Snow: 15cm overnight Weather: Sunny, 5km/hr Northly wind, 3 degrees Posted by Mitch Continue reading Treble Cone: Backcountry
If you spend some time in Wanaka, there’s a good chance you’ll hear about the must hike up to Roy’s Peak. We decided to take on this classic Kiwi tramp with the added challenge of bringing our splitboards along for the adventure. The trail itself was only a 6km drive from our holiday park heading … Continue reading NZ Ski Touring: Roy’s Peak
As winter has begun to shape up here in New Zealand and precipitation has come along with the cold, we’ve finally started checking out some of the local touring around us in Wanaka. Day 1 (07/25/2016) The Pisa Range is best accessed by driving up Snow Farm and using the cross country trails in order … Continue reading NZ Ski Touring: Pisa Range
Posted by Marisa Continue reading New Zealand: West Coastin’
We’ve been taking advantage of some of the amazing trails that New Zealand has to offer, and the 42 traverse was a bike that really checks all the boxes. Great Scenery. Check. Tech and Flow sections. Check. More downs than ups. Check. The thrill of an adventure. Check. It was about 45 kilometers in total and … Continue reading NZ Backcountry Biking: 42 Traverse
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