Jo on the GS leading Nev on the Happy Valley Rd. back to the Hwy.
A first taste of the thick blanket of gravel which seems to be around everywhere!
Goodie
That “Dover Hills" bit sounds tempting…
And no, that isn’t a concrete bridge but tightly joined timber, which nearly had me arse-up, bowling into everyone standing at the intersection just to the right.
What a slippery little bastard…check the tyre-tracks, that was the front-end going walkabouts.
We turn north again on Hwy 1, before tacking inland just after the Hurunui River bridge, one of those loooong single-lane bridges so common around here.
This is it….the first of the “special sections”….the Old Culverden Stock Route.
It cuts west from the coast, across the Lowry Hills Range and into the wide, flat Waiau Valley, using farm-roads into Culverden…. or further north, into Waiau.
That’s the way we’ll take…and it’s straight into the backroads.
A first taste of the thick blanket of gravel which seems to be around everywhere!
Goodie
That “Dover Hills" bit sounds tempting…
And no, that isn’t a concrete bridge but tightly joined timber, which nearly had me arse-up, bowling into everyone standing at the intersection just to the right.
What a slippery little bastard…check the tyre-tracks, that was the front-end going walkabouts.
We turn north again on Hwy 1, before tacking inland just after the Hurunui River bridge, one of those loooong single-lane bridges so common around here.
This is it….the first of the “special sections”….the Old Culverden Stock Route.
It cuts west from the coast, across the Lowry Hills Range and into the wide, flat Waiau Valley, using farm-roads into Culverden…. or further north, into Waiau.
That’s the way we’ll take…and it’s straight into the backroads.