What's On for 2010
Updated: 9 March 2010

Latest News and Events in the Auckland 4WD Club
Auckland 4WD Club Meetings Third Monday of each month. 8pm, Vintage Car Club rooms, Fairfax Ave, Penrose. These meetings are open to any person interested in joining the Auckland 4WD Club or needing advice about joining one of our 4WD trips. Down load Membership Forms Here: http://www.auckland4wd.org.nz/downloads/Auckland4WDClub%20MEMBERSHIP%20APPLICATION.pdf Club President Peter Vahry peter.vahry@xtra.co.nz The Club Monthly Magazine is now avaliable online for all to read. Click Here For The Link   Important stuff concerning all 4WD enthusiasts. Visit the New Zealand Four Wheel Drive Association for the latest news about important issues, which all 4wd enthusiasts should know about and should get involved with!    New Zealand Four Wheel Drive Association
Auckland 4WD Club Trips
Date Trip Details Trip Contact Grade       New online page to YouTube videos by Auckland 4WD Club members. http://www.auckland4wd.org.nz/visitors/article.asp?article=1069507622&catpage=1&pagename=/visitors/latestnews.asp     12 - 14 March Canteen Volcanic Plateau Safari CanTeen  (Supporting young people living with cancer) is organizing a 4WD fundraising trip into the Army Training area near Waiouru. Each 4WD will be teamed up with a Canteen kid for the weekend to tour around the base. More details to come. Mike: 021 308 430 Medium to Hard 13 - 14 March Te Awamutu Rotary Club Annual 4WD Safari The Te Awamutu Rotary Club are holding their annual 4WD Safari. This event is based in the Pirongia area. Entry Forms www.teawamuturotary.org.nz David Samuel: dsamuel@goldridge.net.nz Easy 15 March Monday Club night Club meeting. All interested persons welcome. 8pm, Vintage Car Club rooms, Fairfax Ave, Penrose. Social    28 March  Maratoto  A  run up Maratoto to check what maintenance needs doing and possibly a chance to plant some Kaihikatea saplings  Peter Vahry pr@auckland4wd.org.nz  Medium (if it's dry)    18 April  ARC tree planting  A day assisting with tree planting at a new regional park on Kaipara South Head called Te Rau Puriri ... shearing shed just pass farm house, 2911 South Head road, 9.00am. A drive around the park after the planting.  Peter Vahry  Easy (if it's dry) 19 April Monday Club night Club meeting and AGM  All interested persons welcome. 8pm, Vintage Car Club rooms, Fairfax Ave, Penrose. Social   30 April to May 2 The National 4x4 Expo As part of the Waikato Winter Show, April 30th to May 2nd  Incorporating:  NZ Off Road Short Course Grand Prix , Winch Truck Stadium Challenge     4WD Club Display Competition and a full Waikato Winter Show Programme     25,000 Crowd Expected over 3 Days   2010 Upcoming Trips Native Tree planting Working bee The Auckland 4WD Club has been granted $1000.00 by the Waikato DoC office to go towards the purchase of 200+ native trees to be planted in the Maratoto and Stadia areas over the 2010 winter. 300 trees where planted by members of several 4WD clubs during the 2009 winter. Peter Vahry Mobile: 0274 310 923 Email: president@auckland4wd.org.nz Medium to Hard   3 October   Muriwai Beach clean-up  The annual 4WD club's clean-up of the beach in association with the ARC.    Easy The Farm The Farm is a 1000 acre working Dairy farm on the Whangaruru Harbour just a short drive from Russel & The Bay of Islands. For the past 10 years, backpackers, schools, motorbike mates, horsey people, friends & family have been coming to spend time experiencing what life on our farm is all about; working, relaxing, days in the mud, days at the beach, horses, motorbikes, campfires, cows, dogs and kids. $20 a day (per vehicle) to drive the tracks for 4WD club members. http://www.thefarm.co.nz/ Michael Bennett 09-433 6894 Farm Tracks Tihoi Adventure Farms Tihoi Adventure Farms, 460 Hingarae Road, Tihoi, Taupo (off SH 32) 3000 acres and 25 kms of 4WD, Horse, Motorbike & Mountain bike tracks and trails. Tihoi Adventure Farm (07) 372 8888 ride@tihoi.com Farm Tracks     Hamilton 4WD Park 4WD park on a 240 ha farm 20 minutes drive west of Hamilton. $50 for the day and avaliable for guided tours, driver training and corporate events with a mix of farmland & bush tracks. Michael Sanson tel. 07 849 0964 4x4parts@xtra.co.nz medium to Hard www.nzfwda.org.nz     Check the NZFWDA website for other 4x4 activities and events     www.nzfwda.org.nz Trip Registration When applying to register for a 4wd trip online please supply the following information.  Name. Type of vehicle (must have low range). Other friend’s vehicles if any. Amount of experience if new to 4 wheel driving, i.e. none, some or heaps. Contact details including mobile number. Another family contact phone number in case of emergency.  Contact the trip leader as soon as possible and no later than the Thursday night before the trip. Trip numbers can limited on the more popular trips and can fill very quickly. Get in quickly! Don't be disappointed! Take note of the trip grading at bottom of this page to see if your vehicle and driving experience is appropriate for the trip. Check with the trip organiser! Most, if not all trips into the bush will have overhanging bush and the possibility of damage if driven carelessly or in wet weather (this changes very fast). Scratches on shiny vehicles are always a possibility due to the nature of 4 wheel driving in the bush. Trip Gradings Scenic/Social – Sealed roads and some good unsealed roads or tracks. No four wheel driving experience required. Road tyres are acceptable. Easy – Little or no four wheel driving experience required. All terrain tyres, front and rear recovery points at Trip Leader’s discretion. Medium – Low range may be needed with a snatch strap recovery possible. All terrain tyres or better. Front and rear recovery points (rated), basic recovery gear (snatch strap, 2 rated shackles and gloves), and appropriate driver knowledge. Hard – Steep terrain or rutted tracks. Snatch strap and / or winching recovery may be required. All terrain tyres acceptable, mud terrain tyres preferred, road tires are not acceptable. Front and rear recovery points (rated), basic recovery gear (snatch strap, 2 rated shackles and gloves), and appropriate driver knowledge. Winch and full recovery gear is preferred. Extreme – Very steep, deeply rutted tracks or rock hopping will be encountered. Front and rear recovery points (rated), full recovery gear (snatch strap, rated shackles, tree trunk protector, winch extension, drag chain and gloves), and appropriate driver knowledge. Winching will be expected and an electric or motorised winch is compulsory on all vehicles. Mud terrain or Simex style tyres essential. Warning: Vehicle damage may occur.
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Club's official PRS Radio channel. If you see any other club member driving about and try to contact them please now switch to Channel 16 for a chat.   42nd Traverse This Track is open from 1 st December to April 31st. During the summer months for 4WD use. Please respect this track and do not venture off the main track as this is a DoC requirement to help keep this track open for public use. The DoC Kiwi breeding team access the nest sites via these sidetracks. You will see vehicle tracks on them but please refrain from using them! This is a Kiwi Breeding area, so NO dogs and please no driving at night when birds are active! Please help to keep this track open for 4wd use and do not use over the wet winter months to avoid track damage. It remains open for mountain bikes, motorbikes & trampers, all year. This does not seem very FAIR for 4WD drivers considering it is the 4WD clubs who are the only user group doing the maintenance & track clearing work with DoC! Doc Info about the 42nd Traverse The Taupo 4WD Club organises a trip every year to help to clear the track. Help is always appreciated. This is also a great time to visit the area and meet new people from other clubs throughout the North Island. Keep a watch on the "What's On" listing above for the next clean up trip.   Maratoto Track aka Wires Track Please note that this track has become rougher over the 2009 winter and Mud tyres and groups of at least two vehicles are recommended for recoveries. Show room standard 4WD's on road tyres should not enter this track as you will get light scratches and will not be able to drive this track unaided. Track is NOW OPEN from 13 Nov 2009 DO NOT forget to donate $10 towards the maintenance of this track. This track is closed over the winter months to help control damage from vehicles and water erosion. This is in accordance with the DoC management plan. Please pay $10.00 toward the maintenance of this great track. This includes motor bikes as this user group never helps in the maintance work! There is a yellow box on the corner of Maratoto Rd & the Wires Rd. It's to help pay for the equipment to control water erosion and clear landslips for your continued use. Without this work by a small group of enthusiasts DoC would close this track for good! Phone 027 5242132 for recorded message regarding the status of the track. Check before you travel there. Note that the track may be closed at any time due to wet weather! Working parties are planned in the summer to help keep this track open. Contact Peter Vahry mailto:peter.vahry@xtra.co.nz (updated 19.12.09) The Loop Track  This track is not for the faint hearted. Inexperienced and ill-equiped 4WD's should not attempt this track. The Loop track is only sutiable for tough/rough trucks as it is an extreme track. Damage is to be expected! I have produced a DVD of a club trip through the loop and is for sale at a cost of $15.00 to cover costs. It is 20 minutes long. It gives a idea of the conditions when dry. Contact me: Safari on Patrol Productions alanhejl@orcon.net.nz (I drive a Safari)   Stadia Track There is now a locked wire barrier across the entrance to the Stadia trail to manage access. Please note that the track is on private land and a $25.00 fee is to be paid to the land owners. Visit the NZFWDA web site for info. www.nzfwda.org.nz Major earthworks to allow access for power pole maintenance have made the lower half of the track suitable for shiny trucks but the top half remains tough and is only for winch equipped vehicles. There are few mud holes at present and the aim is to maintain that standard. (updated 26.2.09) Contact Peter for more info. Peter Vahry mailto:peter.vahry@xtra.co.nz   Whangamomona Road The Whangamomona Road will be closed to 4x4 use during the winter from June 1 to September 30 by the road management committee. This is to stop unnessary damage to the track during the winter. Please observe this voluntary closure. There was a large slip about 3/4 of the way in the track. I have since been told that the track is now opened but could be a tight squeeze past. There is a large overhanging slab of Papa rock above the slip, which threatens to fall at any time on to the track thus extreme caution is required when driving under it! (updated 01.01.10). I have been told that driving this track in wet conditions is VERY dangerious due to the very steep terrain, slippery ground conditions and the drop-offs at the road edge to the river below.   TECT All Terrain Park Visit the TECT All Terrain Park web site keep you up to speed on a unique development that has the potential to become one of New Zealand's premier venues for active outdoor recreation - the TECT All Terrain Park. Some 1261 hectares of land, largely comprising forestry and native bush, in between Tauranga and Rotorua was purchased by the Western Bay of Plenty District Council and Tauranga City Council with the support of naming rights sponsor TECT (Tauranga Energy Consumer Trust) in 2004. Bay Community Trust provided initial loan facilities to Councils for the capital purchase of the proposed Park. An additional 385 hectares of land was brought by the councils in 2006. At this stage plans are underway to develop the park in stages over the next two decades. This staged development will allow different areas of the park to be developed over time to cater for a range of active and passive recreational activities including mountain biking, rallying, motocross, firearm sports, 4x4, equestrian, tramping, angling and orienteering. The first stage of development involves the councils working with potential users to ensure their needs are built into a development plan for the park. The development plan will provide the blueprint for future development including details of the type, timing and scale of activities and required infrastructure such as public access roads. It is anticipated that initial activities will get underway at the TECT All Terrain Park in 2009.   Australian 4WD TV Triangle TV Auckland:    Friday 9.00 pm Wellington: Friday 9.30 pm Stratos Stratos is on Sky 89 Freeview 21 Thursday 8.30pm    4x4 Western Austratia TV Show Follow Grizzlee, Matt, Cuz, and Liza-Mari as the team explore the world of 4WDing in Western Australia. You'll see events, tracks, locations, vehicles and their drivers, products, tech segments, and lots more. Going 4WD TV Show The Going 4WD Series 1st Aired on C31 March 2 - May 25, 2008, Going 4WD quickly became Melbournes # 1 4x4 TV Show in its 1st season. Going 4WD is all about Grass Roots Recreational 4x4. We promote Club activities including trips, bush clean up days, driver training etc. We will have sections on Tech Talk, How To's, Interviews, Product Reviews, Rigs Reviews & Competitions from time to time. The 4x4 Show The 4x4 Show brings you the best of Australian 4x4 action! Not just 4x4 but the entire outdoor scene in Australia, suspension setups, camping, caravans pretty much anything under the sun thats outdoors! Watch as Ray takes you through a whole host of 4wd races, terrain and adventures on this action packed show!
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