The Old Whangamomona Road WITH the camper trailer! They warned us not to!
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- Опубліковано 26 кві 2023
- The Old Whangamomona Road is an unmaintained paper road suitable for 4x4 vehicles. It follows the Whangamomona River and passes through native bush with two old hand-dug tunnels on the way. Its about 11km and takes you from Whangamomona Hotel to the Bridge to Somewhere. Mud terrain tyres and a winch are highly recommended. Don’t forget to stop at the Whangamomona Hotel and make a donation to the road maintenance fund as the track is exclusively looked after and maintained by the local 4wd clubs now 👍🏻
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Grew up in Whanga. Me and my brothers would go camping/hunting /eeling way up the back of Whanga road. On our pushbikes. And go rafting down the river after floods. Was a slog in that thick mud. Brings back memories.
Was certainly a beautiful area to explore 👍🏻
Thanks mate yourve just given me my next adventure
Cheers for watching mate. Keep in mind the tracks closed over winter and normally re-opens at labour weekend 👍🏻
Geez, what a thriller! It reminded of the 1977 movie "Sorcerer."
Mint looking track. oldmate in cruiser needs to follow ruts bit more maybe put tape on centre of his steering wheel 😆 no point in fighting it.
Good content 👌
A typical cruiser driver haha. But jokes aside, that track was so bloody slippery in some areas that it was hard to know which way your wheels were even pointing. Cheers for watching mate 👍🏻
some good technical drives there - full credit. I imagine the cleanup took some time!
Haha yea it did mate. Thanks for watching 👍🏻
wow that looked awesome
Thanks mate cheers for watching
Love your work mate!
Thanks man. Cheers for watching 🤙🏻
Wow! Fantastic muddy track ... narrow with same decent looking drop-offs. Well done! And a good run down of your specs in that cruiser ;-)
Yea not a lot of room for error next to those drop offs! Thanks for watching 👌🏻
Looked like a lot of fun lads 👍 and the bloopers at the end of the vid are hilarious 😂🫢
Haha they were too good not to add. Thanks for watching 👍🏻
Looks like you had a bit fun! Looking a wee bit wetter than a few weeks earlier, but looks like it made for a good challenge. Love those dedicated videographers, such great commitment girls! 😂
Haha yea we were hoping for conditions like when you guys went though 😂
Ohh thanks god. Amazing road and amazing driving..👈🤣🤣💪💪💚
Thanks for watching 👍🏻
Nice work. Definitely gets greasy real fast on Papa once it gets wet. Other than how greasy it was, it looked to be in reasonable condition.
I was watching as you went through the tunnels to see how nasty the approach to the Arnold river bridge was, but they must have fixed that at Labour weekend too. It had a nasty step when I went through.
Thanks mate. Yea youre right it was in pretty reasonable condition and if it was dry, it wouldve been easy as imo. Ive never driven on papa before and it was incredible how slippery that stuff gets when wet. Yea the locals told me they had a digger in and fixed that bridge on labour weekend 👍🏻
At 9:30 I slipped down that bank abit an had to put that sleeper across because we didn’t have a winch
Yea that was a tight corner to get the trailer around for sure
strange that you missed the ROAD CLOSED sign
The road closed sign is permanently up 365 days a year to deter muppets according to the locals. The track has a proper closure over winter though and opens again after labour weekend 👍🏻
@@karlmartinovich 🤣good track tho, but wouldn't have taken a trailer thru
@@karlmartinovich took 3 of us 8 hours to get thru earlier in the year, a lot of winching, the track was worse then
At 0:22 was that the axles on the first bounce and the CVs on the second one? hahaha.
3:10 I bet you were all concentrating down that. I hate that kind of mud, especially through a gorge with big drops like that.
Haha! Yea those step dropoffs definitely made the heart beat a bit faster! Thanks for watching 👍🏻
What is that anchor point (eg orange metal object) that you use to winch off. That looks very handy.
Yea its a good bit of gear when theres no decent trees to winch from. Its called a land anchor 👍🏻
Epic
Thanks man. Watched your vid from about a year ago in there. You guys did well 👍🏻
@@karlmartinovich Thanks .. I'm keen to go back .. having some bar work done now so I break things less :)
Wow thats a seriously cool track. Do you think it would be doable on a vehicle with 27inch muds? 200mm rear diff clearance. Looks like you guys did it on a wet day
We were both on 33s. Yea there was a massive amount of rain before we headed in there so the track was pretty greasy but it would be easy in the dry. It closes over the winter so best to check with the pub before you head in mate 👍🏻
Found ya mate 👍
Awesome mate hope you enjoyed the video 👍
@@karlmartinovich yeah mate watched a couple so far. Keep up the good work 👍
That’s looking a bit more cut up than last time I was there
But that I’d be 7 or 8 years ago
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Haha yea I bet! Thanks for watching 👍🏻
Whos idea was that, that was a cool track
Every great idea happens after a few drinks haha. Thanks for watching 👍🏻
I would have put aggressive snow chains on. Thanks for sharing.
Nah chains destroy mud tracks. Cheers for watching 👍🏻
@@karlmartinovichWe use chains on the farm and they do FAR LESS damage than what you guys are doing ! Just saying.
@@GerardMiles yea ive seen chains used on tracks. Lets just agree to disagree on this one. Have a good one mate 👍🏻
@@karlmartinovich OK. Enjoyed your video. Thanks for sharing.
@@GerardMiles Chains and track damage are very dependant on throttle setting.
Great contribution to the wreaking of the track doing it when so wet.
People like you really make me laugh aye. Thinking theyre an expert but genuinely have no idea haha. Dont buy into the headline champ… we were given lots of advice and encouragement by the locals who actually maintain the track so no need to worry your small mind over it 😂
Jeez.
From the uk all ours are closed also and it's now boring Yorkshire and derbyshire is dead of tourists now so the question is this can your authority's police them ours can t plus the fines if you get caught ain't thst big we call it greenlaning don't run scared like the green laners did in the uk carry on I say good luck
Hey mate. Some of our tracks over here have winter closures like this one which our 4wd community is happy to respect. If we continued to go in when theyre closed over winter, they would end up destroyed due to their soil type and become impassable for anything other than highly modified comp trucks. Its not too inconvenient though as theres plenty of other tracks here that are open all year round. Cheers for watching 👍🏻
Next year "oh man why are all the tracks getting closed?" 🫣
Why would this track get closed? Its well maintained by the local 4wd clubs to which we also contributed to their maintenance fund at the local pub? To educate you… tracks get closed because people dont stick to the formed track, leave their rubbish and toilet paper behind, winch off farmers fences, dont leave gates as they found them and use tyres bigger than 33inch causing massive ruts… none of which we did or had. Thanks for commenting and watching 👍🏻
@@karlmartinovich Well said Karl. That person clearly has no idea.
We as a club do alot of work with the council and the locals to keep this track open. It does shut for winter
@@loganpilcher1203 you guys do an awesome job and we both put some cash into the maintenance fund at the pub 👍🏻. Id hate to see what the track would become if the local clubs didn’t maintain it
Lol someone who doesn’t drive tracks commenting like they know everything 🤡