Winter Solstice Weekend 2012

Taumarunui

22 - 24 June, 2012

 

 

 

Friday's and Saturday's rides started at the Taumarunui Holiday Park.

Ron         Susan         Garth         Louise         Judy         Margaret         Keith         Murray         Andrew

 

 

Click here for the GPS detail of today's ride

 

 

 

 

 

Early morning preparations.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Taumarunui is down there somewhere.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Ruapehu District Council had a road closure for the ACTA ride.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Two cyclists got away on the downhill.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

This has to be mid-winter!!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

No privacy laws here, so the map gives away the location of all the farmers.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

ACTA members give life to the closed school.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

An ACTA heaven - grass in the middle of a gravel road.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Time to take in the view.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The leader works out his community service sentence.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Blunt speaking in Ohura.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The sun is about to set on the Forgotten Highway, and Taumarunui seems so far away.
Lucky all the party had lights  -  they needed them!!

 

 

 

 

 

 

Could it be we are looking at Ruapehu under the clouds??

 

 

 

Photos: Ron

Captions: Mostly from Garth.