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Keep up to date with MTB happenings in Golden Bay at http://baymtb.blogspot.com Kaiteriteri MTB Park For the latest goings-on at Kaiteriteri check out the blog http://kaiteriterimtbpark.blogspot.com/ Forest Access Update Codgers Trail Network - New Logging Road posted 11 December 2009. This road is all finished now, and machinery is off the site. ETA for the logging crews to come in and clear the windthrow block is now the end of January. Dunn Mountain Trail Please be advised that effective immediately, the Dunn Trail from Tantragee Rd to Four corners intersection is closed at all times due to the logging operation moving down the slope. This closure will remain in place through to December 23rd, with the trail open over the holiday break between Dec 23rd and Jan 5th, when it will be closed until further notice while all that pine stand is removed. Riders can still access Fringed Hill, but only via the 'Classic'. Please pay attention to all signage, danger tape and warnings up there, and don't enter this area while it is closed. Period: 7th December to 21st December 2009 Logging crews operating at the following sites: Hira (four sites) - Groom Creek Rd; Fringed Hill; Packers Rd and Savage Rd. Lee Valley (two sites) - Chrome Creek; Shaggery Waiwhero - operations finished for the time being Waimea (one site) - Spur Rd Please take note of all safety signage and access information at forest entrances. These forests are currently accessible Saturdays and Sundays only - please do not enter any forest where there is a logging operation under way (other than Saturdays and Sundays where applicable and where notified). Serpentine-Clover Knob 12/12/09 Closed weekdays and weekends until logging is finished. 30 April 2009 Mountain biking starts on Abel Tasman National Park track MTBs in Abel Tasman National Park Abel Tasman National Park's Gibbs Hill Track this week becomes the first Nelson national park track that can be mountain biked with mountain bikers able to ride it for five months from Friday (1 May).Mountain biking is being trialled during the winter visitor season, 1 May to 1 October, over two years on the track that runs across the park between Totaranui and Wainui Bay. Monitoring will take place to determine whether or not mountain biking should be allowed to continue on the track beyond the two-year trial period. The move follows a change to General Policy for National Parks which now allows mountain biking in national parks on routes specified in national park management plans. Mountain biking provisions were included in a new Abel Tasman National Park Management Plan that came into effect late last year. DOC Golden Bay Area Manager John Mason said mountain bikers could just ride the 10-km Gibbs Hill Track or make a 23-km round trip by also cycling on roads between Wainui and Totaranui. We hope mountain bikers will enjoy this first riding opportunity in Abel Tasman National Park.
Mountain biking is illegal on the Heaphy Track and elsewhere in Kahurangi National Park under park bylaws now in place. People can be prosecuted under the bylaws for mountain biking in the national park. Options for mountain biking in Kahurangi National Park are presently being considered in a partial review of the park's management plan. What mountain biking can take place in the park won' t be established until the review is completed and a new reviewed management plan is in place specifying the mountain bike access allowed. The public will have the chance to comment on proposals for mountain biking in the park when a draft reviewed management plan is released for public submissions, expected to be before the middle of this year. Public submissions will be taken into account in preparing a final draft reviewed plan for consideration by the Nelson/Marlborough Conservation Board and then the New Zealand Conservation Authority. Media contacts: John Mason, DOC Golden Bay Area Manager, ph (03) 525 8026. Trish Grant, DOC Nelson/Marlborough communications advisor, ph (03) 546 3146. Additional information Gibbs Hill Track can be cycled in either direction. It is graded as an intermediate-level mountain biking track. No more than eight riders are allowed in a group. Mountain biking is not allowed on other tracks in the area. Mountain biking is also now allowed year-round on a short section of another Abel Tasman National Park track. The Moa Park Track can be cycled, between the turnoff on the Rameka Track, which is legal road and currently used for mountain biking, and the Wainui Track turnoff. This section of track links with a mountain bike track being developed in the adjoining Canaan Downs Scenic Reserve, providing a round trip. The current Kahurangi National Park Management Plan came into effect in 2001. Under the General Policy for National Parks in place at the time, mountain bikes were categorised as vehicles which were prohibited in national parks except on formed roads. Nelson MTB Club Trail Advocacy The Nelson MTB Club have two representatives meeting regularly with NCC staff on public land MTB trail development and issues. If members have any concerns we would encourage you to contact either Tim Tucker (027 2320280) or Chris Mildon (021 2309120) in the first instance for further information.
These regular meetings (and the work done in this area by past committee members) in no small part have helped with forward planning and securing NCC funding for trail development with several exciting projects on the go at the moment. The quickly formulating Regional Development Plan for MTB Trails to sit with the NCC is a natural addition to the established process already in place, and will only strengthen the club's involvement and ongoing relationship with the council. The NCC, along with our key forestry company Hancock Forest Management are partners in the club's trail advocacy efforts. They work alongside us, recognise and appreciate our passion and committment to our sport and are not the 'opposition'. The established forum in place with club committee representatives and NCC staff is the best place to deal with any trail issues on public land.
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