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10/02/2025

Day Four. A great day from Fairlie to Omarama.
Weather was a mixed bag and we had a little tyre trouble but overall its been good.
Low cloud initially obscured the views but cleared up later and the South Canterbury sun returned with a vengeance. From quite cool enough to quite hot enough, thanks very much in quite a short space of time.

09/02/2025

Day 3 of our February High Country Heritage was very much a day of two halves.
Fine, warm and dusty in the morning and cold, overcast and damp in the afternoon but not quite damp enough to be consistently dust free.
Tracks were good and while a more demanding day than the first two days we had a bit of fun and its been generally a good day.

08/02/2025

Day 2 of our February High Country Heritage trip.
Hanmer Springs to Methven via the Hawarden hill country, Lees Valley and then Porters Pass to the Lake Lyndon Road and the Rakaia Gorge.
A good day. Few hold ups including some delays resulting from the Coast to Coast race.
Good luck to all those tough fit people. Very special.
We have had a good day.

07/02/2025

Our February High Country Heritage 6 day got underway in Blenheim today with a full compliment of people eager to enjoy our 1250 km route south to Cardrona with overnights along the way in Hanmer Springs, Methven, Fairlie, Omarama and Cromwell before reaching our destination.
And today went really well straight out of the blocks.
Slightly cooler than normal which is no bad thing we progressed south out of Marlborough under generally overcast skies.

25/01/2025

Day 6 is done and so to our 2025 Trax of Gold is done also.
Its been a good trip with the weather especially playing the game pretty well and a great group of people to share the journey with.
Today from Mosgiel to Alexandra was a long but a good day.
Big shout out to the Middlemarch School community for the lunch and we are really pleased to be again supporting the Maniatoto St Johns Ambulance with a donation as an appreciation for land access in that area. Trax of Gold has again been a very good trip.

24/01/2025

Day Five of our Trax of Gold. Ranfurly to Mosgiel by the back tracks. Awesome new viewing platform at Macraes Mine and some awesome country in the back of the Strath Taieri.
And the weather has come good again.

23/01/2025

Day 4 of Trax of Gold has been a day of change.
Change of moisture level but most especially a change of temperature. From mid 20s down to less than half that. And thats made for a very pleasant day indeed. We made it to the Serpentine Church before it became too wet and largely our days plan was unaffected except that we didn’t get the distant vistas of the preceeding few days.
But no matter. Dust was much less of a feature.

22/01/2025

Day 3 of our Trax of Gold tour went really well. Some high tracks in the Northern Central Otago before descending into Ranfurly for the first of two nights in the Maniatoto town. Big shout out to the Maniatoto Cafe for the awesome catering.

21/01/2025

Day 2 of our six day Trax of Gold tour has been a stunner. A really good day.
Oamaru to Otematata via the Parkside Lime Quarry and then Vanished World in Duntroon followed by a fabulous farmhouse lunch and a fantastic drive over hill country north of Kurow.
Weather and ground conditions perfect.

20/01/2025

Our Trax of Gold tour got underway in Fairlie this morning aiming for Oamaru at the days end. All did not quite go exactly to plan and slick damp conditions on a grass section of track saw us turn around.
A very big turn around and we drove back roads to the western side of the mountains and did the track in reverse. By the time we got to what had a been a slippery uphill in the morning it was a pretty simple downhill in the mid afternoon. Certainly a lot drier.
So a stunner of a day really once that early fog had burn’t off.
Oamaru to Otematata tomorrow. Not even that far but we will make it last all day.

14/01/2025

Thanks everyone for the incredible level of interest in the couple of places on our March Big Sky 6 day tour.
But there were only the two places and they have been taken up.
Please let us know if you would like to get in the mail our information pack for the 2026 seasons lineup of tours and dates.
We have just finalised these in the last few days.
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13/01/2025

2025 Big Sky 6 day tour in South Canterbury and Central Otago. March 6th to 11th inclusive.
We have a relatively last minute vacancy
(2 people/ one vehicle) on this trip due to an accident.
Trip starts in Fairlie and travels the mountain ranges and intervening valleys of the Mackenzie Basin and Central Otago.
Assembles in Fairlie on the evening of the 5th and farewells are after breakfast on the 12th.
If this sounds like something you would like to have a look at then please give us a ring at 0274354267 or email [email protected]
Pictures are from last years Big Sky.

24/12/2024

Trying to work out which one is Jaxon ?
Obviously a Southland track so know he’s in the somewhere !

01/12/2024

Our first High Country Heritage trip is over and it has been absolutely fantastic. Great group of people following us along through great tracks. Some rough tracks to but still they followed us. Weather for both the first trips of the season has been wall to wall blue sky. Sun even shone down on the first snow fight of the season late on the final afternoon high in the Pisa Range above our final destination at Cardrona.
Our only blip was a customers severe allergic reaction to a bee sting on the lawn at our Omarama accommodation. Big shout out again to the fantastic care that came almost immediately from a couple of nurses on our trip and the Omarama First Response Unit and then the Otago Rescue Helicopter. Some pretty sobering and anxious minutes for us all.
Next day the bee sting man rejoined us and finished the trip.
So a trip remembered not just for the fantastic weather.
Bring on our Trax of Gold six day in mid January and best wishes to all our followers for Christmas and into 2025 in the meantime.

30/11/2024

Day Five. Omarama to Cromwell. After four days of relatively superb farm tracks we hit the rough and rapidly getting rougher DOC tracks of Otago hard today so a long slow morning through to St Bathans from Omarama.
Then back to superb station tracks in the afternoon between Alexandra and Cromwell.
Maybe not everyones favourite day but the great weather is holding for us and we are feeling lucky to be doing what we do.
Seeing the cars racing by on the tarmac far below.
They can have no idea whats out there ?

29/11/2024

Day Four. One of our favourite days anywhere we operate, this day takes us through the high country of South Canterbury and along the shores of massive Lake Benmore to eventually end up in Omarama.
Today drizzle in Fairlie caught us a little by surprise and it was quite cool, certainly compared with the day prior but the sun shone on us before we’d travelled far and it’s been a very pleasant day.

28/11/2024

Day Three. Methven to Fairlie. Thanks to the team at the Brinkley Resort in Methven. A good spot to overnight the tours.
Done and dusted is a good way to put it in describing the day.
Getting hot and a little on the dry side in the Canterbury high country.
But we got through the planned program without issue and its been a beautiful day.

27/11/2024

Day Two of six as our High Country Heritage trip rolls down the South Island. Today was Hanmer Springs to Methven. Big shout out to the team at Scenic Views Motel and the Power House Restaurant in Hanmer Springs for looking after us so well.
Its been a good day with plenty of variety.
This is a trip that ramps up as it takes us south.
So real low range driving in our immediate futures as we move into South Canterbury on Days three and four. Bring it on.