Mountain Tracks Vol 2

This next video is taken from two different tracks on two different days.  I was just pulling footage from different folders as I created it.  So we go from bright blue skies to moody leaden skies in one jump.  I know we can experience four seasons in one day here, but this is not the case of a single day here!

In the second half of the video you will notice that Craig had to endure being the meat in a Defender 110 sandwich all day.... A situation as a die hard Landcruiser guy he did not really like, but we ribbed him all day over the radio anyway.  Our guide on that track and for the entire day was John from Maniatoto 4WD tours.  His knowledge of the area and his love for the history, especially the gold mining history, that is littered all over this range really made this day a day to remember.

Sadly for me I lost the entire MicroSD card's worth of footage of the ascent and river crossings that we did on this day.  In my haste to change batteries on the GoPro, I popped out the MicroSD card and as I put the camera back in the housing, bent the card beyond saving and eventually when trying to rescue it later, it snappped.  I still have the card and am still hoping that I can rescue the footage, which was epic as we still had snow on the tops of one of the mountains we ascended  and the weather was so dark the clouds descended and as we went over one saddle we were in the clouds and could see them racing up the windward side of the saddle only to slow into casual eddies on the leeward side.  Would have made for a great single video.

Despite the loss of that footage, enjoy this effort and there is more to come.  However, work is looming and time is becoming scarce!  So the videos might take a longer time to make it to the blog.  A drip feed rather than a flood!


Mountain Tracks 2 from David Kinane on Vimeo.