{"id":580,"date":"2013-07-04T19:30:37","date_gmt":"2013-07-04T07:30:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bamba.org.nz\/?p=580"},"modified":"2016-04-12T19:46:28","modified_gmt":"2016-04-12T07:46:28","slug":"minutes-4th-july-2013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bamba.org.nz\/?p=580","title":{"rendered":"Minutes &#8211; 4th Jul 2013 (GM)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Location: The Woolshed, Stratton St, Normandale, Lower Hutt, 7:30 pm<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Present<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Marco Renall, Matt Clarke, Craig McGinnity, Paul Scoble, Angus Cotton, Ron Hadfield, Rob Lancaster, Wayne Bones (GWRC), Jeremy Patterson (GWRC), Gordon MacDonald (HVMTB), Michael Wood (Orienteering HV).<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Apologies<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Tyrone McGrath<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>General Business<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Wayne from GWRC made mention that at present GWRC is not able to assist with funding for supply of refreshments at working bees etc. Wayne did however mention that whilst GWRC are not saying an outright NO, the present issue is one of where does the funding come from to cover it. GWRC will look at this in the future in more depth and will advise of any outcomes or changes then.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Possible track ideas \/ plan<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>A good amount of ideas were tabled by those who were present. These are mentioned below in no particular order. Note I have however placed both the presidents and vice presidents ideas at the start. It needs to be made clear that these are just ideas and the committee will need to again go over them all and have a consensus as to what is viable and what is more suitable for the park in the future.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"> Short Term (1-2 years)<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Complete Bull Run.<\/li>\n<li>Bulls view loop &#8211; (or use the gas line track where gorse has already been cleared as a short connector from pylon down to Bull-a-Varde and possibly name it \u00e2\u20ac\u0153NAKED FLAME\u00e2\u20ac\u009d).<\/li>\n<li>Tidy up Sweet acres track to improve as more suitable uphill ride ability.<\/li>\n<li>Reopening of Big Weta.<\/li>\n<li>Construct a top for Big Weta &#8211; matching up with similar style and grade using Danzig \/off camber\/ slide ridge face.<\/li>\n<li>Grade 2 track\u00e2\u20ac\u201c to run downhill top to bottom. Start would looped with GWRC new Danzig uphill only track (using old choppers area). Build as a cross between snail trails @ WTP and North face @ Makara.<\/li>\n<li>Lower loop style maze \u00e2\u20ac\u201c From Wool shed area up to Big Weta bridge with multi ways and grades down (good summer project).<\/li>\n<li>Grade 4 in bush area beside (east) of last sun.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Medium Term (2-4 years)<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Further development of old pine, Aim towards grade 4+.<\/li>\n<li>Middle ridge single track finishing behind trig lagoon.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">\u00c2\u00a0Long Term (4-5 years)<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Multi use track from Korokoro dam to bottom of trig, bidirectional.<\/li>\n<li>10 minute grade 4 epic track running from trig to stream. Built similar to Rainbow Mountain. (Good mix of tech and digger built flow!).<\/li>\n<li>Speedy&#8217;s creek \u00e2\u20ac\u201c multi use track running hill road car park to Kelson lights.(Apparently some section already exists also).<\/li>\n<li>Grade 3 MTB track from Maungaraki reservoir to Korokoro dam.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Other ideas tabled<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Mana Cycle Group \u00e2\u20ac\u201c Re Entrance \/ key connection Belmont hill road (Pauatahanui side)<\/li>\n<li>Upper Korokoro catchment area. Single track, two way? grade 2\/3. Old coach road around to middle ridge area.<br \/>\n(NB: Ranger advised 1st farm block in upper Korokoro area to be retired from farming ASAP. 2nd block, Turbys gorge retired in 2016.)<\/li>\n<li>Wetland style loop off Middle Ridge.<\/li>\n<li>Dry creek (Waterfall area) large basin for various tracks.<\/li>\n<li>link Speedy&#8217;s creek to Dry creek.<\/li>\n<li>Track off Sweet acres to Taupo rock then following back west around ridge to link at Bull a Varde.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Next Meeting<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\nTBA<\/p>\n<p>Meeting closed : 9.45pm<\/p>\n<p>Paul Scoble,<\/p>\n<p>Secretary, BAMBA<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Location: The Woolshed, Stratton St, Normandale, Lower Hutt, 7:30 pm Present Marco Renall, Matt Clarke, Craig McGinnity, Paul Scoble, Angus Cotton, Ron Hadfield, Rob Lancaster, Wayne Bones (GWRC), Jeremy Patterson<a href=\"https:\/\/bamba.org.nz\/?p=580\" class=\"more-link\">Read More <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Minutes &#8211; 4th Jul 2013 (GM)<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":335,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-580","post","type-post","status-publish","format-gallery","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-minutes","post_format-post-format-gallery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bamba.org.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/580","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bamba.org.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bamba.org.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bamba.org.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bamba.org.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=580"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bamba.org.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/580\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1324,"href":"https:\/\/bamba.org.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/580\/revisions\/1324"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bamba.org.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/335"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bamba.org.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=580"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bamba.org.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=580"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bamba.org.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=580"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}