hey dave
pencil in 27-28 feb if your keen, since its a 10 hour one way trip for me looking at making a week of it. this weekend looks like the best tides low at 3ish and a big tide run and not to late in summer. after april weather tens to be a right off. im not going by the weather or i might not get there this year again! since i may be there most of the week.
BUT if you want to try another date add you 2cents

anyone else keen?

your right that looks good.

i'd suggest take the Wed off 24th head up and then you get the following days to make an attempt
thur low 2010/02/25 13:15 -0.89
friday low 2010/02/26 14:19 -1.12
Sat low 2010/02/27 15:13 -1.35
Sun low 2010/02/28 16:02 -1.54

yep! thinking of staying in auck for a night and maybe a day at muriwai or baylys or both. to break the trip up.

conrad

thinking, might need a day to play in the sand dunes too!

hey guys,are these dates set? got to check my diary carefully this year..

not totaly, but its based around a good tide and sooner rather than later to try and get some summer weather.

ok.... back to the 90 attempt.

i'll be looking at driving up to auck the evening of the 24th (wednesday). Staying at a mates in auckland then punching to the 90 early on the morning of the 25th (thurs). That would get me to the beach around low tide and mean i'd have thurs afternoon, friday and saturday for an attempt.

Sunday i'd have to do the LOOOOOOONG haul home.

If anyone wants to jump on board i'll have seats free. however my vehicle (being a work lease car) can't drive on the beach so i'll need to beg a lift in 50psi or northen Als vehicle for the actual attempt.

swt, that "pencil in" now in ink! and if the wind is eastly we just go to the other side of the country!!

I have to admit if the forecast is for bugger all wind i will pull pin. i don't want to drive 20hrs for 5 knot easterlies. i really want to see 10+knot westerlyish direction.

for me this is a one time thing. if i punch up there and its poohouse i wont be back..... not for 5 years or so.

yeah know what your saying, pitty its so hard to make the wind call this far away from it

why im just going to go and hope for the best

yeah. i'd love to just fang up and see what happens.....

but with a young family i get a couple of manly weekends away a year. i have to make them worthy. since kiting is so weather dependant it makes 100% pre commitment hard. if i turn up and its poo i've just poled one of the very few trips away that i get...

i also mountain bike. infact its my number 1 sport. and have a group of dudes wanting to me to go one mtb trips away..... so i have to make a decision. epic kiting trip or epic mtb trip. both will be glorious. BUT the kiting trip stands to be a blow out if wind doesn't play ball.

in know all excuses.... yourl get the final decision tuesday/wed that week. i'm hoping for epic 20 knots and stories to remember till my grave.

or baileys beach which is 5 hours closer and longer, hmm

yeah thinking of doing bailys as well!

so Whos in dave, al, any one eles???

not this one, unless some one has a spare hummer limo, that would be a cool trip

i like the idea of being there and buggying it , but not the before and after bit they are outweighing the buggy part hehe.

I love to buggy, hate to travel and hate camping, no surprise to most of you im sure.

In which case talk nicely to Al and ask him to take your buggy. then you can jump in the sv6 with me and haul up to ahipara and back in the minimal time possible.

Takapuna to Ahipara is 318km. Thats approximatly 3.5 hours in my wagon sitting on 108kph. really for you its not that far.

For the chance of an epic trip. perhaps the most epic trip you have been on surely the 3.5 hours drive up there is worth while?

you go to beach in the middle of winter, travel miles on a buggy with cold high winds,sand blasting in your face and everywhere else!! BUT ur scared of a little camping trip!?!?

i must kindda stick up for wayne here, atho we are all very dissapointred and really want you to come.....for example,next time i get to do this is when my kids can come with me!!
last time wayne and i went camping, i haddnt got the van aswell setup as i do now, so wayne had to sleep on a lino floor wedged between a wheelarch and a chillibin whilst getting eaten by the wildlife and enduring my snore!! wayne only allowed this to happen for an hour!! the rest of the nite was spent back on the campfire chair by the fire........wayne does not camp well.

but you would be well looked after this time, were a lot better at it now.

just booked time off work...im confermed 26,27,28,1
maby longer but only if i make excuses to boss!!

their will be myself, maby ange as my driver....my friend chriss and his gfrend hannah in a new mini campervan like mine, so we have a backup car anyway as they wont be buggying ,and if ange comes we have the moosebus...rexton..perrin..plummet and 50psi.oviusly are attending.

AWSOME

sweeeet..... so Al traveling up friday??
will you able to make it to the start for a friday attempt on the beach around group on the beach around ll?

50psi shall we hit baileys on the thurday?

Jimmy. you can stay in a cabin in the camp ground. no camping required. camping in the dunes at the top may or may not happen depending on wind/direction etc. all you need to do is find an air bed. theres heaps of tent space as i also have a tent.

ps Al. i have a little 12 amp hour battery you can have. it will give several hours of spot light performance before going flat. i'll bring it up with me...

choice plummet, light is good...thanks for that.

possiby start the trip thursday after work and just stop when were tired and carryon in the morning...but this depends..but that would definently get us their by 2pm so thats my plan..

what are you guys doing when you get to the top? we are all hoping to stay the nite at the cape somewhere fri/sat nite but open to what you guys are doing.

somehow managed to convince ange to come, so should be easy for us all to get around..

very exited.