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Diaries Downunder – Episode 2

Episode 2 of Destination Queenstown’s Diaries Downunder was released this week Featuring Nathan Rennie’s new business Lower45 Bike Camps as well as Vertigo Heli Tours and Southern Galcier Helicopters. Watch the vide on vimeo or over on  http://www.diariesdownunder.com/ Diaries Downunder – Episode 2! from Diaries Downunder on Vimeo.

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Trail Building and MTB Survey update

mtb trail building at 7 Mile Queenstown

Last spring the Queenstown mountain bike club  surveyed its members to find out where to target the clubs resources and time.  The QMTBC was originally formed to build new trails and gain access to existing trails and this remains the primary focus. As reported in the original survey results, respondents said that they wanted to see [...]

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Scrub clearing for new singletrack.

This afternoon a crew will be out at the Moke Lake Rd clearing a path through scrub for DOC to inspect  the path of  the new singletrack to Moke Lake.  If you want to come along and help meet the guys at R&R at 4:15pm. If you can’t make 4:15pm then just head up the [...]

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Massive XC trail expansion planned

overgrown mining site

There has been quite a lot of progress in the last few months towards enlarging Queenstown’s range of cross country trails.  The recent mountain bike club trail survey showed there there is a real demand for more XC trails especially out in the fantastic back-country around Queenstown. With this in mind the club has put together a [...]

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2011/12 Trail Survey

Help us to prioritise what we should focus on first! Please take 2mins to help us help you by completing our 2011 online survey on the QMTBC website. As a new MTB season approaches your input is vital to ensure that our key projects meet your needs and we continue to have lots of new [...]

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New Queenstown/Wakatipu MTB map!

Picture of the main map page

Yes, it’s finally ready – probably New Zealand’s best club produced mountain bike map! After many hours of Hamish Seaton’s skilled GPS mapping and Nick from Fluid Designs’ impecable design work, and heaps of work from Kate Long pulling it all together we now have a fully re-vamped map. They’re in stock at all of the Queenstown [...]

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Coal Pit saddle – Ben Cruachan

This has to be one the best Back Country rides in the district if not the country! A huge 700 vertical meter climb up Coal Pit Road to Coal Pit Saddle, then continue around the flowy water race track for 4km, A steep track climbs for a few km to a 4WD track on the [...]

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