The Old Whangamomona Road WITH the camper trailer! They warned us not to!

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The Old Whangamomona Road is an unmaintained paper road suitable for 4x4 vehicles. It follows the Whangamomona River and passes through native bush with two old hand-dug tunnels on the way. Its about 11km and takes you from Whangamomona Hotel to the Bridge to Somewhere. Mud terrain tyres and a winch are highly recommended. Don’t forget to stop at the Whangamomona Hotel and make a donation to the road maintenance fund as the track is exclusively looked after and maintained by the local 4wd clubs now 👍🏻

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@grunkalunka3449 Месяц назад

Hats off to the guy towing the trailer. I do a fair bit of towing offroad myself, and adding a camper trailer just puts you in a whole different league of offroading. He did a great job.👍

@karlmartinovich Месяц назад

Thanks mate appreciate it! Yea the trailer makes it fairly challenging through a slippery track like that one. Cheers for watching 👍🏻

@tonynz2024 21 день назад

Wow that SAF is mean

@karlmartinovich 21 день назад

@@tonynz2024 thanks mate 🫡

@garycarlin4732 Год назад

strange that you missed the ROAD CLOSED sign

@karlmartinovich Год назад

The road closed sign is permanently up 365 days a year to deter muppets according to the locals. The track has a proper closure over winter though and opens again after labour weekend 👍🏻

@garycarlin4732 Год назад

@@karlmartinovich 🤣good track tho, but wouldn't have taken a trailer thru

@garycarlin4732 Год назад

@@karlmartinovich took 3 of us 8 hours to get thru earlier in the year, a lot of winching, the track was worse then

@nathanbates1260 10 месяцев назад

Grew up in Whanga. Me and my brothers would go camping/hunting /eeling way up the back of Whanga road. On our pushbikes. And go rafting down the river after floods. Was a slog in that thick mud. Brings back memories.

@karlmartinovich 10 месяцев назад

Was certainly a beautiful area to explore 👍🏻

@craigrobinson2745 11 месяцев назад

Mint looking track. oldmate in cruiser needs to follow ruts bit more maybe put tape on centre of his steering wheel 😆 no point in fighting it. Good content 👌

@karlmartinovich 11 месяцев назад

A typical cruiser driver haha. But jokes aside, that track was so bloody slippery in some areas that it was hard to know which way your wheels were even pointing. Cheers for watching mate 👍🏻

@kadebellve1427 Год назад

At 9:30 I slipped down that bank abit an had to put that sleeper across because we didn’t have a winch

@karlmartinovich Год назад

Yea that was a tight corner to get the trailer around for sure

@RockbasherV8 3 месяца назад

From the uk all ours are closed also and it's now boring Yorkshire and derbyshire is dead of tourists now so the question is this can your authority's police them ours can t plus the fines if you get caught ain't thst big we call it greenlaning don't run scared like the green laners did in the uk carry on I say good luck

@karlmartinovich 3 месяца назад

Hey mate. Some of our tracks over here have winter closures like this one which our 4wd community is happy to respect. If we continued to go in when theyre closed over winter, they would end up destroyed due to their soil type and become impassable for anything other than highly modified comp trucks. Its not too inconvenient though as theres plenty of other tracks here that are open all year round. Cheers for watching 👍🏻

@NoToBigBro 9 месяцев назад

Geez, what a thriller! It reminded of the 1977 movie "Sorcerer."

@KiwiPokerPlayer 10 месяцев назад

At 0:22 was that the axles on the first bounce and the CVs on the second one? hahaha. 3:10 I bet you were all concentrating down that. I hate that kind of mud, especially through a gorge with big drops like that.

@karlmartinovich 10 месяцев назад

Haha! Yea those step dropoffs definitely made the heart beat a bit faster! Thanks for watching 👍🏻

@moa-wg3bo Год назад

Wow thats a seriously cool track. Do you think it would be doable on a vehicle with 27inch muds? 200mm rear diff clearance. Looks like you guys did it on a wet day

@karlmartinovich Год назад

We were both on 33s. Yea there was a massive amount of rain before we headed in there so the track was pretty greasy but it would be easy in the dry. It closes over the winter so best to check with the pub before you head in mate 👍🏻

@ABL973 Год назад

Wow! Fantastic muddy track ... narrow with same decent looking drop-offs. Well done! And a good run down of your specs in that cruiser ;-)

@karlmartinovich Год назад

Yea not a lot of room for error next to those drop offs! Thanks for watching 👌🏻

@adventureswithjillgonegecko Год назад

Looks like you had a bit fun! Looking a wee bit wetter than a few weeks earlier, but looks like it made for a good challenge. Love those dedicated videographers, such great commitment girls! 😂

@karlmartinovich Год назад

Haha yea we were hoping for conditions like when you guys went though 😂

@DavidRobertson27 Год назад

What is that anchor point (eg orange metal object) that you use to winch off. That looks very handy.

@karlmartinovich Год назад

Yea its a good bit of gear when theres no decent trees to winch from. Its called a land anchor 👍🏻

@smiles_per_hr6408 Год назад

Nice work. Definitely gets greasy real fast on Papa once it gets wet. Other than how greasy it was, it looked to be in reasonable condition. I was watching as you went through the tunnels to see how nasty the approach to the Arnold river bridge was, but they must have fixed that at Labour weekend too. It had a nasty step when I went through.

@karlmartinovich Год назад

Thanks mate. Yea youre right it was in pretty reasonable condition and if it was dry, it wouldve been easy as imo. Ive never driven on papa before and it was incredible how slippery that stuff gets when wet. Yea the locals told me they had a digger in and fixed that bridge on labour weekend 👍🏻

@nzmarkb8713 Год назад

That’s looking a bit more cut up than last time I was there But that I’d be 7 or 8 years ago 👍👍

@karlmartinovich Год назад

Haha yea I bet! Thanks for watching 👍🏻

@nathanbradley4836 Год назад

some good technical drives there - full credit. I imagine the cleanup took some time!

@karlmartinovich Год назад

Haha yea it did mate. Thanks for watching 👍🏻

@reckuerata305 3 месяца назад

Thanks mate yourve just given me my next adventure

@karlmartinovich 3 месяца назад

Cheers for watching mate. Keep in mind the tracks closed over winter and normally re-opens at labour weekend 👍🏻

@amilachathuranga6916 Год назад

Ohh thanks god. Amazing road and amazing driving..👈🤣🤣💪💪💚

@karlmartinovich Год назад

Thanks for watching 👍🏻

@mnctori123 Год назад

Looked like a lot of fun lads 👍 and the bloopers at the end of the vid are hilarious 😂🫢

@karlmartinovich Год назад

Haha they were too good not to add. Thanks for watching 👍🏻

@marksharman8029 Год назад

Jeez.

@abrighterday508 Год назад

Whos idea was that, that was a cool track

@karlmartinovich Год назад

Every great idea happens after a few drinks haha. Thanks for watching 👍🏻

@lewismx8815 Год назад

Love your work mate!

@karlmartinovich Год назад

Thanks man. Cheers for watching 🤙🏻

@huntersimmons3108 Год назад

wow that looked awesome

@karlmartinovich Год назад

Thanks mate cheers for watching

@youtuberAstar Год назад

I would have put aggressive snow chains on. Thanks for sharing.

@karlmartinovich Год назад

Nah chains destroy mud tracks. Cheers for watching 👍🏻

@youtuberAstar Год назад

@@karlmartinovichWe use chains on the farm and they do FAR LESS damage than what you guys are doing ! Just saying.

@karlmartinovich Год назад

@@youtuberAstar yea ive seen chains used on tracks. Lets just agree to disagree on this one. Have a good one mate 👍🏻

@youtuberAstar Год назад

@@karlmartinovich OK. Enjoyed your video. Thanks for sharing.

@Motumatai3 Год назад

@@youtuberAstar Chains and track damage are very dependant on throttle setting.

@charliewalsh9237 Год назад

Found ya mate 👍

@karlmartinovich Год назад

Awesome mate hope you enjoyed the video 👍

@charliewalsh9237 Год назад

@@karlmartinovich yeah mate watched a couple so far. Keep up the good work 👍

@loudas Год назад

Epic

@karlmartinovich Год назад

Thanks man. Watched your vid from about a year ago in there. You guys did well 👍🏻

@loudas Год назад

@@karlmartinovich Thanks .. I'm keen to go back .. having some bar work done now so I break things less :)

@AlLyn-t5m 8 месяцев назад

Great contribution to the wreaking of the track doing it when so wet.

@karlmartinovich 8 месяцев назад

People like you really make me laugh aye. Thinking theyre an expert but genuinely have no idea haha. Dont buy into the headline champ… we were given lots of advice and encouragement by the locals who actually maintain the track so no need to worry your small mind over it 😂

@CaMae86 Год назад

Next year "oh man why are all the tracks getting closed?" 🫣

@karlmartinovich Год назад

Why would this track get closed? Its well maintained by the local 4wd clubs to which we also contributed to their maintenance fund at the local pub? To educate you… tracks get closed because people dont stick to the formed track, leave their rubbish and toilet paper behind, winch off farmers fences, dont leave gates as they found them and use tyres bigger than 33inch causing massive ruts… none of which we did or had. Thanks for commenting and watching 👍🏻

@Mull1tsmissions Год назад

@@karlmartinovich Well said Karl. That person clearly has no idea.

@loganpilcher1203 Год назад

We as a club do alot of work with the council and the locals to keep this track open. It does shut for winter

@karlmartinovich Год назад

@@loganpilcher1203 you guys do an awesome job and we both put some cash into the maintenance fund at the pub 👍🏻. Id hate to see what the track would become if the local clubs didn’t maintain it