We Discover the Ultimate 4WD Track in New Zealand! Water, Rocks, Mud, and a Hidden GOLD Mining Hut 

MERRY CHRISTMAS 😃🎄🎅 I hope you all have a safe and enjoyable Christmas break and I look forward to bringing you more content next year. If you would like to help out the channel, these are the 2 best options 1) www.patreon.com/user?u=81083211 2) www.buymeacoffee.com/joneslandri

As a kiwi in Australia I love seeing this from back home.

This is the best Land Rover content on RU-vid. Keep it up 😊

Love it 👍

Great video mate, i live on the Gold Coast but 35 yrs ago I used to live in Christchurch and was one of original members of the company that bought Thompsons flat and loved the trip into the hut ,it was one of the best trips we used to do

Love it 😀. I much prefer your video's to the ones you see were the engines are bouncing off the rev limiter. New Zealand sure is a beautiful place. I can see why so much movie filming gets done there 🤗. My Dad has a white Defender 90 😛

One word mate, EPIC!!

Great video. Looks like a fun trip. Love the sound of the tdi. Looking forward to spring when I can get my 200tdi out of winter storage and on the trails.

Looked like a ton of fun!

Cracking video. I really like the fact you do these trips in a reasonably standard vehicle, proof you don’t need massive tyres and lift.

Awesome video! This track had everything.👍 The river crossings were epic. The left side of you series seems to have acquired some creases I hadn’t noticed in previous videos. My restoration is coming along slowly. My wife is encouraging me saying it’s like eating an elephant; one bite at a time. Thanks Hayden!👍👌

Miss the land rovering in NZ

Just when I think I've seen most of the good off-road channels, here you pop up. I'm in North Carolina of the US, but on the western end where the mountains are. That old Landy is an amazing vehicle. I drive a early Isuzu Trooper that many people confuse with a Landy due to it's shape. It always amazes me me how the old trucks did quite well without thousands of dollars in traction control systems. Nice video and the views were very good, even without a drone.

Another awesome video Hayden! Thanks for taking us along for the ride !

Thanks for the videos mate, Hopefully see you on a track one day :)

24:19 Looks like a Land Rover advertisement

Genial vídeo, en lo que, a conducción todoterreno se refiere. Obstáculos complejos, sin caer en máxima dificultad e imposibilidad de superarlos. Buen trabajo de los conductores y sus vehículos, un hurra por ellos. El paisaje bonito y muy frondoso, me pareció precioso. En general, buen trabajo, felicitaciones y un saludo desde España ❤😊

So sick man. You're getting very good at these videos. I love the river crossings.

Thanks for sharing what an amazing place to explore. And it is so nice to see your treating it with the respect that it deserves. 😊

that looked a lot of fun

You've done it again. These video's are fantastic. You definitely deserve more subscribers/patreon members.

Great stuff .keep well guys from the uk

Thanks for making/sharing these videos. This looks an epic track and one to put on my list to do.

"Kinda like a sports car" 😂😂😂

Thanks

Thanks Hayden and Ben. Loved watching this video. Just subbed. How cool and fun! Loved watching the river crossings as well as talking us through it. You guys make a good team.

I really enjoyed the vlog God bless all of you

Thanks for the video .Bloody great very enjoyable

Great video! Definitely enjoyed the longer format 👏

Thanks Mate , That was a hell sick video. Happy X-mas 🎄🎉🎄🎉

Well done!

Another awesome video Hayden 👍 Except the split screen with Ben filming you, I was just watching him hoping he would slip and fall into the river.... 🤷‍♂️ 😅

Charging port will be full of dust, pocket fluff and god knows what else. Dude did mine in 3 miniutes with long skinny tweezers, was a ridiculous amount!! Cool vid, cheers

What a cool video, will definitely be doing these ones in the future!

To yyou thank you for sharing

Awesome content mate, only just found you’re channel yesterday and I’ve been binge watching it’s cool to see the old landys out there doing it, I’ve found more tracks to go thanks to you’re videos, drive a safari myself but also a fellow Canterbury local

awesome vid, my personal favorite two tracks

Wonderful!

Look at you in the sun in a T-shirt! Very jealous haha!! Freezing over here!! Great video!! I’ll watch it at home on tv too! Just a work on break! 😎👍 happy Xmas champ!

Cool vid , great stuff guys

Hi Hayden, that was a excellent drive some very nice New Zealand countryside, thanks for the ride-a-long, I would like to wish you and your familybandvdriving companions all the very best for a Very Merry Christmas and a safe and Happy New Year, very bedt regards from a ex ChCh lad now living in Melbourne

Another good vid. I was thinking the first track looked familiar. Must be 20 years since I did it in my lifted 3dr soft top Suzuki Vitara with Suzuki 4wd club. I remember driving across the first river and turn right and a tough bit with log to get over and then down into the river the whole way. Only prob was she was a bit light and I floated down the river during a crossing, still remember water flowing out of my electric window switches into the cab. Spark plugs out and turned the engine over to expel the water and phew all was well. Drove the 4wd track on the way back to reduce time in the river lol.

Oh man next time turn right into the bush track directly after the first river crossing (ford) and drive the whole river track. You got some great weather though! We were supposed to go in early dec but it rained way too much

Hi I like your video

“Give it some jandal…” don’t think there’s a more kiwi technical term than that aye 👍

Great video ❤

Great Landy's there and awesome trails, sic vid, cheers great inspiration before on head of tomorrow on my solo adventure. Merry Xmas and have a Happy New Years.🤘

NZ is awesome

Chur from Sydney bro. Former Tongariro maunga resident. Mad experience.

nice one bro i have not be ther yet cool place

Good video mate 👍🏼 where's the stig gone 😮 have a good Christmas 🍻

7% is pretty good! I get around 2% 😂 awesome video as always, thanks for sharing.

I had the same B engine/celica gbox set up in my series 3 until 5 th gear shit itself. Went back to a 5 bearing crank engine and gbox. Just need to get it rewired as it was 24v start

Great videos as always.. definitely one of my favorites channels to watch.. However I must say I was a bit saddened by the news you swapped out the LR motor for a Toyota motor and I think you said Toyota gearbox/ transmission? I have a NAS 95 D90.. and have thought long and hard should I ever have to replace the motor.. I’m really leaning towards keeping it LR..if at all possible.. I’m kind of a die hard that way. I’m It sure.. hope I don’t need to make the Dec decision for a very long time..😅🙄😩🤷🏽‍♂️

As always Brilliant Videos.. You Lucky Bugger... What happened to the "STIG" on your bonnet...? Cheers 🍻 and A Merry Christmas to you Boet..

I missed the location. Wow!!

Access past the gate is fun, but the ruts are getting big on the flat. You need bar work and big tyres.

Hi Hayden and ben great fun aye where was this track please ? looking for some adventure over the holidays

When crossing rivers you should always drive with thecurrent , not against it.

Interesting that you have a Toyota engine and transmission. How did you mate the transfer box to the transmission and was there a big offset going to the differentials?

Great trip! Don’t give away too many location dets please!!

hey hayden ive watched a few of your vids now and they are amazing. i just wanted to ask where this place is and is it public? im 15 and getting my licance next year and love 4wd and hunting. and i have a whole list of places i want to go and thing would be grate to add to my list thnaks.

Looks like the west coast somewhere awesome spots 😎

Were abouts is this and how to get there? Next time im in nz ill would like to take the kids there. Are you about camp there?

Merry Christmas from the Northern Hemisphere! To what extent are you using low ratios and locking the diff when you do this or does it just not need it?

Did I get a post from you I just saw a photo of you looks like the caves up waipuna road just out of Ikamatua I’m not sure what the post is for can’t find it

Good afternoon do you have to get permission to go through the gate at the start

almost as good as a model train video

Any hints where we could find this track?

A ‘cell’ phone in NZ?

where was this track???

Wheres this track?

Ok so you have a Toyota engine and gear box...no wonder you are able to do these remote drives...Toyota reliability taking you pla.

Be careful what you post , 2 tracks into 2x Private Huts . Both are really neat locations but don't need any recognition . Please do not share the whereabouts .. Thank you

And now everyone knows where it is and people will destroy it great.

Hey hayden, I'd like to team up and test my Rig out. im on to my second build, How do we get hold of you , from the north island and love 4x4 overlanding

Amatør🫣👎🏻🇩🇰