Hurunui Trails Trust
Hurunui Trails Trust

Who we are

The Hurunui Trails Trust was created by a group of enthusiasts with a passion for walking and cycling trails throughout the Hurunui District acting as the umbrella organisation to encourage a collaborative and strategic approach to growing the many opportunities.

The Hurunui Trails Trust was registered with the Charities Commission in April 2009 and is the lead agency in supporting the Hurunui District Councils Walking and Cycling Strategy.

The Trust’s vision is to provide a coordinated approach to the development of cycling and walking trails throughout the region taking advantage of the growing interest in these activities for recreation.

In a governance role, the Trust enables projects that will enhance and expand cycling and walking trails, as outlined in its Strategic Plan 2017-2020.

Trust Documents

codes

Respect others

  • Stay in control. So you can safely avoid others and keep yourself intact.
  • Give way to walkers.
  • Use a bell or greeting when approaching others. Most negative feedback from walkers on shared-use tracks concerns being surprised by bikers approaching without warning.
  • Ride shared-use tracks in small groups. A ‘bike-train’ with a dozen riders displaces other users. 6-8, or less, is a better number.

Respect the rules

  • Only ride mountain bike and shared-use tracks; stay off closed tracks – including those that are seasonally closed to protect the surface or minimise conflict with other users. Land managers are generally pretty reasonable so talk with them about issues or ideas you may have.
  • Be prepared – take food, water, tools, first aid and warm clothes. Plan for the unexpected – a change in the weather, an accident or getting lost and late.
  • Obtain permission from private landowners before you set out.
  • Leave gates as you find them either open or closed to keep stock where they are intended to be.

Respect the track

  • Don’t skid, cut corners or make new lines. Skidding creates water channels and causes erosion. Use both brakes to slow down without skidding as you approach a corner. Cutting corners is cheating and damages fragile ecosystems.
  • Avoid riding in the mud and rain. Both bikes and walkers damage soft, wet tracks.
  • Clean your bike to prevent spreading weeds like gorse and didymo.
  • Take rubbish home – like banana skins, old tubes and snack wrappers. Rubbish in the outdoors detracts from everyone’s experience.

Respect public access easements

Some mountain bike rides travel along public access easements through private land. All easements and tracks are well marked. 

  • Stay on the public easement track.
  • Leave gates as you find them.
  • Do not disturb stock – cycle slowly through livestock areas.

Don’t ride on designated Mountain bike tracks unless they are specifically designated multi-use tracks. Bikes may move fast and silently- bikers will be looking at the ground in front of the front wheel and won’t see you until too late, screeching on the brakes and spooking your horse. On a multi-use track, bikers will be alert for other users and hopefully travel more slowly. Horse riders, please remember to thank bikers who show you the courtesy of slowing down or stopping to let you go past. Bike and walking bridges are not designed to take a 600 kg horse. Please avoid using foot/bike bridges and boardwalks if at all possible. If your horse leaves a pile of manure on a trampers track, please get off and kick it off the track.

Camping on Public Conservation land.  

Don’t tether your horse or build a paddock near to a hut. Horse manure brings flies in summer, and not every user enjoys the aroma of horse manure. Remember some people are scared of horses. If the hut is shared, please try to keep your sweaty horse gear out of the hut under a tarp or under the hut as the smell may offend other users. When you de-camp, please kick the horse manure around to enable it to break down faster, and to help stop the breeding of botflies.

To horses, a bike is a silent predator who creeps up from behind, just out of their very wide field of vision. Sometimes that silent predator suddenly ‘screams like a Banshee’ by applying brakes as they approach the rear of the horse. This will startle and alarm the horse, possibly resulting in the horse kicking out and/or bolting. If you approach a horse and rider from behind on a multi-use track, please call out to alert the rider that you are coming. If passing a very nervous horse either direction, please dismount and give the horse room to quietly walk past. 

we would like to thank

Our community for donations and contributions from Friends of the Trail

Foundations members 5 x $1,000.00 individuals

Hurunui District Council

Hurunui Tourism

Rata Foundation

Walking Access New Zealand

Kate Valley Community Trust

The Trail Trust

NZTA – Especially Jonathan Kennett and Gerry Dance

Hurunui District Council

NZCT Inc

Rata Foundation

Lottery Hurunui Kaikoura Marlborough Earthquake Relief Fund

Ground Effect Cycle Clothing, 

MK Graphics – Margot Korhonen

GoldPine

Pukeko Junction Gallery

The Old Leithfield Hotel,

Bashers ITM

Amberley Hire

HEB Construction

Tiki Wine and Vineyards 

Lane Neave 

Harris Meats

Hyndman Publishing

Brew Moon Brewing Company

Pegasus Bay

G & S Gould

Greystone Wines

Glenmark Vicarage

Ataahua Wines

Festival of Cycling

Ground Effects

Liz and Paul Dickson – Pinot Noir

Helen McCartin and Tony Walker – Pinot Gris

Two Sisters Vineyard – Pinot Gris

Jane and Michael East – Muddy Water Wines – processing

Vinpro Ltd – bottling

New Zealand Carton Company – cases

Carter and Associates – bottles

Tasman Westside – labels

Guala Closures – screw caps

G & A Nelson – label design

Pickers and grape shovellers too numerous to mention individually

Waipara Springs Vineyard

The Old Glenmark Vicarage

Greystone Wines

Pilgrim Vineyard

Muddy Water Vineyard

Mountford Vineyard

Paul and Keith Stackhouse

Black Estate

Blacks Ave landowners

Buffy and Michael Eaton and family

John and Liz Richards

Ainger Tomlin Audit

Tiki Wine and Vineyards – gravel

Rangiora Hire – track building equipment

Steel and Tube – pipe for stock stops

MK Graphics – Margot Korhonen – sign and brochure design

Main Power

Mountford Vineyards

Greystone Vineyards

Paul and Keith Stackhouse

Waipara Cellars

HC Basher and Sons

Downer Construction

Scott Pearson

Andrew Couper

Jeff Dalley

Penelope Naish

Belinda Gould

Jamie Davidson

Neil Hyndman

Nick Gill

Tim Saunders

Sue Allen

Bruce Baxter

Jason Fletcher

Richard McCubbin

Ange Davidson