Historic benched Waiuta-Big River Track. Photo: Dave Mitchell

For the love of gold

July 2020

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Dave Mitchell visits Reefton where he rides an old gold trail on the Waiuta to Big River Track

We can thank New Zealand’s early gold miners for many of the best mountain bike tracks we ride today. Nowhere is this more apparent than on the South Island’s West Coast, and no town is better endowed with historic mining relics, tracks and trails than Reefton. Reefton began life in 1870 on the opposite bank […]
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