Chris's excellent Kiwi Adventures

Alright, so I finally managed to get some decent video captured from my helmet mounted camera. Nothing too thrilling here, just some good xc biking in Makara park. The videos are low quality, but you should get a sense of the terrain. Makara park has a lot of steep hills with native bush everywhere, very nice. Most of it isn't technically difficult at all, not rocks of roots to speak of. They make up for it with other things though, like crazy dropoffs, extremily slippery clay, and gale force winds that can blow you off the hill. This place is only a couple minutes away from Downtown Wellington, pretty amazing.

The Kennet brothers (legends in New Zealand) have been a pretty big force behind this park, and it shows. The condition of the trail is great, probably the best maintained trail network I've seen.

I'd put some thumbnails up, but blogspot isn't cooperating so here are the links:
Missing link 2 (4.3 megs)
Missing link 1 (22 megs)
Lower Ridgeline (31 megs)
The ridgeline is a difficult trail with sweet views, but it was just far too windy to try it that day.