Adventure Guide Track Scouts
For the first 15 years, all the routes on Adventure Guide were personally visited, photographed, and documented by founder Josh Martin. This resulted in Adventure Guide becoming the largest and most trusted resource for adventurers looking for the best South Island routes. However, with Adventure Guide growing so large, a new approach had to be adopted to ensure it could continue providing the most accurate and up-to-date information—for both the North Island and South Island. Enter the Track Scouts…
Track Scouts are adventurers with a sound knowledge of New Zealand's track network, who enjoy sharing their knowledge with fellow adventurers through the Adventure Guide platform. Track Scouts play a valuable role in ensuring fellow adventurers have the most up-to-date route planning information, and navigation app.
Josh Martin – South Island (West)
Josh Martin is the founder of Adventure Guide and has dedicated over 17 years to logging over 2,000 South Island routes, huts, campsites and AdventureTokens in the South Island. Josh is now a Track Scout for the South Island’s West Coast territory. He enjoys unearthing all the hidden trails, and ensuring the West Coast has the most up-to-date information.
Nathan Gardiner – South Island (East)
Nathan is a Canterbury-based adventure rider passionate about exploring the South Island’s back country. Through his YouTube channel Kiwi on a Bike, he shares remote trails, local insights, and some stunning scenery that NZ has to offer. As a Track Scout, he brings strong planning skills, community connections, and a love for helping others discover New Zealand’s best adventure riding.
Ian Ganderton – North Island (Centre)
Ian Ganderton is a passionate outdoorsman, and outdoor educator, who thrives on anything adventure related. Ian regularly explores tracks local to his area, and afar. He manages a North Island adventure riding group and enjoys sharing track info with fellow adventurers.
Ross Bowden – North Island (Centre)
Ross is a keen adventure rider. While he resides in the North Island and has a superb knowledge of the North Island back roads, he also heads to the South Island each year to explore new tracks. Ross has been generously sharing route information to Adventure Guide long before the Track Scouts came about. His contributions have helped numerous adventure riders plan great trips - both local Kiwi riders, and overseas riders.
Blake Jones – North Island (South)
When Blake isn’t out bush working as a professional forester, he’s out twisting throttle on his orange machines. He rides for his own enjoyment, and also for track research on behalf of several organizations that run North Island adventure rallies. He is well known as one of the go-to guys in the lower North Island for finding and organising access to unknown routes and providing sweep rider services.
Roman Ammann – South Island (East)
Roman is a keen adventure rider now based in Christchurch, after a few years overseas riding in Australia and the US. He shares his adventure rides on his YouTube channel "More Keen than Capable" and is always keen to meet up for a ride. He can often be found exploring and asking the age-old question: "What's down this track”?
Chris Mckinnon – North Island (Centre)
Chris, or "Topher" is Hamilton based and has been riding motorbikes for over half a century, having learned to ride on a farm bike. Chris gravitates towards adventure and dual-sport bikes, and has ridden extensively around the North Island. Over the years, Chris has also spent many weeks on two wheels exploring the South Island.
Allan Loveday – South Island (East)
Allan is a South Canterbury based 4wd ‘overlander’ who likes to explore the backroads and remote places of the South Island. Ready to give almost anything a go, he’s explored some pretty amazing parts of our country in his trusty 80 Series Land Cruiser. Allan’s track knowledge mixed with his keenness to share routes with fellow adventurers, makes him a valued part of the Track Scout team.
Track Scout Territories
Below is the Track Scout territory map. If you have excellent knowledge of the tracks in one of the territories below and are interested in becoming a Track Scout, shoot us an email here.
