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  • MidWinter tramping Arthur’s Pass - 7th-15th July 2012

    MidWinter tramping Arthur’s Pass 7th – 15th July 2012   Saturday - 7th July Finally holiday and then you decide to wake up at 5am after only 2 or 3 hours of sleep because Friday the 6th was the last night your flatmate could go party before going over seas…   I had a nice walk to the ferry trying to convince myself that I had not ...
    Posted to Trip Reports (Forum) by Pia on August 21, 2012
  • gas cooking to be removed in Mitre Flats, Totara Flats and Tutuwai Huts

    Hi there! Alerted by a stuff.co.nz article I had a look to the DOC website: http://www.doc.govt.nz/parks-and-recreation/plan-and-prepare/alerts/wairarapa/ ---- Mitre Flats, Totara Flats and Tutuwai Huts - Gas cooking facility removal. Due to health and safety and economic reasons, the gas facilities at these huts will ...
    Posted to Other (Forum) by achim on July 18, 2012
  • The nine passes trip

    Feb 07 Calling in at tramping mission control in Kumara, Quentin mentioned that he was doing a trip with Andrew McCrorie an ex HVTC member now living in the UK and asked if Hannah and I wanted to come.  Their plan was to cross from the Styx to the Waimakariri so Andrew could get the bus back to Christchurch and fly home.  A three passes ...
    Posted to Trip Reports (Forum) by Richard on August 13, 2007
  • Pureora Traverse

    The King Country is renowned for many things.  Colin Meads, Jim Bolger, Colin Meads, umm, ....., well, uh, Coli.....  OK it's not renowned for many things and one of the many things it is not renowned for is tramping.  It is however close to Hamilton, so at Queens Birthday Alistair and Eric made the trip south and Graham and I ...
    Posted to Trip Reports (Forum) by Richard on August 12, 2007
  • The baggers dozen

    Late February saw Quentin and I roll into the Matakitaki valley looking to check out the lesser visited parts of Nelson Lakes National Park.  We stayed the night at the Nelson College facility just up the road from Mt Ella station.  It was locked but the big verandahs make for a good place to stay if you're down that way.  There ...
    Posted to Trip Reports (Forum) by Richard on August 12, 2007
  • Re: Hat bagging at a new low

    No hats were bagged, or bugged for that matter. But, hat bugging sounds like a new hobby I could take up. Also, my the next hut bag mission is Centennial Hut on the Franz neve (believe it or not) - pretty much the other end of the bagging spectrum! I'll try and get a photo to prove it, because no one will believe me. 
    Posted to Trip Reports (Forum) by Quentin on March 20, 2007
  • Hat bagging at a new low

    My sister-in-law was working in Ahaura today so I thought I'd catch a free ride and go and bag Jim's Flat Hut. Well, some hut bags are just not worth it. Jim's flat is about 20km up the Ahaura-Kopara road (10km sealed, 10km unsealed), then a few km down a metalled vehicle track. Beside the hut is a NIWA/Council automatic hydrometer  ...
    Posted to Trip Reports (Forum) by Quentin on March 20, 2007
  • Powell - Jumbo Loop

    Powell-Jumbo Loop   Joe Prebble (scribe)  Ben Clark, Richard Davies   A fairly light sleep in Powell Hut on Friday night, as a group from the Wainui Christian College shared bad jokes and saliva into the night. Not helped much by their teacher, who took a Ned Flanders approach to discipline, attempting to pull them into ...
    Posted to Trip Reports (Forum) by Hannah on October 20, 2006
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