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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 ...
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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/
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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.
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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 ...
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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 ...
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