Just about at Kime hut, perfect calm conditions and moonlight on the snow meant we didn't even need our torches!

New South Ohau hut.  Built just next door to the old hut site, but hopefully far enough along to avoid the slip.  It is nice and sunny and a pleasant enough hut in a scummy little catchment. Sleeps: 12 or so on bench bunks. Heating: A potbelly Camping: A little bit on the river terrace below the hut (though it is quite gravelly from ...

Aokaparangi Biv.  Situated at the bushedge on the eastern side of Aokaparangi Sleeps: 2 on comfortable wooden bunks, and there is comfortable room for 2 on the floor. Heating: None, but it is double glazed. Camping: Some tops camping nearby (lots of long tussock).

This weekend we have the first regular weekend tramp of the 2009 calendar. Its a trip to check out the recent work done on one of the older huts in the Tararua ranges, Dorset Ridge hut, a standard forest service hut just off the tops on Dorset Ridge. To get there involves about an 800m-1000m climb above the bushline and along the tops for a ...

For all those that missed the information about the Freshers trip to Totara Flats this weekend here's the essentials. Just remember that if you want to come on this trip and haven't signed up that you need to contact me ASAP so that I can put you in a group and confirm numbers.  We will be walking into Totara Flats camping at the ...

  What better way to spend Valentines day than with a couple of good mates thrashing yourself half to death along the Tararua tops.  That’s what Kieran, Ben and I thought anyway.   After 4hrs sleep at Putara (thanks to Guy for camping with us and taking that gear back to Wellington!) we were away.  Having done a previous PK ...