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Pimelea near Toka

Toka Biv

Toka Biv

Toka Biv (2 bunk, tarn water) is a small dog-box bivvy on a small plateau on the Pohongina Valley side ...   More ▶︎
Toka Biv

Toka Biv

Toka Biv in the Ruahine Range Between Toka and Tunopo. Used to be called Ngamoko Biv. It sits on a ...   More ▶︎
Toka Biv

Toka Biv

Toka Biv in the Ruahine Range Between Toka and Tunopo. Used to be called Ngamoko Biv. It sits on a ...   More ▶︎
Pohongina River at Leon Kinvig hut

Pohongina River at Leon Kinvig hut

Grassy faces and scattered beech predominate on the Pohongina valleysides above Leon Kinvig   More ▶︎
Leon Kinvig Hut

Leon Kinvig Hut

A tidy 8-bunk hut in the mid-reaches of the Pohongina Valley. Tracks climb both ranges to the east and west, ...   More ▶︎
Leon Kinvig Hut

Leon Kinvig Hut

Leon Kinvig Hut sleeps 8 on 2 platforms. There's a good open fire, plenty of wood around, and water from ...   More ▶︎
Leon Kinvig Hut

Leon Kinvig Hut

Leon Kinvig Hut is in the middle reaches of the Pohangina River in the Ruahines and can be reached from ...   More ▶︎

Walking the length of the Ruahines

A 10+ day trip down to backbone of the Ruahine Range from Wharite (Palmerston Sth) to the Napier Taihape (Gentle ...   More ▶︎
Top Gorge Hut

Top Gorge Hut

Top Gorge Hut (2 bunks, 3 mattresses, open fire with ample firewood available, river water) is a small, basic hut ...   More ▶︎
Top Gorge hut

Top Gorge hut

Top Gorge Hut in the head waters of the Pohangina River in the Ruahines. Can be reached from Longview Hut, ...   More ▶︎
Alice Nash Memorial Lodge

Alice Nash Memorial Lodge

NZ Deer stalkers hut Ruahine forest park 30 mins from the road end popular with families its more like a ...   More ▶︎
Alice Nash Memorial Heritage Lodge

Alice Nash Memorial Heritage Lodge

Half an hour from the road end, this is a well appointed sort of place, thanks to NZDA   More ▶︎
Bridge on the way

Bridge on the way

About half way?!   More ▶︎
Alice Nash

Alice Nash

Memorial Lodge   More ▶︎
On the deck

On the deck

chillaxing!   More ▶︎
Fireplace and Bunks

Fireplace and Bunks

in the Hut, got absolutely boiling in there with that fire!   More ▶︎
Inside

Inside

the Hut   More ▶︎
Bridge again

Bridge again

on way to Alice Nash/Heritage Lodge   More ▶︎
Bridge to Heritage Lodge

Bridge to Heritage Lodge

Wooden arched bridge on the track to Heritage, Ruahines   More ▶︎
Longview Makaretu Awatere Circuit

Longview Makaretu Awatere Circuit

2 Day circuit in the Ruahine Forrest park from Moorcock Saddle 3 huts some tops bush and river travel.   More ▶︎
Rangiwahia Triangle Iron gate Alice Nash Memorial

Rangiwahia Triangle Iron gate Alice Nash Memorial

Typical Ruahine weekend tramp 4 huts, open tops,river travel and some great bush.   More ▶︎
Umutoi ferns snow

Umutoi ferns snow

Snow on tree ferns at Umutoi stream on the track to Alice Nash Heritage Lodge. May 2009.   More ▶︎
Umutoi bridge snow

Umutoi bridge snow

Snow on the track to Alice Nash Heritage Lodge, at the bridge over Umutoi stream. May 2009.   More ▶︎
Makaretu

Makaretu

8 Bunk hut Southern branch Makaretuu river. Visit as part of a circuit from moorcock saddle including Longview and Awatere ...   More ▶︎
Makaretu Hut

Makaretu Hut

8 bunk hut on the southern branch of the Makaretu river   More ▶︎

Bridge to Heritage Lodge

Wooden arched bridge on the track to Heritage, Ruahines   More ▶︎
Ngamoko Hut

Ngamoko Hut

A pleasant 6-bunk hut looking across the mid reaches of the Pohongina to a large grassy slip. An hour or ...   More ▶︎
Ngamoko Hut

Ngamoko Hut

Ngamoko Hut (6 bunks, stove, river water) is a pleasent hut located in scrub on the western bank of the ...   More ▶︎
Rangiwahia Triangle Iron gate Alice Nash Memorial

Rangiwahia Triangle Iron gate Alice Nash Memorial

Typical Ruahine weekend tramp 4 huts, open tops,river travel and some great bush.   More ▶︎
Longview Howletts Daphne Circuit

Longview Howletts Daphne Circuit

A circuit in the Ruahines taking in three well equiped huts   More ▶︎
Great inventions

Great inventions

I wouldnt be without my walking pole anymore   More ▶︎
Duck Pond Hut

Duck Pond Hut

A 2-bunk hut on private land, just outside the Ruahine forest park. This hut lies in the upper reaches of ...   More ▶︎
Duck Pond Hut

Duck Pond Hut

A private 2-bunk hut, tucked into the headwaters of the Ngamoko catchment in the Ruahines.   More ▶︎
Longview Howletts Daphne Circuit

Longview Howletts Daphne Circuit

A circuit in the Ruahines taking in three well equiped huts   More ▶︎
Longview hut

Longview hut

Great view on a clear day   More ▶︎
Longview Hut

Longview Hut

Longview hut (12 bed platforms, firewood, tank water,non-flush toilet) provided a view of nothing but mist on the occasion I ...   More ▶︎
Walking the length of the Ruahines

Walking the length of the Ruahines

This article documents my recollections of the Ruahine setion (Wharite to Kuripapango) of a walk from Wharite near Palmerston North ...   More ▶︎
Longview Hut

Longview Hut

Longview Hut (Ruahine Range)   More ▶︎
Longview track

Longview track

Looking out towards napier/coast around about 1280 metres asl along the daphne-longview track just before the last climb to the ...   More ▶︎
Trampers on route to Longview Hut

Trampers on route to Longview Hut

Photo is taken just out of the bush from the daphne hut track,Was a very windy day though. Snow up ...   More ▶︎
View from longview hut-or lack of

View from longview hut-or lack of

View from the hut with about50-150m visibility, really bad weather for tramping but still enjoyable   More ▶︎
Longview Track

Longview Track

Very exposed track that can become dangerous, at the very least, unpleasant due to high winds.   More ▶︎
Longview Track

Longview Track

Very exposed track that can become dangerous, at the very least, unpleasant due to high winds.   More ▶︎
Longview Pano

Longview Pano

Panorama of Central Hawke's Bay from Longview Hut.   More ▶︎

Piripiri Hut

Piripiri Hut is a comfortably spacious 2-bunk hut in the western Ruahine Ranges. Water is from a small creek 20m ...   More ▶︎
Iron Gate Hut

Iron Gate Hut

Iron Gate Hut February 2011   More ▶︎
Iron Gate Hut

Iron Gate Hut

Iron Gate Hut on the Oroua River western Ruahines   More ▶︎
Iron Gate Hut

Iron Gate Hut

A damp morning at Iron Gate Hut in the Western Ruahine Ranges.   More ▶︎
Iron Gate Hut

Iron Gate Hut

Iron Gate Hut (sleeps 8, stove, stream water) sits on the beech-forested banks of the Oroua River. It's a comfortable ...   More ▶︎
Awatere hut

Awatere hut

North branch of the makaretu river   More ▶︎
Awatere Hut

Awatere Hut

Nice 3 bunk hutin the ruahines built in 1957, nice ridge travel over from Kashmir rd. Mainly used by hunters. Also 10 ...   More ▶︎
Happy Daze Hut

Happy Daze Hut

Small, with ample camping. Seems to be some dispute over naming, with Happi Daze being (somewhat forcefully) pushed by some.   More ▶︎
Long view to Howletts

Long view to Howletts

Started out a beautiful day but rapidly closed in Looking North towards the Daphne Howletts turn off   More ▶︎
Longview to Howletts

Longview to Howletts

Moments before the clag decended the rest of the weekend was wet and misty   More ▶︎
Mid Pohangina Hut

Mid Pohangina Hut

Mid Pohangina Hut sits on a pleasant grassy flat just above the Pohangina River north of its confluence with Cattle ...   More ▶︎
Southern Crossing of the Ruahines

Southern Crossing of the Ruahines

A track and river route crossing of the Lower Ruahine Forest park   More ▶︎
Mid Pohangina Hut

Mid Pohangina Hut

8 bunk hut open fire   More ▶︎
Mid Pohangina Hut 15 minutes

Mid Pohangina Hut 15 minutes

After wandering down the river you arrive cold and wet (on an off day) at this sign which points at ...   More ▶︎
Cattle Creek Hut

Cattle Creek Hut

A tidy 8 bunk platform style hut fully resplendent in its updated NZFS orange colour scheme.   More ▶︎
Upper Pohangina

Upper Pohangina

River route to Mid Pohangina Hut from Cattle creek   More ▶︎
Pohangina crossing

Pohangina crossing

Swing bridge below Mid Pohangina hut and the start of the ubiquitous sidle track. Why does the term sidle always ...   More ▶︎
Pohangina scramble

Pohangina scramble

Not deep enough to swim but small enough to to give you the idea you can avoid getting wet feet. ...   More ▶︎
Pohangina River

Pohangina River

mid way through the small Pohangina gorge   More ▶︎
Cattle Creek Hut

Cattle Creek Hut

Cattle Creek hut in the southern Ruahine Range   More ▶︎
Cattle Creek Hut

Cattle Creek Hut

On river flats in the upper reaches of Cattle Creek lies Cattle Creek Hut (6 beds, wood-burning stove, firewood available ...   More ▶︎
Cattle Creek Hut

Cattle Creek Hut

A tidy 8 bunk platform style hut resplendent in forest service orange.   More ▶︎
Triangle Hut

Triangle Hut

Triangle Hut in The Western Ruahine Range. can be reached via Rangiwahia Hut and over the tops. River route downstream ...   More ▶︎
Triangle Hut

Triangle Hut

6 bunk hut situated on a bench above the river very pleasant   More ▶︎
Triangle Hut

Triangle Hut

6 bunk hut in the Oroua river catchment. On a raised terrace above the river. Water from the river, pot ...   More ▶︎
A Freezing River Trip in Winter

A Freezing River Trip in Winter

A winters's river trip in the Ruahines - attempting to keep the circulation going!   More ▶︎
Cordyline Banksii ?

Cordyline Banksii ?

In Damp bush there where a couple of impressive specimens is the discription right   More ▶︎
Maungahuia

Maungahuia

Frozen tarn and Maungahuia (1583m), above Rangiwahia Hut. Part of the Rangi - Deadmans Ridge Circuit. July 2012   More ▶︎
The route from Longview Hut to Howletts Hut

The route from Longview Hut to Howletts Hut

This photo is taken from Daphne Ridge on the way to Howletts Hut. Longview is behind the higest point on ...   More ▶︎