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Makawakawa Stream below Diggers Hut

Diggers Hut

Diggers Hut

Diggers Hut has been washed away. Diggers Hut in the Ruahines. A spacious 4-bunk hut at the back of a flat ...   More ▶︎
Diggers Hut

Diggers Hut

Diggers Hut in the Ruahines. A spacious 4-bunk hut at the back of a flat of waist-high grass in the ...   More ▶︎
Forks Hut, Diggers Hut and Te Ekaou Hut access

Forks Hut, Diggers Hut and Te Ekaou Hut access

Several public and private access routes into these huts in the southern Ruahines and suggested round and though trips.   More ▶︎
Forks Hut (Ruahine Ranges)

Forks Hut (Ruahine Ranges)

Forks Hut in the southern Ruahines. A riverside hut at the base of a steep gorge on the southern fork ...   More ▶︎
Forks Hut (Ruahine)

Forks Hut (Ruahine)

A 6 bunker in regenrating bush in the Southern Ruahines. Wood burner and stream water. Not so widely visited - ...   More ▶︎
River travel above Forks Hut

River travel above Forks Hut

River travel above Forks Hut in the Ruahines. The northern fork of the creek from the hut, combined with a ...   More ▶︎
Track from Takapari Rd down to Diggers Hut

Track from Takapari Rd down to Diggers Hut

Track from Takapari Rd down to Diggers Hut, southern Ruahines. About 5km down this broad but sometimes boggy track, then ...   More ▶︎
Te Ekaou Hut

Te Ekaou Hut

Te Ekaou Hut in the southern Ruahines. One of few surviving bushedge huts in the Ruahines. Accessed across private land, ...   More ▶︎
Te Ekaou Hut

Te Ekaou Hut

Te Ekaou Hut in the southern Ruahines - one of few surviving bushedge huts in the Ruahines. Accessed across private ...   More ▶︎
Ferns

Ferns

Fern covered ridge on way to Te Ekaou Hut   More ▶︎
Track from Takapari Rd to Forks Hut

Track from Takapari Rd to Forks Hut

Cut track from leatherwood and scrub from Takapari Roadend down the ridge to the north of Forks Hut. Track starts ...   More ▶︎
Leatherleaf expanses of the Southern Ruahines

Leatherleaf expanses of the Southern Ruahines

Leatherleaf expanses of the Southern Ruahines from Takapari Road   More ▶︎
Te Ekaou Stream

Te Ekaou Stream

Te Ekaou Stream - marginal strip access to Te Ekaou Hut and Forks Hut in the southern Ruahines   More ▶︎
Takapari A Frame Hut / Travers Hut / Traverse Hut (Ruahine)

Takapari A Frame Hut / Travers Hut / Traverse Hut (Ruahine)

Travers (6 bunks, no matresses) is a very basic A-frame hut on the Takapari Road in the Southern Ruahines. There's ...   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 ▶︎
Southern Crossing of the Ruahines

Southern Crossing of the Ruahines

A track and river route crossing of the Lower Ruahine Forest park   More ▶︎
Looking down onto Cattle Creek Hut from ridge

Looking down onto Cattle Creek Hut from ridge

Looking down onto the hut from the ridge just above it, quite a steep drop strait down to hut, easier ...   More ▶︎
A-Frame hut (Traverse hut)

A-Frame hut (Traverse hut)

Very basic htu, was a very welcome sight to see takapari road after a pretty much 2 and a half ...   More ▶︎
Stanfield Hut

Stanfield Hut

nice 2 and a half hour walk via holmes ridge, Perfect for a little day trip or for a 1st ...   More ▶︎
A-Frame track looking down onto holmes ridge

A-Frame track looking down onto holmes ridge

Steady climb for about 2 and a half hours, views definitly paid off, weather isnt to good to be on ...   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 ▶︎
Standfield Hut

Standfield Hut

Standfield Hut   More ▶︎
Eastern Ruahine bush

Eastern Ruahine bush

(Kumeti to Mangapuaka)   More ▶︎
Standfield Hut

Standfield Hut

Standfield (Stanfield) Hut (6 bunks, woodburing stove, tank water, firewood available in locality) is a comfortable riverside hut on the ...   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 ▶︎
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 ▶︎

Piripiri Hut

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

Mid Pohangina Hut

8 bunk hut open fire   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 ▶︎
Cattle Creek Hut

Cattle Creek Hut

A tidy 8 bunk platform style hut fully resplendent in its updated NZFS orange colour scheme.   More ▶︎
Cattle Creek Hut

Cattle Creek Hut

A tidy 8 bunk platform style hut resplendent in forest service orange.   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 ▶︎
Pohangina River

Pohangina River

mid way through the small Pohangina gorge   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 ▶︎
Upper Pohangina

Upper Pohangina

River route to Mid Pohangina Hut from Cattle creek   More ▶︎