The campfire

Boundary Creek hut?

Thanks for the link Wayno. Will enjoy reading. Phil

looks like its their wheeled travel packs that shouldnt be immersed in water https://www.osprey.com/us/en/fitting-learning/pack-care

Maybe we could put the idea out there that if you've got a loved one tramping, it would make sense for the whanau to club together and buy said loved one a PLB for a ...

Small correction... From the Office of the Parliamentary Commissioner for the Environment, which is different from the Ministry and much smaller. It's the office responsible for investigating and independently evaluating the government's environme...

first time i even came close to being lost i was pretty young.. still at primary school or intermediate was on a camp and taking a walk to a waterfall i'd done before... came to a ...

...but the DOC track positions, in the DOC web site or in Koordinates web site, are good enough for trip planning purposes.... just not for navigation. Unfortunately LINZ take DOC track positions as authoritative, so we ...

I'm loving this - have found 45 bears and friends out of 45 clues so far! :)

We're finding it hard to get to stay in some huts these days anyway. We have to wait for deep rivers or deep snow sometimes to get a bunk in a hut. Pity the cold ...

I used to give a mate at work a hard time about how he was always going in to Black Hill Hut but then we started going there a lot too. That walk in along ...

when the actor took a big slide, it looked like he was holding onto something between his legs that you couldnt see, like something underneath him to slide better on... but its TV, take it with ...

And partly due to huddling behaviour. The link cites that ""None of the temperatures in badly affected cities dipped below 0C (32F)during the height of the epidemic, which may suggest a lower threshold beyond ...

Looks like mainly wilding pine work. Which is good & worthwhile. But note that as pine control is funded through MPI as part of their biosecurity responsabilities - it's not necessarily a boost to DOC's ...

Should enter some of those pics in the photo competition page

he didnt know that metal affects compasses? lucky it hasnt happened to him earlier....

most of the infectioned in NZ are under 65 yo, most who die are over 65.

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theres a lot of nice people to mix with on the great walks. they are all willing to pay top dollar to get a bunk, they aren't looking to dodge paying their fees , they've ...

Maybe a hammock would be the go? Have to say I could always find a place to put up a tent in in Fiordland although there was only one site that was actually dead level ...

Pro-active It is a nice way to plan your trip. I also do the same thing when I travel to go somewhere for an occasion.

Give them a big ladder so they can trek to the Sea Of Tranquility

Hello people. I have been away for a while and I would love to share with you my latest experience. I recently came back from Nepal where I spent one month. It was a great experience tramping around ...

I can remember when those benches were galvanized iron often minus the galvanizing. If the bugs didnt get you the heavy metal poisoning certainly would

> the stats are deceptive Yup, it should be weighted by how many people use the track a year. I last did the Tongariro Crossing with 2 buses full of kids. Other buses were in the carpark.

Tramper Joe I've only been up on Mt Alexander not Mt Howe but I understand the traverse you are asking about is doable. There is some steep and eroding stuff and you may well have ...