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Otehake hut
Otehake Hut
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Standard Hut (DOC).
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Distance: less than 100m away
Otehake Hut. NZFS six bunker with porch. Built 1962/63.
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Otehake Hut
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Distance: less than 100m away
6 bunk NZFS style hut in the Otehake Valley, near the confluence of East & West Otehake Rivers, altitude 640m
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route from Otehake Track to Big Tops Hut via Koropuku Gorge
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Distance: 2.9km away
Untracked mission involving 1)crossing of Otehake River. Only able to be done at low flows. @) travel up Koropuku Gorge ...
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Ascent to Taruahuna Pass
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Distance: 3.7km away
Ascent to Taruahuna Pass from Otehake
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route from Otehake Track to Big Tops Hut via Koropuku Gorge
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Distance: 3.9km away
Untracked mission only able to be done when rivers at low flows (usually from December to April).
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Heading back to the tent on Tarn Col
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Distance: 4.0km away
Chuzzman aka chuzz returning to the tent after getting yha on the cliff-sides of Tarn Col.
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Herbfields above Worsley Pass
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Distance: 4.0km away
Herbfields above Worsley Pass
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Edwards River-Hawdon River
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3 days. Medium. One way.
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Distance: 4.2km away
See Hawdon River.
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trudge col
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Distance: 4.3km away
trudge col as seen from hawdon hut. left of rough peak, hawdon valley, arthurs pass national park.
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trudge col - from the north
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Distance: 4.3km away
Trudge stream drains the northern or Poulter side of Trudge Col. Crossing Trudge Col provides an interesting and challenging route ...
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Walker Pass Tarn
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Distance: 4.3km away
October 08,
Tarn on Walker Pass looking back towards the Hawdon Valley
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Back down the Poulter from Worsley Pass
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Distance: 4.4km away
Back down the Poulter from Worsley Pass
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Koropuku Hut
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Basic Hut/Bivvy (DOC). Capacity: 4.
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Distance: 5.4km away
Cult Hut! A NZFS 4 bunk beauty with silken wooden floors, no fireplace, tasteful furnishings and domestic accoutrements including the ...
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Mural gracing Koropuku hut
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Distance: 5.4km away
I snapped this to show my partner how cultured the inhabitants of back country huts can be. It is topical ...
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Otehake NZFS track up to Big Tops and down to Koropuku Hut
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1 day. Medium. One way.
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Distance: 5.5km away
Attractive old track from Otehake swingbridge to open tops. Recent extensions cut from gully to bypass waterfalls.
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The Recutting of the NZFS track to Worsley Pass
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Distance: 5.6km away
How we searched for, found, recut and marked this ancient track that had been lost for 25 years.
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Taramakau in the evening from Big Tops
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Distance: 5.6km away
then the rain came and washed it all away...and yet keeping low doesn't make no sense so little Eiffel stands ...
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Sidle Mt Valiant
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Distance: 5.8km away
A good direct route from the East Hawdon to the head of the Poulter at Trudge stream, Arthurs Pass National ...
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Veiw from campsite on Amber Col
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Distance: 5.9km away
This just shows the route up to Amber Col from the Otehaki river on the bottom right, Falling Mtn on ...
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Amber Col
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Distance: 5.9km away
September 2008
Stayed the previous night at the new Hawdon Hut, then made my way over Walker Pass and up the ...
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First Light Amber Col
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Distance: 5.9km away
5:30am God it's early, beautiful light, freezing cold, about an hour before total white-out.
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Worsley Biv
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Basic Hut/Bivvy (DOC). Capacity: 3.
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Distance: 6.0km away
Recently renovated (thanks CUTC with Kerry Clapham) with new ridgeline and skylight 'A' frame Maori bunk biv, with 3 foam ...
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NZFS track to Worsley Pass and deer trail route in Poulter Gorge
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Distance: 6.1km away
They were bitchin' in the hut book about this track in 1988. No work done on it for a long ...
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Otehake Hot Springs
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Distance: 6.1km away
Otehake hot springs. October 25th 2009.
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Hawdon Hut
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Serviced Hut (DOC). Capacity: 20.
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Distance: 6.2km away
A new hut opened in December 2007 after the previous hut was destroyed by fire June 2005.
An easy two to ...
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traverse of Mt Pfeifer
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Distance: 6.3km away
Traverse of ridge south-east of the summit in clag. Getting around the boulder was tricky and a bit exposed.
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'20 minutes' rock, Big Tops
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Distance: 6.4km away
'Lost track of my past/
On deception pass/
Dont know where im going/
Can't recall where ive been'
Deception Pass (Mudhoney)
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Mt Pfeifer etc from Kellys Hill July 2011
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Distance: 6.4km away
This photo was taken from near the broadcasting repeaters on top of Kellys Hill which is the hill immediately north ...
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Posing on Mt Pfeifer
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Distance: 6.4km away
This pic looks westward from Mt Pfeifer during autumn conditions prior to the May snowfalls.
Mt Pfeifer is an easy ...
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Lake Anti-Mavis, Tarn Pass in the distance
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Distance: 6.4km away
Lake Anti-Mavis, Tarn Pass in the distance
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The Descent Route of the NW Tributary of Discovery Stream
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Distance: 6.6km away
this route avoids waterfalls
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Descent Route from NW Tributary of Discovery Stream
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Distance: 6.6km away
This avoids waterfalls
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Poulter Bivvy
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Basic Hut/Bivvy (DOC). Capacity: 2.
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Distance: 6.8km away
A new 2 bunk D.O.C. bivvy located in the headwaters of the Poulter River. It has two sleeping platforms with ...
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birds-eye view
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Distance: 6.9km away
Looking from Waharoa Saddle down Pfeifer Stream & to Lake Kaurapataka
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Paratu Stream - Waharoa Saddle
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Distance: 7.0km away
The easiest route to Mt Pfeifer via an attractive bouldered stream and a magical saddle with flybys of kaka and ...
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Pfeiffer Biv
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Distance: 7.0km away
cosy,dinky even,modern 2 bunker with longdrop nearby.
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Otehake Hot Springs
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2 days. Easy/medium. Return via same track.
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Distance: 7.1km away
A popular weekend route to good hot pools.
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"Old" Pfeifer biv (Removed) Dec 2007
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Distance: 7.1km away
The old biv a few months before it was replaced.
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Edwards River-Otehake River
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4 days. Medium. One way.
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Distance: 7.1km away
Another north-south crossing of the park.
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Pfeifer biv & toilet April 2012
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Distance: 7.1km away
A new biv from early 2008 replacing an old biv that was about 20m to the south. (The sign on ...
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Pfeifer biv
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Basic Hut/Bivvy (DOC). Capacity: 2.
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Distance: 7.1km away
A new biv from early 2008 replacing an old biv that was about 20m to the south. (The sign on ...
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East Hawdon Bivouac
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Basic Hut/Bivvy (DOC). Capacity: 2.
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Distance: 7.1km away
A smart new hut on East Hawdon Stream. It was built 2007, replacing the original biv.
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East Hawdon Stream
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1 – 2 days. Easy/medium. Return via same track.
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Distance: 7.1km away
A short walk to a new biv located on a branch of the Hawdon River.
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East Hawdon Biv
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Distance: 7.1km away
The shiny new two-bunk hut in the frosty East Hawdon Valley.
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Mingha River-Deception River
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2 days. Medium. One way.
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Distance: 7.4km away
Goat Pass Track. Alpine track over a pass between two river valleys.
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route from Lake Mavis to Edwards Valley bypassing Taruahuna Pass
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Distance: 7.4km away
This route bypasses the pass with its tiresome talus travel for those who have experienced it several times already!
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Lake Mavis
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2 days. Medium. Return via same track.
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Distance: 7.4km away
A side trip off the popular Mingha-Deception route in Arthur's Pass.
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Descent from Pfeifer Biv into Pfeifer Creek via scree
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Distance: 7.4km away
Unmarked route exiting basin where biv lies, maintaining altitude to cross a spur after 20 minutes then travelling northeast along ...
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Discovery Stream/Sudden Valley traverse
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Distance: 7.9km away
2 day circuit from Hawden River, crossing mountain ridgetop after approach from Discovery Stream which features boulder-hopping and cascades.
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Grand Traverse of Mt Pfeifer
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Distance: 7.9km away
Traverse from Kaurapataka Saddle, over summit to Waharoa Saddle.
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Lake Kaurapataka
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Distance: 8.0km away
"It can be beautiful from a distance..." (Holcroft)
dis-tance - detente (softening)? de(to do) tente(softening) (or hardening? - dis tente)... ...
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Lake Kaurapataka.
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Distance: 8.1km away
This small lake next to the Taramakau Valley is a good camping spot.
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Lake Kaurapataka
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1 – 2 days. Easy. Return via same track.
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Distance: 8.1km away
Easy weekend trip to a pretty Arthur's Pass camping spot
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Goat Pass Hut
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Standard Hut (DOC). Capacity: 20.
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Distance: 8.1km away
Large hut on the popular Mingha-Deception route
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Poulter Hut
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Standard Hut (DOC). Capacity: 10.
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Distance: 8.1km away
Fairly new hut with 8 mattresses on 2 levels of Maori bunks. On flats by the Poulter River at the ...
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Poulter Hut
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Distance: 8.1km away
At the confluence of Poulter River and Minchin Stream, Arthurs Pass NP
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Upper Deception Hut
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Basic Hut/Bivvy (DOC). Capacity: 6.
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Distance: 8.2km away
Six bunk hut adjacent the popular Mingha-Deception route. It was built by the NZFS in 1962.
[A four bunker Lower Deception ...
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Upper Deception hut Feb 2009
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Distance: 8.2km away
A sound old NZFS hut in need of a bit of TLC. The scrub badly needed cutting back last time ...
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Hawdon Valley - Discovery Flat
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Distance: 9.0km away
View looking to the south across the Hawdon Valley at Discovery Flat. Taken from the track up from the Hawdon ...
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Hawdon River
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2 days. Easy. Return via same track.
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Distance: 9.0km away
Easy travel up a wide river valley.
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Penny Pass
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3 – 4 days. Medium. Loop track.
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Distance: 9.3km away
3 day trip from upper Poulter River over Penny Pass between Minchin and Thompson Streams.
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Mingha Biv
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Basic Hut/Bivvy (DOC). Capacity: 2.
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Distance: 9.8km away
Just south of Goat Pass. Hut has had a full refurbishment thanks to NZDA, Permolat and The Back Country Trust. ...
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Mingha Biv
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Distance: 9.8km away
The old and not in very good condition Mingha Biv
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