Trip reports
Haupiri Range Traverse, Kahurangi
Seldom-visited 50km off-track route up Parapara Peak and over the Haupiri Range to Boulder Lake.
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Freyberg Range, Pell Stream
A 3 day trip, climbing up onto the range to go over Mt Mueller and camp. Followed by a descent to the stream, a stay at the hut and then down the track to Marble Hill.
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Day trip to Kahikatea Lodge
A wee excursion to visit the lodge via a loop.
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Staircase Hut in the Waianakarua Scenic Reserve
A 2 day visit to an old private hut belonging to and maintained by the Palmerston Branch of the NZDA.
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Penk Hut from Lake Alexander and Ferny Gair
A very pleasant day trip to the seldom-visited Penk Hut for lunch from the attractive setting of Lake Alexander Hut.
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In and Out of the Jollie River
An easy 3 day sojourn up the Jollie to bag 2 huts.
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Kowhai-Hapuku Circuit over Mt Fyffe
A 3 day circuit starting and finishing at the Mt Fyffe carpark.
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4 day circuit taking in Snowy Gorge, Maitland and Hideaway Huts
Circuit via valleys north of the Ahuriri River visiting 3 attractive historical huts.
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Circuit from Stanley Vale to Glenrae Saddle/Lake Hill/Lake Guyon
A day's tramping to an seldom visited picturesque area near the St James Cycleway.
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Casey/Castle Hill Return
A weekend trip with the Peninsula Tramping Club where we ascended to Castle Hill from the Surprise/Casey Stream junction and camped by the tarns under the summit of Castle Hill.
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Three passes + Pope's pass
Variant to standard three passes from Klondyke corner back to SH73 via the Taipo. Watch out for the lower Julia creek!
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Southern Circuit Stewart Island
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4 Day Comyns, Cookies Huts circuit
Easter trip in 2018, involving a descent of the Nth Ashburton to Cookies Point and the hut and then north along the Turton Tops back to A-Frame Hut.
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Double Crossing of the Wild Man Brothers Range
A 3 day trip going from the head of the Cameron River in the Hakatere over the above range to the headwaters of the South Ashburton River and then back over to the roadend via a low saddle on the ...
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Mt Enys - Finally!
An account of our 4 attempts to climb Mt Enys directly via Deadman Spur.
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Annavale Circuit from Benmore Hut
A new track enabling a circuit as a day trip or an easy weekend trip. Plenty of tracks to explore around the hut too.
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Gunsight Pass
With a couple of spare days in South Canterbury the forecast gale nor'westerlies and heavy rain on the main divide did not bode well. We settled on the Temple Valley as a good overnight tramping option, being east enough to ...
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An Unexpected Ascent of Mt Taylor
A day trip to climb the highest peak in the Canterbury foothills.
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Croisilles Hill, Marborough Sounds
A day trip for our top of the topo's project from Okiwi Bay.
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Double Crossing of Mt Thomas into the Pinchgut Hut
Weekend trip in recent snow with the Okuku River running too high for people to cross it and stay at Pinchgut Hut. So guaranteed bunk space.
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First NZ tramps report
Longtime lurker from Qld. Just finished my first tramps. Initial track was the Routeburn but unable to continue past Harris saddle owing to the excess snow on the track and avalanche warnings. Warden advised that possibility of getting through day ...
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To Puketeraki Biv and back (again on Labour Weekend) 2018
3 day return trip up to Black Hill hut, down to Salmon Ck Biv then over to Puketeraki Biv via a low saddle upstream and a very unpleasant sidle through beech regen that wasn't there 17 years ago!
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Hawea Solitude
Who would have thought you could have huts to yourself on a long weekend within an hour’s drive of one of New Zealand’s most outdoorsy towns!
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Mt Fyffe, Hapuku, Kowhai Circuit
4 day Easter circuit to check out old haunts and the new lake formed in the Hapuku Valley by the Kaikoura earthquake of Nov, 2016
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Hut bagging Stony Stream Biv
A weekend trip into the Hamner Conservation Area to visit a wee biv in good condition. A much appreciated track to the biv from the Edwards River,has recently been completed, making this a much more pleasant trip.
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Boscawen Saddle, Rough Creek route
A description of a weekend tramp up the Nina River, over Boscawen Saddle, sidling to Robinson Saddle, down one branch of the Blue Grey to L. Christobel Hut, then the next day up over the Lewis Tops and down Rough ...
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Not The Routeburn
A six-passes trip through the Humboldt Mountains from Glenorchy to the Milford Road.
Six untracked rocky passes. Seven little-visited catchments. The dying remnants of glaciation in the range.
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Magdalen Hut to Jervois Hut via the Opera Range and return
4 day circuit on St James Conservation Area.
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Pirongia Perambulation
A weekend excursion around Tahuanui & Bell Tracks on Mt Pirongia.
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Exploring the South Opuha
A new trip with a new hut to bag in a hunter's paradise north of Fairlie.
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