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Lou Sanson proposes charges for Great Walks
Kathryn Ryan has been covering this issue yesterday and today. Yesterday (Tuesday) she hosted an extensive interview on Conservation Boards and their role in the current situation. http://www.radionz.co.nz/national/programmes/ninetonoon/audio/201822035/national-parks-under-strain-from-growing-visitor-numbers Right now she's talking ... -
Feral activists are worse than pest 1080 fights
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Otago man offering job for possumer: no whingers
john campbell interviewing the interview poster, Duane https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=271&v=i4qx39B0zE4 -
Cascade - Ngapuketurua
thanks Ruahine. Taupo tramper has supplied info on water source and track was ok a year ago. We are going out (or in depending on Wx) via Kiko Road. -
Bids, bivs, huts and bogs
Interesting how it used to be that tramping clubs, hunters etc. built and maintained the huts. Then a time when DOC virtually did it all, and even stopped others from ... -
change to NGOs' environment legal fund
Does anyone know which NGOs have been accessing this legal aid in recent years? -
Emergency calls via cell phone
Well cellphones certainly good, but they are not 100% reliable as we all know. There was some lost hunters here in the kaimais who were rescued last year after making a ... -
Hunter falls to his death on West Coast
Hunter vs tramper vs tourist is relevent in these stories. They pursue different goals, start with different preconceptions of where they'll go and what they'll do, and thus encounter different ... -
Wellington tramping clubs
Most clubs happily acept out of towners. If nothing else it gives an accommodation option on the way there. As for committing 3 weeks early give a thought to the ... -
Found Gas Cooker
Gidday Glennj, We were thinking the same, I'm a teacher and there is no way I'd leave school gear in a hut. Too expensive on limited budget to take a risk... ... -
Skeletal remains found in the Tararua
probably not a tramper. gang related http://www.stuff.co.nz/manawatu-standard/news/85201396/police-cordon-set-up-near-shannon-with-forensics-teams-present -
Stewart Island North West Circuit with Children?
@Ian_H; the bivvy is a classic hunters biv made from framing from salvaged 4 x 2's and planks from the beach plus fishing nets and overlain with blue tarps in ... -
Hut Fees
Doc haven unusual way of accounting for things which is a large part of why they want rid of huts and are not always that keen on major renovations. Everything ... -
Commercial Guiding without Permit/Concession
That sounds like all questions answered all boxes either ticked or ready to be ticked when the need arises. So often a first look doesnt reveal the true complete picture. Web based ... -
Campfire Kiwi Outdoorsman Cops DOC Vendetta
The Outdoors Party spammed me with their newsletter a few weeks ago. I'm not sure how I got on their mailing list and there was no obvious way advised for ... -
Landsboro rescue
So he was heading up Mt Mongomerie from Spence Glacier - presumably heading for Fyfe Pass and onto the Mueller. He'd already crossed from the Karangarua into the Landsboro - ... -
Bibles in Huts
If ISIS militants got into our bush then they would be misplaced forever. Either that or hung by the bush lawyer. -
How old is old enough
"He had a ball hunting for yeti though has yet to see one." Did he check under all the rocks? -
Discretion about family Dogs in Hut's
Well this is pertinent and quite interesting: http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-09-30/mans-friendship-with-dogs-may-be-genetic,-new-study-suggests/7893206 -
anyone heard anything of mr 900huts?
after getting through most of the NI ranges, except Kaweka and Te urewera (I think), he was pretty much on schedule then his knees packed, as I recall I don't think he ... -
Making the best judgments on PLB activation
To answer the original question. If you know there is SAR looking for you and you can hear the rescue helicopters overhead. You MUST set off that beacon, if you ... -
Snorers
I am a snorer. Have always been, no matter how fit/unfit I am at any given time. I have had a $3000 mouthguard made. Didn't work. I have had a septoplasty ... -
hillary
I found the Antarctic episode very interesting. I assume the nuances of the Fuchs/Hillary dynamics were accurately presented although that is rare these days when 'ratings' drive everything we see. -
Campfires
Ah yeah.... Aerosols and fire mix a little too well.... :D But absolutely right. Ask any kid the highlight of being in the outdoors, and I reckon the vast majority of ... -
Things you don't want to lose.....
About 10 grand I reckon :-)
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