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Minchin Bivvy Feb 2016
Penny Pass
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3 – 4 days. Medium. Loop track.
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Distance: less than 100m away
3 day trip from upper Poulter River over Penny Pass between Minchin and Thompson Streams.
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Peak a chamois - Townsend Tops
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Distance: 2.2km away
Occasionally when walking between Townsend hut and Minchin pass you may play peak a boo with the wildlife.
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Townsend Hut
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Distance: 3.2km away
Early morning, heading for Lake Minchin to meet the 'Chuzzman' aka 'chuzz'.
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Townsend hut March 2009
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Distance: 3.5km away
Townsend hut which is perched high above the TL of the Taramakau River in the scrub - tussock transition zone ...
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Townsend hut
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Basic Hut/Bivvy (DOC). Capacity: 4.
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Distance: 3.5km away
Townsend hut which is perched high above the TL of the Taramakau River in the scrub - tussock transition zone ...
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Poulter Bivvy
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Basic Hut/Bivvy (DOC). Capacity: 2.
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Distance: 4.0km 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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Poulter Hut
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Standard Hut (DOC). Capacity: 10.
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Distance: 6.1km 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: 6.1km away
At the confluence of Poulter River and Minchin Stream, Arthurs Pass NP
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Harper Pass - Kiwi Saddle
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5 – 7 days. Medium. One way.
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Distance: 6.1km away
A classic crossing of the Main Divide, following the deep valleys of the Hope Fault from the Arthur's Pass road ...
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Picton to Aspiring
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Distance: 6.2km away
An aborted alpine traverse. Picton to West Cape, but aborted at Aspiring due to real world emergencies back home. Posted ...
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Locke Stream (No. 4) Hut
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Serviced Hut (DOC). Capacity: 18.
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Distance: 6.3km away
Once known as No. 4 Hut, this hut was build in 1939 as a tourist hut for the Harper Pass ...
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Mural gracing Koropuku hut
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Distance: 6.5km 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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Koropuku Hut
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Basic Hut/Bivvy (DOC). Capacity: 4.
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Distance: 6.5km 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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The Recutting of the NZFS track to Worsley Pass
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Distance: 6.7km away
How we searched for, found, recut and marked this ancient track that had been lost for 25 years.
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Worsley Biv
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Basic Hut/Bivvy (DOC). Capacity: 3.
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Distance: 6.7km 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: 6.7km 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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Sidle Mt Valiant
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Distance: 6.9km 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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Back down the Poulter from Worsley Pass
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Distance: 7.0km away
Back down the Poulter from Worsley Pass
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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: 7.2km away
Attractive old track from Otehake swingbridge to open tops. Recent extensions cut from gully to bypass waterfalls.
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Taramakau in the evening from Big Tops
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Distance: 7.3km 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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Herbfields above Worsley Pass
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Distance: 7.3km away
Herbfields above Worsley Pass
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route from Otehake Track to Big Tops Hut via Koropuku Gorge
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Distance: 7.5km away
Untracked mission only able to be done when rivers at low flows (usually from December to April).
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'20 minutes' rock, Big Tops
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Distance: 7.8km 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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Otehake Hot Springs
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Distance: 8.5km away
Otehake hot springs. October 25th 2009.
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route from Otehake Track to Big Tops Hut via Koropuku Gorge
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Distance: 8.5km 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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Edwards River-Otehake River
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4 days. Medium. One way.
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Distance: 8.5km away
Another north-south crossing of the park.
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Otehake Hot Springs
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2 days. Easy/medium. Return via same track.
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Distance: 8.6km away
A popular weekend route to good hot pools.
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Grand Traverse of Mt Pfeifer
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Distance: 8.6km away
Traverse from Kaurapataka Saddle, over summit to Waharoa Saddle.
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Lake Kaurapataka
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1 – 2 days. Easy. Return via same track.
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Distance: 9.3km away
Easy weekend trip to a pretty Arthur's Pass camping spot
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Lake Kaurapataka.
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Distance: 9.3km away
This small lake next to the Taramakau Valley is a good camping spot.
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Lake Sumner Conservation Park
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Conservation Park. 1057.71km2.
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Distance: 9.3km away
Lakes and forested hills in this sprawling park provide good tramping, and contrast with the rugged alpine environment of Arthur's ...
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Lake Kaurapataka
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Distance: 9.5km 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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Arthur's Pass National Park
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National Park. 1145.00km2.
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Distance: 9.5km away
This alpine park straddles the Main Divide of the Southern Alps, with dry beech forests in the east and damp ...
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