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Longview Makaretu Awatere Circuit

Track • 2 days. Easy/medium. Loop track. • Distance: less than 100m away

2 Day circuit in the Ruahine Forrest park from Moorcock Saddle 3 huts some tops bush and river travel. More ▶︎

Makaretu

Hut • Standard Hut (DOC). Capacity: 8. • Distance: less than 100m away

8 Bunk hut Southern branch Makaretuu river. Visit as part of a circuit from moorcock saddle including Longview and Awatere ... More ▶︎

Happy Daze Hut

Hut • Basic Hut/Bivvy (DOC). Capacity: 4. • Distance: 2.3km away

Small, with ample camping. Seems to be some dispute over naming, with Happi Daze being (somewhat forcefully) pushed by some. More ▶︎

Leon Kinvig Hut

Photograph • Distance: 3.4km away

Leon Kinvig Hut is in the middle reaches of the Pohangina River in the Ruahines and can be reached from ... More ▶︎

Pohongina River at Leon Kinvig hut

Photograph • Distance: 3.4km away

Grassy faces and scattered beech predominate on the Pohongina valleysides above Leon Kinvig More ▶︎

Leon Kinvig Hut

Photograph • Distance: 3.4km away

A tidy 8-bunk hut in the mid-reaches of the Pohongina Valley. Tracks climb both ranges to the east and west, ... More ▶︎

Leon Kinvig Hut

Hut • Standard Hut (DOC). Capacity: 8. • Distance: 3.4km away

Leon Kinvig Hut sleeps 8 on 2 platforms. There's a good open fire, plenty of wood around, and water from ... More ▶︎

Top Gorge Hut

Hut • Basic Hut/Bivvy (DOC). Capacity: 2. • Distance: 4.0km away

Top Gorge Hut (2 bunks, 3 mattresses, open fire with ample firewood available, river water) is a small, basic hut ... More ▶︎

Top Gorge hut

Photograph • Distance: 4.0km away

Top Gorge Hut in the head waters of the Pohangina River in the Ruahines. Can be reached from Longview Hut, ... More ▶︎

Awatere hut

Photograph • Distance: 4.1km away

North branch of the makaretu river More ▶︎

Awatere Hut

Hut • Basic Hut/Bivvy (DOC). Capacity: 3. • Distance: 4.1km away

Nice 3 bunk hutin the ruahines built in 1957, nice ridge travel over from Kashmir rd. Mainly used by hunters. Also 10 ... More ▶︎

Walking the length of the Ruahines

Track • 10 – 25 days. Medium/hard. One way. • Distance: 4.3km away

A 10+ day trip down to backbone of the Ruahine Range from Wharite (Palmerston Sth) to the Napier Taihape (Gentle ... More ▶︎

Toka Biv

Photograph • Distance: 4.3km away

Toka Biv in the Ruahine Range Between Toka and Tunopo. Used to be called Ngamoko Biv. It sits on a ... More ▶︎

Toka Biv

Hut • Basic Hut/Bivvy (DOC). Capacity: 2. • Distance: 4.3km away

Toka Biv (2 bunk, tarn water) is a small dog-box bivvy on a small plateau on the Pohongina Valley side ... More ▶︎

Toka Biv

Photograph • Distance: 4.3km away

Toka Biv in the Ruahine Range Between Toka and Tunopo. Used to be called Ngamoko Biv. It sits on a ... More ▶︎

Longview Howletts Daphne Circuit

GPX file • Distance: 4.6km away

A circuit in the Ruahines taking in three well equiped huts More ▶︎

Pimelea near Toka

Photograph • Distance: 5.1km away

Pimelea in flower near Toka Trig, Ngamoko Range in the western Ruahines (Poss P. Buxifolia) More ▶︎

Duck Pond Hut

Hut • Private hut (PVT). Capacity: 2. • Distance: 5.4km away

A 2-bunk hut on private land, just outside the Ruahine forest park. This hut lies in the upper reaches of ... More ▶︎

Duck Pond Hut

Photograph • Distance: 5.4km away

A private 2-bunk hut, tucked into the headwaters of the Ngamoko catchment in the Ruahines. More ▶︎

Longview Howletts Daphne Circuit

Track • 2 – 3 days. Medium. Loop track with a road section. • Distance: 5.7km away

A circuit in the Ruahines taking in three well equiped huts More ▶︎

Longview hut

Photograph • Distance: 5.8km away

Great view on a clear day More ▶︎

Longview Hut

Hut • Serviced Hut (DOC). Capacity: 12. • Distance: 5.8km away

Longview hut (12 bed platforms, firewood, tank water,non-flush toilet) provided a view of nothing but mist on the occasion I ... More ▶︎

Walking the length of the Ruahines

Article • Distance: 5.8km away

This article documents my recollections of the Ruahine setion (Wharite to Kuripapango) of a walk from Wharite near Palmerston North ... More ▶︎

Longview Hut

Photograph • Distance: 5.8km away

Longview Hut (Ruahine Range) More ▶︎

View from longview hut-or lack of

Photograph • Distance: 5.8km away

View from the hut with about50-150m visibility, really bad weather for tramping but still enjoyable More ▶︎

Longview Track

Photograph • Distance: 5.8km away

Very exposed track that can become dangerous, at the very least, unpleasant due to high winds. More ▶︎

Longview Track

Photograph • Distance: 5.8km away

Very exposed track that can become dangerous, at the very least, unpleasant due to high winds. More ▶︎

Longview Pano

Photograph • Distance: 5.8km away

Panorama of Central Hawke's Bay from Longview Hut. More ▶︎

Longview track

Photograph • Distance: 5.8km away

Looking out towards napier/coast around about 1280 metres asl along the daphne-longview track just before the last climb to the ... More ▶︎

Trampers on route to Longview Hut

Photograph • Distance: 5.8km away

Photo is taken just out of the bush from the daphne hut track,Was a very windy day though. Snow up ... More ▶︎

Ngamoko Hut

Photograph • Distance: 6.4km away

A pleasant 6-bunk hut looking across the mid reaches of the Pohongina to a large grassy slip. An hour or ... More ▶︎

Ngamoko Hut

Hut • Standard Hut (DOC). Capacity: 6. • Distance: 6.4km away

Ngamoko Hut (6 bunks, stove, river water) is a pleasent hut located in scrub on the western bank of the ... More ▶︎

Longview to Howletts

Photograph • Distance: 7.5km away

Moments before the clag decended the rest of the weekend was wet and misty More ▶︎

Long view to Howletts

Photograph • Distance: 7.6km away

Started out a beautiful day but rapidly closed in Looking North towards the Daphne Howletts turn off More ▶︎

Upper Pohangina

Photograph • Distance: 7.9km away

River route to Mid Pohangina Hut from Cattle creek More ▶︎

Pohangina scramble

Photograph • Distance: 8.0km away

Not deep enough to swim but small enough to to give you the idea you can avoid getting wet feet. ... More ▶︎

Cattle Creek Hut

Photograph • Distance: 8.1km away

A tidy 8 bunk platform style hut fully resplendent in its updated NZFS orange colour scheme. More ▶︎

Pohangina River

Photograph • Distance: 8.1km away

mid way through the small Pohangina gorge More ▶︎

Cattle Creek Hut

Photograph • Distance: 8.3km away

Cattle Creek hut in the southern Ruahine Range More ▶︎

Southern Crossing of the Ruahines

Track • 2 – 3 days. Easy/medium. One way. • Distance: 8.3km away

A track and river route crossing of the Lower Ruahine Forest park More ▶︎

Cattle Creek Hut

Hut • Standard Hut (DOC). Capacity: 6. • Distance: 8.7km away

On river flats in the upper reaches of Cattle Creek lies Cattle Creek Hut (6 beds, wood-burning stove, firewood available ... More ▶︎

Cattle Creek Hut

Photograph • Distance: 8.7km away

A tidy 8 bunk platform style hut resplendent in forest service orange. More ▶︎

Mid Pohangina Hut

Hut • Standard Hut (DOC). Capacity: 4. • Distance: 8.8km away

Mid Pohangina Hut sits on a pleasant grassy flat just above the Pohangina River north of its confluence with Cattle ... More ▶︎

Mid Pohangina Hut

Photograph • Distance: 8.8km away

8 bunk hut open fire More ▶︎

Mid Pohangina Hut 15 minutes

Photograph • Distance: 9.0km away

After wandering down the river you arrive cold and wet (on an off day) at this sign which points at ... More ▶︎

Rangiwahia Triangle Iron gate Alice Nash Memorial

GPX file • Distance: 9.1km away

Typical Ruahine weekend tramp 4 huts, open tops,river travel and some great bush. More ▶︎

Pohangina crossing

Photograph • Distance: 9.2km away

Swing bridge below Mid Pohangina hut and the start of the ubiquitous sidle track. Why does the term sidle always ... More ▶︎

Piripiri Hut

Hut • Basic Hut/Bivvy (DOC). Capacity: 2. • Distance: 9.3km away

Piripiri Hut is a comfortably spacious 2-bunk hut in the western Ruahine Ranges. Water is from a small creek 20m ... More ▶︎

Great inventions

Photograph • Distance: 9.4km away

I wouldnt be without my walking pole anymore More ▶︎

Rangiwahia Triangle Iron gate Alice Nash Memorial

Track • 2 – 3 days. Medium. One way. • Distance: 9.7km away

Typical Ruahine weekend tramp 4 huts, open tops,river travel and some great bush. More ▶︎