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Cheap & good tramping poles? Recommenations please

James the Giant posted in Gear talk • 6 comments, latest 22 April 20181 hour ago by geeves

All poles Ive run into will do the job. They are not going to break on you. However the features on some expensive poles makes them worth the money. I ...

Boots?

brettwalk posted in Gear talk • 20 comments, latest 21 April 2018yesterday by fdi4r978fg

Lowa Tibets https://www.lowaboots.com/mens/backpacking-hunting/tibet-gtx%C2%AE Expensive ($700) but are built like a behemoth

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Two dead in the Tararuas

izogi posted in The campfire • 84 comments, latest 21 April 2018yesterday by izogi

> ...until eventually he met a situation he couldnt cope with which happened to be severe enough to kill him ...and most likely someone else, which makes it even more sad.

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Trampers flown out of Tararua Range

Berend de Boer posted in The campfire • 10 comments, latest 21 April 2018yesterday by Berend de Boer

From a comment on Facebook: "They were told it wasn’t that easy to follow in the clag before they left herapai and didn’t have a gps on them lucky for ...

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Hip belt keeps sliding down my belly

fdi4r978fg posted in The campfire • 2 comments, latest 20 April 20181 day ago by geeves

The reality is that a strap will always slide to the loosest point. Thats why socks fall down and shorts legs ride up. If your hips are smaller than your ...

Communications in the backcountry

Cabbage posted in Gear talk • 12 comments, latest 20 April 20181 day ago by madpom

A few updates on my experience with inreach. The smartphone app that goes with it has become somewhat buggy since garmin took over from delorme. Had it fail a few ...

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Fiordland ideas for 22 April-10 May

marian posted in Tracks, routes, and huts • 23 comments, latest 18 April 20184 days ago by Pro-active

""Snow closed the Milford Road overnight, and MetService issued road snowfall warnings for the Lindis Pass and Crown Range Road, as a disturbed west to southwest wind flow affects the ...

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Sawcut Gorge

FrankB posted in Tracks, routes, and huts • 3 comments, latest 16 April 201816 April by waynowski

yeah gamble to go there, especially with all the heavy rain, could be a stream gets blocked or is already damed and breaks sending a flash flood through the gorge.

April 2018 updates

Matthew posted in This website • 7 comments, latest 15 April 201815 April by bernieq

Another glitch it would seem - photos are again grey boxes (in samsung browser but ok in chrome) on the home page and photographs pages. They are OK, however, if ...

Is it too late to do the Mueller Hut this season?

Henry99 posted in Tracks, routes, and huts • 4 comments, latest 11 April 201811 April by geeves

You could always go to Tasman Saddle Hut . A balmy -23 this morning. Just the thought of that causes severe shrinkage.

Rahui being urged for Waitakere Range

waynowski posted in The campfire • 16 comments, latest 11 April 201811 April by Forest823

Walked the Hillary Trail over Easter with my 13 yr old girl and her friend. They did really well, the last day is a pretty epic 30 km for a ...

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Gunsight Pass

Matthew posted in Tracks, routes, and huts • 11 comments, latest 9 April 20189 April by si-dog

This is a great trip but if its been raining the water comes right down the narrow gut that you walk up to the pass. The stuff you walk on ...

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Driving to Mars - live feed

Pro-active posted in The campfire • 12 comments, latest 8 April 20188 April by Pro-active

Good to see the jpg pic function working again. Thanks Matthew. 10th Feb is the telescope photo of the distant Falcon Heavy payload.

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Routeburn track and Matukituki valley report

giuseppe23 posted in Tracks, routes, and huts • 8 comments, latest 8 April 20188 April by waynowski

mesh or loose knitted fabric that lets a lot of air through open pockets into the jacket

Also looking for advice and/or a partner in May

marian posted in Visiting New Zealand • 57 comments, latest 7 April 20187 April by AffordableWind

Yes, it's a very good time for going any cool place

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Tararua Rescue on southern crossing

waynowski posted in The campfire • 29 comments, latest 7 April 20187 April by aardvark

It's just another tool in the kit which may or may not be of assistance . There are so many circumstances possible, it is hard to say if it will ...

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Disposing propane/butane canisters

indigo1 posted in Gear talk • 5 comments, latest 7 April 20187 April by Berend de Boer

Another option is to drop off non-empty canisters at hostels (call first obviously). Many have a hiker box. We always try to score free canisters from a hostel if we're ...

Drones in National Parks

Wanderwild posted in Tracks, routes, and huts • 21 comments, latest 7 April 20187 April by madpom

Thanks for the link @izogi. For those in a hurry caa have a summary here: https://www.caa.govt.nz/rpas/ And a faq here which includes an answer to the very question being asked: https://www.caa.govt.nz/rpas/rpas-faqs/

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Overland Track

giuseppe23 posted in Tracks, routes, and huts • 2 comments, latest 2 April 20182 April by bernieq

www.bushwalk.com has a forum devoted to the OT; a good source of important info and somewhere that specific questions can be answered. It's very busy (like the Routeburn) but, to my ...

Large are of High country land could be privatised

waynowski posted in The campfire • 3 comments, latest 27 March 201827 March by Honora

thanks for the link for status of pastoral leases, Matt. I've bookmarked it. Very useful.

I'm back (not that many will have noticed).

Bamboo posted in The campfire 27 March 201827 March • No comments

Hi guys, @Kreig and I must have been on some kind of similar "forum break" as I noticed he's back too. Not sure many will know me if i'm totally honest, although ...

Five passes with lake Nerine on Easter weekend

Anya Bachkirova posted in Tramping partners • 5 comments, latest 25 March 201825 March by aardvark

I'd love to help. It's a walk i have enjoyed three times and in different ways. I will probably touch on it again. Unfortunately, i'm in Brisbane right now. ...

Antipodes pest control operation starts

waynowski posted in The campfire • 3 comments, latest 22 March 201822 March by izogi

There's an excellent Stuff feature, from this month, on the motives for the mouse eradication at https://interactives.stuff.co.nz/2018/03/the-island/

Those new Great Walks

izogi posted in Tracks, routes, and huts • 30 comments, latest 20 March 201820 March by waynowski

the no of great walks has been unchanged for years , i think the wanganui river was the last one added, the rest of them have been around for decades... now ...

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Route from Carkeek to Dracophyllum knob/hut

si-dog posted in Tracks, routes, and huts • 20 comments, latest 9 March 20189 March by waynowski

I opted to sidle the gorge, it was slow going for me. had to climb a few hundred metres up to get away from the steeper slopes.

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