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Kathmandu Lansan UL tent - super thin floor?
em720 posted in Gear talk • 19 comments, latest 19 December 2018yesterday by
bernieq
tramps planned for the holidays?
waynowski posted in The campfire • 16 comments, latest 19 December 2018yesterday by
Gaiters
I do the sidle in 3 hours and the river in 2 and a half at late summer super low flows. I wouldn't climb onto the tops. The sidle is ...
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So things have come round to toilet training foreign adults
https://www.doc.govt.nz/parks-and-recreation/know-before-you-go/disposing-of-human-waste
Couple of glitches
glennj posted in This website
• 5 comments,
latest 18 December 20181 day ago by bernieq
Hi Matthew,
Clicking 'check-ins' crashes out to a stack dump with "The key [DISTANCE] does not exist". (chrome & firefox/win10, samsung & firefox/android)
Also, still can't sort a user's photos in chronological ...
2
Bones
Pro-active
They have 40% off their packs NOW, until Dec 24th. Have a chat with your local staff perhaps ?. They can possibly give you an indication. Macpac seem to have ...
Blisters under toes
Syncop8r posted in The campfire
• 10 comments,
latest 18 December 20181 day ago by pseudo
has anyone been to lake Adelaide recently from the Moraine Crk ( Hollyford Rd End ) ?
Whats the state of the track ? Windfalls / well marked etc
Patagonia and/or Nepal
giuseppe23 posted in The campfire
• 17 comments,
latest 16 December 20183 days ago by robertbrown
I've been to Nepal a few times now and have never hired a guide until the last trip where I went to an area that was a bit more off ...
2
DoC to charge visitors more on Great Walks
PhilipW posted in The campfire
• 34 comments,
latest 16 December 20183 days ago by waynowski
great walks arent so bad in good weather at the huts, people can spread themselves around outside, but when the weather is rough, you've got up to 50 people crammed ...
1
Pass hopping in Leatham Conservation Area
Gregor posted in Tracks, routes, and huts
• 7 comments,
latest 13 December 201813 December by glennj
Ta militaris. That report covers Silver Stream to Bull Paddock which is part of the country I'm hoping to travel.
Where to buy heat treated salami
TrailGirl posted in Food
• 8 comments,
latest 11 December 201811 December by Gregor
Another quick comment: fatty salamis are great to fry up and get the greasy goodness to fry up bread or anything else requiring oil/grease. Mmm, now that's a good backcountry ...
I have just done the RTM in 4 days , clockwise, about 28.5 hours walking time. My biggest day was Rangipo to Mangaturuturu in 9.5 hours and I got a ...
7
Tracks filled with Keas
Cooper1990 posted in Tracks, routes, and huts
• 15 comments,
latest 10 December 201810 December by si-dog
The only time I have seen heaps of them in one go was on the other side of Waimakariri Col. There must have been 15 or so hopping around and ...
1
Internal Frame Packs vs External Frame Packs
Syncop8r posted in Gear talk
• 11 comments,
latest 9 December 20189 December by jmeyer
Forgot to mention this earlier but regardless of the different views on this thread or any other...the thing that's most important with packs is how they feel on you - ...
1
Dusky track
giuseppe23 posted in Tracks, routes, and huts
• 15 comments,
latest 9 December 20189 December by 
Yarmoss
If it hasn’t been raining in 24 hours the crossings are fine, the bigger ones are all bridged with 3 wire bridges.
Of coarse, this is southern Fiordland where that means ...
3
Overcrowding in National Parks
nzbazza posted in The campfire
• 20 comments,
latest 7 December 20187 December by Forest328
Last week in Nelson Lakes there was hardly anyone in the valleys and it wasn’t until we got up to Angelus hut that we encountered more people. Stunning day up ...
3
Transport Haast to Martyr Homestead roadend?
Ian_H posted in Tracks, routes, and huts
• 3 comments,
latest 5 December 20185 December by 
lewshaw
fwiw,when you get to the Cascade using the 4wd track,go downstream. for a few hundred yards to find a fine gravelled crossing.In average flows this is crutch deep but quite ...
Yikes, thats one way to do it Wayno!
New Zealands longest swingbridges
sidna posted in The campfire
• 13 comments,
latest 2 December 20182 December by 
geeves
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Mr Finch
I know many of the subscribers to this forum are well travelled so I thought I might pick a few brains regarding China. I am thinking of doing a month ...
6/7 days worth of food in a 50 Lt backpack.
giuseppe23 posted in Gear talk
• 43 comments,
latest 30 November 201830 November by Syncop8r
I have the Cascade 75L... great pack.... I don't think I have been on any longer than a three-day trip with it. :-/
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Hi,
I am also from the Britain looking to do the north island Te Araroa starting in January. Am happy to solo but a partner would be great. I am ...
1
it did,
they arent on mt cook, they are beneath the footstool which is opposite the hooker valley from Mt cook
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