Tracks, routes, and huts

and too much american fast food and junk food....

Your spelling is much better than mine. Those are 2 of the tracks

I doubt it, they are on completely different ranges with a massive glacier in between. fitzgerald pass might be the best route.. it's now preferable to the copland as being the safer route you need to be ...

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10840723 A lahar on Mt Tongariro early on Sunday morning has helped to make the Tongariro Alpine Crossing track safe to reopen.

I see this new Kaimanawa Forest park Pamphlet is out from DOC. Lots of good up to date info here. http://www.doc.govt.nz/publications/parks-and-recreation/tracks-and-walks/central-north-island/kaimanawa-forest-park-brochure/

I went in November and May. From memory, I needed to traverse a bit in order to cross a small schrund near the pass. This was filled in by November. I didn't take a rope ...

trudge col from the hawdon side , you can make out the details of what i've said, the upper scree slope the bluffs and the strip of scree running diagonally from the right down to ...

same stuff as that shot putter. Just need lots more of it. Even NZers dont know how long this track is without a little research first. 3 months would of been a better answer Te Araroa ...

i prefer the routeburn in three, the huts are at such fantastic locations you have to stop and relax there...

Yeah. We drooled over the beautiful area between Florence and Lake Roe. That looked such a fabulous route. All done with tent, ice axes/crampons, and - what - two weeks of food? Monster pack!

The mud on NW circuit is not a bad representation of what you'll encounter on the Dusky, the Dusky is worse but the NW is the closest Ive encountered to it. The Dusky has some very ...

new bulletin from GNS here http://www.geonet.org.nz/volcano/alert-bulletins/archives/2012/aug-27-2012-12-30-pm-tongariro-volcano.html

Thanks, MP. That makes more sense. :)

Underfoot it will be snow, scree, boulders & short scrub. I wouldn't be keen to bivvy above the Douglas Rock hut at this time of year tho it wouldn't have bothered me when I was younger. From ...

Would they be suitable for NZ? http://www.trademe.co.nz/sports/ski-board/other/auction-485973903.htm

Hi Bushtrekker, I did this trip in Dec 2010. Challenging in some parts but a real "must do" tramp. Re the hut/private batch (up on poles) just in from the mouth of the Hope. I ...

Thank you very much for these informations! I'll have a better look at the tracks you are talking about. Cheers

Thanks for your reply robhoult, I'll check it out. It looks like a fun route!

A high country rather than alpine destination, but quite a bit goes on in central otago: oteake and old man ranges. If that's your sort of thing, call doc in alexandra. Several of their staff ...

theres one long day in it with lots of hills. 24km... the rest is straight forward... big choice of type of accomodation for all budgets... boats can ferry your gear between accomodation, so you only need a ...

note the avalanche paths in orange in the map http://www.doc.govt.nz/upload/documents/parks-and-recreation/tracks-and-walks/southland/milford-track-winter-tramping.pdf

News release from Auckland council: http://www.aucklandcouncil.govt.nz/EN/newseventsculture/OurAuckland/News/Pages/aitakererangestrackclosures.aspx From 1 July, Auckland Council will be closing 13 "kauri protection zones" in Waitakere Ranges R...

Thanks for the posts so far. Forgot to say 2 members of our group have already done angelus and bush hut so looking for something different. But very helpful suggestions so far!

upper caples track over the saddle is impassable in heavy rain... the stream isnt bridged at all in this section..

I've heard back from a helpful DoC person (and also Stewart Barclay of TACTAG, and they apologised that the media's jumped the gun and the final DoC-ready protocols aren't properly agreed on or established in ...