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Hi Guys,
Thank you for the tips, very much appreciated, great background info here.
I will research both ways: enquiring by helicopter companies around the area (or maybe boat would be another option to reach such ...
tracks like the routeburn are complicated by the massive no of day walkers in the warmer months at either end of the track as well... no money earned from them unless they are part of ...
Never mind gloves, glissading in crampons = pecker woods
HikingNZ may be interested.
https://www.hikingnewzealand.com/
roscoes can only have permission to land at sandfly point in may from what they told me..
Hi There,
A friend and I are are walking the Routeburn Track Te Anau (Divide) -Queenstown (Routeburn Shelter) direction on the 1st-3rd March 2014.
Is there anyone out there doing it the other direction who would like ...
Thanks for all the suggestions! I mostly plan on hiking all the big trails n such, I'm more of a scenic traveler. Luckily I have over a year to plan everything out.
Thanks again!
There is a new hut at Perry Saddle http://www.tramper.co.nz/?8558 and another new one at Heaphy http://www.tramper.co.nz/?8560. They are large, quite well appointed huts I think, considering the number of people using the track.
There is a ...
Thanks waynowski and Chris1 I'll keep all that in mind :)
If you're based out of Auckland they are great folks to deal with.
http://www.drivenz.co.nz/
http://www.allwaysrental.com/
Don't forget have fun and drive carefully......
Thanks for all that really helpful information. It has really got me longing to get there. I appreciate the time you have taken to give me all the details. Thank you.
Just to give some perpective on this tramping with children: In 1958, my sisters at the ages of 6 and 7, did a Doubtful Sound to Dusky Sound trip with our father, another young lad ...
wow great pics mate, looks like you had a blast and good weather?
and for the Dusky, these guys offer transport:
http://www.tripsandtramps.com
A trip up Mt Fox at Fox Glacier offers wonderful views of the Southern Alps and doesn't need a rope. But it can be noisy with the helicopters / scenic planes. Also a more sedate ...
This site is a good place to come for GPX files. See http://www.tramper.co.nz/?view=browsegpxFiles
You might also want to have a look at some of my older ones that I posted on http://www.giscover.com Just change it to ...
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