Newbie questions
Hi guys,
I've been lurking and reading up on the forum, so happy I found this. I tried to search for some answers, so sorry if these have already been covered.
I'm getting back into tramping and backpacking after 30 years. I was in the scouts and even did a trek guide course back in Europe before I joined the army back in Europe. Fast forward 30 years and I found myself in New Zealand which is an amazing country for tramping.
We've already done the Abel Tasman tour with lodge accommodation and are doing multiple day tramps as often as we can. We have booked a 3 day Routeburn track with hut accommodation for March.
Here's couple of questions:
1. Routeburn track kit list has stove etc listed, yet the huts are listed to have stoves & fuel. Would it make sense still to bring your own stove & canister in case?
2. We just spent the last weekend in Stewart Island doing day tramps while staying in a bach. We'd love to do the Rakiura track, but the huts are booked full so early. I asked at the DOC office if we can do the Rakiura track but stay in a tent and the answer was a bit vague, that we could stay in a tent in a vicinity of the huts. I read in this forum that freedom camping is allowed within 200/500m from Great Walks tracks (if I understood correctly), so tent accommodation would be possible?
We don't mind paying for staying, but huts get so booked so early and quickly, we'd rather stay in a tent anyway as the missus only needs to listen to me snore and not a choir.
Any feedback / recommendations are appreciated.
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@waynowski It's not that I really wanted to stay in huts, but we didn't know what other options were at the time when we booked it months ago, also we didn't have the kit. Over the last few months, we purchased slowly the necessary kit and we're only missing a tent and mats now for go completely 'freedom' camping. It's been a gradual process, but in a way it's been good, as we've been able to focus on getting high quality lightweight kit, since we had to buy pretty much everything.
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Started by | Lempo |
On | 26 February 2018 |
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