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Anini clearing fly camp

upper anini campsite

upper anini campsite

bush camp, anini   More ▶︎
log jam, upper anini

log jam, upper anini

Nice wilderness area,   More ▶︎
Anini-Ruakituri Junction

Anini-Ruakituri Junction

This place is crawling with trout. Pity it's two big days walk from anywhere.   More ▶︎
Ruakituri River Crossing

Ruakituri River Crossing

The Upper Ruakituri meanders over tilted papa slabs, allowing wide, shallow but very slippery crossings.   More ▶︎
Whopper Cave Weta

Whopper Cave Weta

This one was on a river bank, she got a fright and jumped into the water so we rescued her.   More ▶︎
Upper upper Ruakituri

Upper upper Ruakituri

Anne Marie just above where the Ruakituri disappears underground.   More ▶︎
Tui Flat Hut

Tui Flat Hut

hut.   More ▶︎
Tui Flat Hut

Tui Flat Hut

Unofficial but kind-of-official hut in the Ruakituri Wilderness Area, Te Urewera. Has a hut book, axe, billys, fireplace, a history ...   More ▶︎

A Waioeka - Urewera crossing: Redpaths Road to SH38

Continuing my traverse of the North Island's Main Range, this trip crosses the Waioeka Conservation and (former) Urewera National Park, ...   More ▶︎
Five Day Trip in the Ureweras

Five Day Trip in the Ureweras

A GPX file of a 5 day loop walk in the Ureweras   More ▶︎
Inside Te Rangaakapu Hut

Inside Te Rangaakapu Hut

Three bunks, a large bench and a kent fire built into a little alcove. There is lots of firewood around ...   More ▶︎
Te Rangaakapu Hut

Te Rangaakapu Hut

A magnificent place to be, or is it the state you are in when you get there? A welcome site ...   More ▶︎
Te Rangaakapua Hut

Te Rangaakapua Hut

Just about as far as you can go in the Ureweras. I have heard this place described as one of ...   More ▶︎
A 5 day loop in the Ureweras

A 5 day loop in the Ureweras

Wet rocky streams, long hauls over bush ridges on overgrown tracks, not much in the way of open tops. It ...   More ▶︎
View SE from Te Rangaakapua

View SE from Te Rangaakapua

View SE from Te Rangaakapua hut, looking at point 1368 which is part of Maungapohatu. taken Feb 2010   More ▶︎
Mangatoatoa Hut

Mangatoatoa Hut

A pleasant well maintained hut in a clearing high up on the Tauranga River. On the track from Makomako which ...   More ▶︎
Mangatoatoa Hut

Mangatoatoa Hut

Mangatoatoa hut. Picture taken 6-Feb-2010.   More ▶︎

A Waioeka - Urewera Tarverse

A trip shadowing the main divide through the Waioeka Conservation Area and Urewera National Park. See related track for a route ...   More ▶︎

Ruakituri Wilderness Area

Wilderness area located on the Huiarau Range in Te Urewera.   More ▶︎
Pool in the Kopuapounamu Stream

Pool in the Kopuapounamu Stream

We camped next to this pretty pool in the Kopuapounamu stream, upper Ruakituri catchment.   More ▶︎
Blue Mushroom

Blue Mushroom

There are a few of these pretty blue fungi in the Ureweras. Man they taste good!   More ▶︎
Peripatus

Peripatus

Found this cool peripatus in a rotten log in the Kopuapounamu basin, upper Ruakituri catchment, Ureweras.   More ▶︎
Ruakituri Sump Gorge

Ruakituri Sump Gorge

Most of the upper ruakituri river disappears underground, leaving a trickle to vanish down a deep jagged limestone gorge.   More ▶︎