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Stanfield Hut
Looking down onto Cattle Creek Hut from ridge
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Distance: less than 100m away
Looking down onto the hut from the ridge just above it, quite a steep drop strait down to hut, easier ...
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A-Frame hut (Traverse hut)
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Distance: less than 100m away
Very basic htu, was a very welcome sight to see takapari road after a pretty much 2 and a half ...
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A-Frame track looking down onto holmes ridge
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Distance: less than 100m away
Steady climb for about 2 and a half hours, views definitly paid off, weather isnt to good to be on ...
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Southern Crossing of the Ruahines
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2 – 3 days. Easy/medium. One way.
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Distance: 304m away
A track and river route crossing of the Lower Ruahine Forest park
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Takapari A Frame Hut / Travers Hut / Traverse Hut (Ruahine)
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Basic Hut/Bivvy (DOC). Capacity: 6.
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Distance: 1.7km away
Travers (6 bunks, no matresses) is a very basic A-frame hut on the Takapari Road in the Southern Ruahines. There's ...
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Walking the length of the Ruahines
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Distance: 3.3km away
This article documents my recollections of the Ruahine setion (Wharite to Kuripapango) of a walk from Wharite near Palmerston North ...
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Forks Hut, Diggers Hut and Te Ekaou Hut access
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1 – 2 days. Medium. One way.
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Distance: 3.3km away
Several public and private access routes into these huts in the southern Ruahines and suggested round and though trips.
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Standfield Hut
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Standard Hut (DOC). Capacity: 6.
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Distance: 3.6km away
Standfield (Stanfield) Hut (6 bunks, woodburing stove, tank water, firewood available in locality) is a comfortable riverside hut on the ...
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Leatherleaf expanses of the Southern Ruahines
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Distance: 4.0km away
Leatherleaf expanses of the Southern Ruahines from Takapari Road
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Track from Takapari Rd down to Diggers Hut
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Distance: 4.2km away
Track from Takapari Rd down to Diggers Hut, southern Ruahines. About 5km down this broad but sometimes boggy track, then ...
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Track from Takapari Rd to Forks Hut
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Distance: 5.3km away
Cut track from leatherwood and scrub from Takapari Roadend down the ridge to the north of Forks Hut. Track starts ...
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Cattle Creek Hut
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Distance: 6.1km away
A tidy 8 bunk platform style hut fully resplendent in its updated NZFS orange colour scheme.
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Cattle Creek Hut
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Distance: 6.1km away
A tidy 8 bunk platform style hut resplendent in forest service orange.
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Cattle Creek Hut
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Standard Hut (DOC). Capacity: 6.
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Distance: 6.1km away
On river flats in the upper reaches of Cattle Creek lies Cattle Creek Hut (6 beds, wood-burning stove, firewood available ...
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Walking the length of the Ruahines
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10 – 25 days. Medium/hard. One way.
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Distance: 6.2km away
A 10+ day trip down to backbone of the Ruahine Range from Wharite (Palmerston Sth) to the Napier Taihape (Gentle ...
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Cattle Creek Hut
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Distance: 6.4km away
Cattle Creek hut in the southern Ruahine Range
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Diggers Hut
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Distance: 6.5km away
Diggers Hut in the Ruahines. A spacious 4-bunk hut at the back of a flat of waist-high grass in the ...
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Diggers Hut
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Standard Hut (DOC). Capacity: 4.
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Distance: 6.6km away
Diggers Hut has been washed away.
Diggers Hut in the Ruahines. A spacious 4-bunk hut at the back of a flat ...
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Makawakawa Stream below Diggers Hut
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Distance: 6.6km away
Makawakawa Stream below Diggers Hut in the Ruahines. The riverbed route into the hut from Pohongina Valley East Rd.
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River travel above Forks Hut
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Distance: 6.6km away
River travel above Forks Hut in the Ruahines. The northern fork of the creek from the hut, combined with a ...
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Pohangina crossing
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Distance: 6.8km away
Swing bridge below Mid Pohangina hut and the start of the ubiquitous sidle track. Why does the term sidle always ...
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Pohangina scramble
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Distance: 6.9km away
Not deep enough to swim but small enough to to give you the idea you can avoid getting wet feet. ...
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Mid Pohangina Hut 15 minutes
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Distance: 6.9km away
After wandering down the river you arrive cold and wet (on an off day) at this sign which points at ...
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Upper Pohangina
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Distance: 6.9km away
River route to Mid Pohangina Hut from Cattle creek
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Mid Pohangina Hut
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Standard Hut (DOC). Capacity: 4.
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Distance: 7.1km away
Mid Pohangina Hut sits on a pleasant grassy flat just above the Pohangina River north of its confluence with Cattle ...
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Forks Hut (Ruahine Ranges)
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Distance: 7.6km away
Forks Hut in the southern Ruahines. A riverside hut at the base of a steep gorge on the southern fork ...
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Forks Hut (Ruahine)
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Standard Hut (DOC). Capacity: 6.
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Distance: 7.7km away
A 6 bunker in regenrating bush in the Southern Ruahines. Wood burner and stream water.
Not so widely visited - ...
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Piripiri Hut
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Basic Hut/Bivvy (DOC). Capacity: 2.
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Distance: 8.7km away
Piripiri Hut is a comfortably spacious 2-bunk hut in the western Ruahine Ranges. Water is from a small creek 20m ...
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Te Ekaou Hut
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Distance: 8.8km away
Te Ekaou Hut in the southern Ruahines. One of few surviving bushedge huts in the Ruahines. Accessed across private land, ...
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Te Ekaou Hut
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Standard Hut (DOC). Capacity: 6.
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Distance: 8.8km away
Te Ekaou Hut in the southern Ruahines - one of few surviving bushedge huts in the Ruahines. Accessed across private ...
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Ngamoko Hut
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Distance: 9.3km away
A pleasant 6-bunk hut looking across the mid reaches of the Pohongina to a large grassy slip. An hour or ...
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Ngamoko Hut
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Standard Hut (DOC). Capacity: 6.
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Distance: 9.3km away
Ngamoko Hut (6 bunks, stove, river water) is a pleasent hut located in scrub on the western bank of the ...
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Duck Pond Hut
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Distance: 9.4km away
A private 2-bunk hut, tucked into the headwaters of the Ngamoko catchment in the Ruahines.
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Duck Pond Hut
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Private hut (PVT). Capacity: 2.
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Distance: 9.4km away
A 2-bunk hut on private land, just outside the Ruahine forest park. This hut lies in the upper reaches of ...
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