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Pohangina crossing

Photograph • Distance: 2.3km away

Swing bridge below Mid Pohangina hut and the start of the ubiquitous sidle track. Why does the term sidle always ... More ▶︎

Southern Crossing of the Ruahines

Track • 2 – 3 days. Easy/medium. One way. • Distance: 2.4km away

A track and river route crossing of the Lower Ruahine Forest park More ▶︎

Mid Pohangina Hut

Photograph • Distance: 2.4km away

8 bunk hut open fire More ▶︎

Mid Pohangina Hut

Hut • Standard Hut (DOC). Capacity: 4. • Distance: 2.4km away

Mid Pohangina Hut sits on a pleasant grassy flat just above the Pohangina River north of its confluence with Cattle ... More ▶︎

Mid Pohangina Hut 15 minutes

Photograph • Distance: 2.4km away

After wandering down the river you arrive cold and wet (on an off day) at this sign which points at ... More ▶︎

Ngamoko Hut

Photograph • Distance: 3.1km away

A pleasant 6-bunk hut looking across the mid reaches of the Pohongina to a large grassy slip. An hour or ... More ▶︎

Ngamoko Hut

Hut • Standard Hut (DOC). Capacity: 6. • Distance: 3.1km away

Ngamoko Hut (6 bunks, stove, river water) is a pleasent hut located in scrub on the western bank of the ... More ▶︎

Cattle Creek Hut

Photograph • Distance: 3.8km away

A tidy 8 bunk platform style hut fully resplendent in its updated NZFS orange colour scheme. More ▶︎

Pohangina River

Photograph • Distance: 4.1km away

mid way through the small Pohangina gorge More ▶︎

Upper Pohangina

Photograph • Distance: 4.1km away

River route to Mid Pohangina Hut from Cattle creek More ▶︎

Pohangina scramble

Photograph • Distance: 4.1km away

Not deep enough to swim but small enough to to give you the idea you can avoid getting wet feet. ... More ▶︎

Walking the length of the Ruahines

Article • Distance: 4.5km away

This article documents my recollections of the Ruahine setion (Wharite to Kuripapango) of a walk from Wharite near Palmerston North ... More ▶︎

Cattle Creek Hut

Hut • Standard Hut (DOC). Capacity: 6. • Distance: 4.5km away

On river flats in the upper reaches of Cattle Creek lies Cattle Creek Hut (6 beds, wood-burning stove, firewood available ... More ▶︎

Cattle Creek Hut

Photograph • Distance: 4.5km away

A tidy 8 bunk platform style hut resplendent in forest service orange. More ▶︎

Cattle Creek Hut

Photograph • Distance: 5.0km away

Cattle Creek hut in the southern Ruahine Range More ▶︎

Walking the length of the Ruahines

Track • 10 – 25 days. Medium/hard. One way. • Distance: 5.1km away

A 10+ day trip down to backbone of the Ruahine Range from Wharite (Palmerston Sth) to the Napier Taihape (Gentle ... More ▶︎

Duck Pond Hut

Hut • Private hut (PVT). Capacity: 2. • Distance: 5.2km away

A 2-bunk hut on private land, just outside the Ruahine forest park. This hut lies in the upper reaches of ... More ▶︎

Duck Pond Hut

Photograph • Distance: 5.2km away

A private 2-bunk hut, tucked into the headwaters of the Ngamoko catchment in the Ruahines. More ▶︎

Forks Hut, Diggers Hut and Te Ekaou Hut access

Track • 1 – 2 days. Medium. One way. • Distance: 5.5km away

Several public and private access routes into these huts in the southern Ruahines and suggested round and though trips. More ▶︎

Standfield Hut

Photograph • Distance: 5.8km away

Standfield Hut More ▶︎

Standfield Hut

Hut • Standard Hut (DOC). Capacity: 6. • Distance: 6.0km away

Standfield (Stanfield) Hut (6 bunks, woodburing stove, tank water, firewood available in locality) is a comfortable riverside hut on the ... More ▶︎

Pohongina River at Leon Kinvig hut

Photograph • Distance: 6.3km away

Grassy faces and scattered beech predominate on the Pohongina valleysides above Leon Kinvig More ▶︎

Leon Kinvig Hut

Photograph • Distance: 6.3km away

A tidy 8-bunk hut in the mid-reaches of the Pohongina Valley. Tracks climb both ranges to the east and west, ... More ▶︎

Leon Kinvig Hut

Hut • Standard Hut (DOC). Capacity: 8. • Distance: 6.3km away

Leon Kinvig Hut sleeps 8 on 2 platforms. There's a good open fire, plenty of wood around, and water from ... More ▶︎

Leon Kinvig Hut

Photograph • Distance: 6.4km away

Leon Kinvig Hut is in the middle reaches of the Pohangina River in the Ruahines and can be reached from ... More ▶︎

Pimelea near Toka

Photograph • Distance: 6.8km away

Pimelea in flower near Toka Trig, Ngamoko Range in the western Ruahines (Poss P. Buxifolia) More ▶︎

Track from Takapari Rd down to Diggers Hut

Photograph • Distance: 7.5km away

Track from Takapari Rd down to Diggers Hut, southern Ruahines. About 5km down this broad but sometimes boggy track, then ... More ▶︎

Takapari A Frame Hut / Travers Hut / Traverse Hut (Ruahine)

Hut • Basic Hut/Bivvy (DOC). Capacity: 6. • Distance: 7.6km away

Travers (6 bunks, no matresses) is a very basic A-frame hut on the Takapari Road in the Southern Ruahines. There's ... More ▶︎

Toka Biv

Hut • Basic Hut/Bivvy (DOC). Capacity: 2. • Distance: 7.7km away

Toka Biv (2 bunk, tarn water) is a small dog-box bivvy on a small plateau on the Pohongina Valley side ... More ▶︎

Toka Biv

Photograph • Distance: 7.8km away

Toka Biv in the Ruahine Range Between Toka and Tunopo. Used to be called Ngamoko Biv. It sits on a ... More ▶︎

Toka Biv

Photograph • Distance: 7.8km away

Toka Biv in the Ruahine Range Between Toka and Tunopo. Used to be called Ngamoko Biv. It sits on a ... More ▶︎

Diggers Hut

Photograph • Distance: 8.6km away

Diggers Hut in the Ruahines. A spacious 4-bunk hut at the back of a flat of waist-high grass in the ... More ▶︎

Diggers Hut

Hut • Standard Hut (DOC). Capacity: 4. • Distance: 8.7km away

Diggers Hut has been washed away. Diggers Hut in the Ruahines. A spacious 4-bunk hut at the back of a flat ... More ▶︎

Makawakawa Stream below Diggers Hut

Photograph • Distance: 8.7km away

Makawakawa Stream below Diggers Hut in the Ruahines. The riverbed route into the hut from Pohongina Valley East Rd. More ▶︎

Rangiwahia Triangle Iron gate Alice Nash Memorial

Track • 2 – 3 days. Medium. One way. • Distance: 8.7km away

Typical Ruahine weekend tramp 4 huts, open tops,river travel and some great bush. More ▶︎

Looking down onto Cattle Creek Hut from ridge

Photograph • Distance: 8.7km away

Looking down onto the hut from the ridge just above it, quite a steep drop strait down to hut, easier ... More ▶︎

A-Frame hut (Traverse hut)

Photograph • Distance: 8.7km away

Very basic htu, was a very welcome sight to see takapari road after a pretty much 2 and a half ... More ▶︎

Stanfield Hut

Photograph • Distance: 8.7km away

nice 2 and a half hour walk via holmes ridge, Perfect for a little day trip or for a 1st ... More ▶︎

A-Frame track looking down onto holmes ridge

Photograph • Distance: 8.7km away

Steady climb for about 2 and a half hours, views definitly paid off, weather isnt to good to be on ... More ▶︎

Rangiwahia Triangle Iron gate Alice Nash Memorial

GPX file • Distance: 8.8km away

Typical Ruahine weekend tramp 4 huts, open tops,river travel and some great bush. More ▶︎

Bridge to Heritage Lodge

Photograph • Distance: 8.8km away

Wooden arched bridge on the track to Heritage, Ruahines More ▶︎

Umutoi ferns snow

Photograph • Distance: 8.9km away

Snow on tree ferns at Umutoi stream on the track to Alice Nash Heritage Lodge. May 2009. More ▶︎

Umutoi bridge snow

Photograph • Distance: 8.9km away

Snow on the track to Alice Nash Heritage Lodge, at the bridge over Umutoi stream. May 2009. More ▶︎