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Pohangina crossing

Mid Pohangina Hut 15 minutes

Mid Pohangina Hut 15 minutes

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

Southern Crossing of the Ruahines

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

Mid Pohangina Hut

8 bunk hut open fire   More ▶︎
Mid Pohangina Hut

Mid Pohangina Hut

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

Cattle Creek Hut

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

Pohangina River

mid way through the small Pohangina gorge   More ▶︎
Pohangina scramble

Pohangina scramble

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

Upper Pohangina

River route to Mid Pohangina Hut from Cattle creek   More ▶︎
Walking the length of the Ruahines

Walking the length of the Ruahines

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

Cattle Creek Hut

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

Cattle Creek Hut

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

Piripiri Hut

Piripiri Hut is a comfortably spacious 2-bunk hut in the western Ruahine Ranges. Water is from a small creek 20m ...   More ▶︎
Cattle Creek Hut

Cattle Creek Hut

Cattle Creek hut in the southern Ruahine Range   More ▶︎
Ngamoko Hut

Ngamoko Hut

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

Ngamoko Hut

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

Standfield Hut

Standfield Hut   More ▶︎
Standfield Hut

Standfield Hut

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

Forks Hut, Diggers Hut and Te Ekaou Hut access

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

Duck Pond Hut

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

Duck Pond Hut

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

Walking the length of the Ruahines

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

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

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

Track from Takapari Rd down to Diggers Hut

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

Leon Kinvig Hut

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

Pohongina River at Leon Kinvig hut

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

Leon Kinvig Hut

A tidy 8-bunk hut in the mid-reaches of the Pohongina Valley. Tracks climb both ranges to the east and west, ...   More ▶︎
Looking down onto Cattle Creek Hut from ridge

Looking down onto Cattle Creek Hut from ridge

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)

A-Frame hut (Traverse hut)

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

Stanfield Hut

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

A-Frame track looking down onto holmes ridge

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

Leon Kinvig Hut

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

Pimelea near Toka

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

Diggers Hut

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

Diggers Hut

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

Makawakawa Stream below Diggers Hut

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

Toka Biv

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

Toka Biv

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

Toka Biv

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

Makaretu Hut

8 bunk hut on the southern branch of the Makaretu river   More ▶︎
Longview Makaretu Awatere Circuit

Longview Makaretu Awatere Circuit

2 Day circuit in the Ruahine Forrest park from Moorcock Saddle 3 huts some tops bush and river travel.   More ▶︎
Makaretu

Makaretu

8 Bunk hut Southern branch Makaretuu river. Visit as part of a circuit from moorcock saddle including Longview and Awatere ...   More ▶︎
Leatherleaf expanses of the Southern Ruahines

Leatherleaf expanses of the Southern Ruahines

Leatherleaf expanses of the Southern Ruahines from Takapari Road   More ▶︎
Track from Takapari Rd to Forks Hut

Track from Takapari Rd to Forks Hut

Cut track from leatherwood and scrub from Takapari Roadend down the ridge to the north of Forks Hut. Track starts ...   More ▶︎