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Mt Beaumont (2131m) April 2012

View SE from Bald Hill Range June 2013

View SE from Bald Hill Range June 2013

This picture was taken from the crest of the Bald Hill Range NE of Bald Hill. The tussock and low ...   More ▶︎
Top Tuke hut Dec 1975

Top Tuke hut Dec 1975

This four bunk hut is located on the TR in the head basin of the Tuke River a tributary of ...   More ▶︎
Top Tuke hut

Top Tuke hut

This four bunk hut is located on the TR in the head basin of the Tuke River a tributary of ...   More ▶︎
Top Tuke hut March 2012

Top Tuke hut March 2012

Here is a photo of this hut from a different angle than the 1975 one I posted and "major's" one ...   More ▶︎
Healey Spur Feb 2014

Healey Spur Feb 2014

This photo shows the last steep bit of Healey Spur before reaching the relatively easy going of Galena Ridge at ...   More ▶︎
Ivory Lake Hut

Ivory Lake Hut

An old Meteorological Service hut located in a picturesque location at the head of the Waitaha Valley. No toilet. A ...   More ▶︎
Remarkable Peak

Remarkable Peak

This photo shows Remarkable Peak 1790m in spring conditions. It is the tooth like peak centre picture. The pic was ...   More ▶︎
Price Basin hut

Price Basin hut

This hut, which is usually known as Price(s) Basin, is located on the TL of the TR branch of the ...   More ▶︎
Dickie Spur

Dickie Spur

A perfect day on the Dickie Spur above the Mikonui River, looking towards Okarito   More ▶︎
Top Waitaha hut March 2012

Top Waitaha hut March 2012

This hut is an NZFS six bunker that was built in 1968. It has no open fire or stove. There ...   More ▶︎
Top Waitaha hut

Top Waitaha hut

This hut is an NZFS six bunker that was built in 1968. It has no open fire or stove. There ...   More ▶︎
Healey Creek hut May 2008

Healey Creek hut May 2008

A tidy four bunker toward the head of Healey Creek a Mikonui River tributary. The hut is on a tussock ...   More ▶︎
Healey Creek hut

Healey Creek hut

A tidy four bunker toward the head of Healey Creek a Mikonui River tributary. The hut is on a tussock ...   More ▶︎
Looking SW from Mt Diedrichs May 2013

Looking SW from Mt Diedrichs May 2013

This photo taken from beside the trig beacon on the summit of Mt Diedrichs 1084m looks SW over the Hokitika ...   More ▶︎
Mt Bowen from Fraser Peak March 2013

Mt Bowen from Fraser Peak March 2013

This photo of Mt Bowen 1965m was taken from near the summit of Fraser Peak 1166m. Both peaks lie between ...   More ▶︎
Dickie Spur hut & Tuke River headwaters Jan 2012

Dickie Spur hut & Tuke River headwaters Jan 2012

Here is another photo of Dickie Spur hut to go with the one from 1975 that I posted on here. ...   More ▶︎
Dickie Spur from Healey Spur May 2008

Dickie Spur from Healey Spur May 2008

This photo looks SW across the Tuke River to Dickie Spur and the northern end of Dickie Ridge. If you ...   More ▶︎
Dickie Spur hut July 1975

Dickie Spur hut July 1975

This hut is in the scrub tussock transition zone on a spur running east toward the Tuke River off the ...   More ▶︎
Dickie Spur hut

Dickie Spur hut

This hut is in the scrub tussock transition zone on a spur running east toward the Tuke River off the ...   More ▶︎

Historic Price Flat Hut

Slab hut once used for deer culling and possibly dating to 1908. The hut is located next to the newer ...   More ▶︎
Prices Flat Hut (historic)

Prices Flat Hut (historic)

Prices Flat Hut (historic) - in the Whitcombe Valley, Westland. A place full of character, and full of sandflies. A ...   More ▶︎
Prices Flat Hut (historic)

Prices Flat Hut (historic)

The historic Prices Flat Hut is better looked at than slept in. It is a beutiful slab hut, with an ...   More ▶︎
Whitcombe Pass

Whitcombe Pass

This route follows the famous journey by John Henry Whitcombe and the Swiss guide Jakob Lauper across the Main Divide ...   More ▶︎
Price Flat Hut

Price Flat Hut

Prices Flat Hut (6 bunks, matresses, tank water, stove) lies on a small terrace 100m above the Whitcombe River, adjacent ...   More ▶︎
Route Guide: Otira to Mt Cook Village (pt 2)

Route Guide: Otira to Mt Cook Village (pt 2)

One possible route down the main divide from Otira on the Arthur's Pass road to Mt Cook Village. Otira Hotel ...   More ▶︎
Route Guide: Otira to Mt Cook Village (pt 1)

Route Guide: Otira to Mt Cook Village (pt 1)

One possible route down the main divide from Otira on the Arthur's Pass road to Mt Cook Village. Otira Hotel to ...   More ▶︎
Prices Flat Hut

Prices Flat Hut

The new(er) Prices Flat Hut, in the Whitcombe Valley, Westland.   More ▶︎
Waitaha

Waitaha

Classic Westland wilderness: Boulders, dense bush and passing showers. Waitaha River heading for Ivory Lake   More ▶︎
Mikonui Spur biv Nov 2007

Mikonui Spur biv Nov 2007

The subject J H & photographer, not me in this case, Horse G are sometimes tramping companions. They, like myself, ...   More ▶︎
Looking up Mikonui Spur Dec 2010

Looking up Mikonui Spur Dec 2010

This pic is taken from the track on the spur below the biv and looks up past the biv in ...   More ▶︎
Mikonui Spur biv Dec 2010

Mikonui Spur biv Dec 2010

A pic of the biv with Mt Bowen behind to the SE.   More ▶︎
Mikonui Spur Bivvy

Mikonui Spur Bivvy

A traditional forestry bivvy that has braved many a Tasman Sea storm, on an exposed ridge top above the Mikonui ...   More ▶︎
Whitcombe River gorge

Whitcombe River gorge

Whitcombe River gorge, upstream from Frew Hut   More ▶︎
Bracken Snowfield / Wilkinson Glacier

Bracken Snowfield / Wilkinson Glacier

Bracken Snowfield / Wilkinson Glacier, from the Prices Flat - Wilkinson Hut track. In the Whitcombe River valley, Westland.   More ▶︎
Wilkinson hut April 2012

Wilkinson hut April 2012

This pic was taken last month when travelling from Prices Basin to Prices Flat. I needed to head up to ...   More ▶︎
Wilkinson hut reference / Nostalgia / History

Wilkinson hut reference / Nostalgia / History

I came across these hut book entries when searching the archived Frews hut book looking for info to support my ...   More ▶︎
Wilkinson hut 1993

Wilkinson hut 1993

This pic shows track cutters Kelvin and Merv outside Wilkinson hut in 1993. This photo was taken by mate JH.   More ▶︎
Wilkinson Hut

Wilkinson Hut

Wilkinson Hut Whitcombe Pass   More ▶︎
Wilkinson hut

Wilkinson hut

A 1950's era NZFS cullers hut on the TL of the Whitcombe River just over a km downstream from where ...   More ▶︎

Bevernage Biv

Small overhangs that are reportedly next to useless. Located on Seddon Creek near an ice lake below Mount Evans. A ...   More ▶︎

Cave Camp

Located on the Whitcombe Track, on river flats just beneath the confluence with the Wilkinson River. The biv affords a ...   More ▶︎
Route to Healey Ck hut from Mikonui Flat

Route to Healey Ck hut from Mikonui Flat

From the track start on the Flat it's a bit over 2hrs of up hill then 20 minutes down to ...   More ▶︎
Wilkinson Glaciers

Wilkinson Glaciers

Glaciers descend from the Bracken Snowfield accross the valley from the track from Prices Flat to Neave Hut in the ...   More ▶︎

County Stream Hut

Basic Hut on County Stream, near the Waitaha River. No heating.   More ▶︎
County hut & view upstream March 2012

County hut & view upstream March 2012

Here is a recent pic looking upstream over the hut. You can see the hut exterior needs painting. The inside ...   More ▶︎
County Hut

County Hut

County Hut is a seldom visited hut in a remote area. Typically it is visited only once or twice a ...   More ▶︎
County Hut

County Hut

County Hut is of the standard six-bunk NZFS type. There is no fire or woodburner but it is lined and ...   More ▶︎
Polluck Creek hut Sept 2007

Polluck Creek hut Sept 2007

This hut is situated on a low terrace on the TR of the Kakapotahi River 700 metres above the junction ...   More ▶︎

Picton to Aspiring

An aborted alpine traverse. Picton to West Cape, but aborted at Aspiring due to real world emergencies back home. Posted ...   More ▶︎
Mikonui Flat hut May 2008

Mikonui Flat hut May 2008

This is the first of the DOC huts when heading up the Mikonui River. It is on the TL about ...   More ▶︎
Mikonui Flat hut

Mikonui Flat hut

This is the first of the DOC huts when heading up the Mikonui River. It is on the TL about ...   More ▶︎
Polluck Creek hut

Polluck Creek hut

This hut is situated on a low terrace on the TR of the Kakapotahi River 700 metres above the junction ...   More ▶︎
Polluck Creek hut Jan 2012

Polluck Creek hut Jan 2012

A recent pic from a different angle to go with the existing photo of the hut on this site. Polluck Creek ...   More ▶︎