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Comet Hut - still there and looking good.
Comet Hut appears to have a new name...
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Distance: less than 100m away
Not sure of background story here. The start of a nationwide renaming program perhaps?
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Comet Hut
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Basic Hut/Bivvy (DOC). Capacity: 4.
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Distance: less than 100m away
Comet hut (sleeps 4, tank water) is classed as a basic hut / biv, but is comfortable and of a ...
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Walking the length of the Ruahines
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Distance: less than 100m 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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Comet Hut
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Distance: less than 100m away
A small hut in the Southern Kawekas. Can be driven to, but is also on the track between Shutes Hut ...
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The beautiful Taruarau River
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Distance: 3.7km away
The Taruarau runs through the northern Ruahines before joining the Ngaruroro. Great fishing, swimming and the clearest river water I've ...
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Shutes Hut
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Standard Hut (DOC). Capacity: 4.
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Distance: 4.6km away
Set in a large clearing, this 1920’s stone-built hut is the best of the Ruahines. Built and inhabited for many ...
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Shute's Hut (Ruahines) interior
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Distance: 4.6km away
In great condition for an old girl, and the hut books make fascinating reading. Shame about the assorted rubbish left ...
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Manuka Slat beds
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Distance: 4.6km away
Inside shutes hut these are just about more comfortable than the new age slat beds we use today
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Shutes Hut
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Distance: 4.6km away
4 bunk hut in the Northern Ruahines built in 1920 comming up to 100 years old very comfy Manuka poled ...
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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: 4.9km 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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Ruahine Forest Park
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Conservation Park. 932.60km2.
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Distance: 6.7km away
A slim park running along the Ruahine Range from the Manawatu Gorge to the southernmost point of Kaweka Forest Park ...
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Taruarau Valley
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Distance: 7.2km away
Taruarau Valley from pt 1183 (ridgeline above Diane's Hut)
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The Kaweka Main Range - a NS traverse
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5 – 10 days. Easy/medium. One way.
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Distance: 7.8km away
A Kaimanawa-Kaweka traverse from Rangataiki to the Gentle Annie (Napier-Taihape) summit.
5-10 days of good track-tramping through the beech & manuka ...
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Diane's Hut
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Standard Hut (DOC). Capacity: 6.
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Distance: 8.0km away
Diane's Hut (sleeps 6, wood burning stove, firewood available in locality, stream water) is located on a stony bench just ...
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Kaweka Main Ridge - NS Traverse
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Distance: 8.1km away
A north-south trip down the main divide through the Kaimanawas and Kawekas.
The east-west watershed actually runs through private land to ...
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Madpom's Kaimanawa-Kaweka NS traverse
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Distance: 8.1km away
A north-south trip down the main range through the Kaimanawas and Kawekas.
See the associated route guide (track) for details
This GPX ...
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Kuripapango
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Distance: 8.8km away
Kuripapango and the Ngaruroro from Kuripapango Peak
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Circumnavigating the Kiwi
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4 – 5 days. Medium. Loop track.
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Distance: 9.8km away
About a 4 day trip in the Kaweka Forest Park. I called it this because the route travels around the ...
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Circumnavigating the Kiwi
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Distance: 9.8km away
A 4-5 day trip in the Kaweka Forest Park
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