Contents:
Ruahine User Group Minutes of Feb 18th Meeting
Manawatu Walking Festival;
Sunrise and Rangiwahia Hut Booking Season;
Ruahine User Group Minutes of Feb 18th Meeting
The minutes of the Feb 19th meeting are attached. There is a lot of information about the Ruahine Huts and tracks, and the good work that DoC and other clubs and volunteers are doing to keep the huts and tracks in good order. Minutes Ruahine User Group Meeting Feb 2018. Also attached are photos which have been shared on the RUG Remote Huts forum. The work carried out on Top Gorge Hut is ‘awesome’. A great hut to visit. Top Gorge Hut Photos-1.
The unlined hut, which has now had a makeover.
Manawatu Walking Festival is being held on March 9, 10 & 11, 2018.
There are twelve inspiring walks for families to trampers.
These include:
– Walk the Sunset Beach Walk starting at Foxton Breach ending with Fish & Chips,
– Forest and Bird guides will explain the history etc of the Manawatu Gorge Walk ending at a cafe,
– See magnificent views over the Rangitikei on the Oroua Tunipo Tramp.
Plus so much more. Bookings essential www.mwf.org.nz
Sunrise and Rangiwahia Hut Booking Season
Just a note to let you know that beds at Rangiwahia and Sunrise huts are currently bookable; until April 30th 2018. The booking system is accessible via the DOC website. People may call the Manawatu District Office to enquire and/or book, particularly if they have an annual hut pass. Annual hut pass holders can make a booking with no additional cost. Use of the booking system will be reviewed again once the season has closed.
The photogenic loos at Rangiwahia Hut
– Have the difference between a booking, hut tickets and a hut pass outlined on signage at the huts.
– Have hut wardens present at the huts at peak times (volunteer hut wardens would still be welcome when paid wardens were not available, and outside of the bookable period).
– Give hut wardens a list of bookings for the applicable nights.
– Include specific columns on hut warden report forms to show who has hut tickets, bookings, annual hut passes or none.
Nicole Dillon, DoC, Palmerston North.
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