Big Hill Station Permit, Saturday November 23, 2013 The Napier Tramping Club was successful in getting two permits into Big Hill Station for the 2013/2014 year. The next is in June 2014; however, we made sure we used the permit in November. We last did this trip in February 2010, and we decided that it… [Read More]
Archives for November 2013
Whirinaki Forest Park circuit
Whirinaki FP, Circuit Plateau Roadend to Upper Whirinaki Hut, Central Whirinaki Hut, back to Plateau Roadend. Wednesday, November 20, 2013. Map: BG38 See pictures on our Facebook page. It was a beautiful morning, a welcome change from the last few tramping Wednesdays! We turned off the Napier to Taupo highway onto Pohokura Rd, drove through… [Read More]
Fabulous views… yeah right
Saturday/Sunday November 16/17 2013 Tararua Forest Park, Waiopehu Hut. Map: BN33 On the drive down to Levin, we saw that we might be in for some cloud. So it proved, with light rain for the most of the two-day tramp. We started from Poads Road car park, and Ted and Paul headed in to Waiopehu… [Read More]
Top marks all around
Kaweka Circuit, Kaweka FP, Map BJ37, Saturday November 2 2013 A full van-load of 12 trampers arrived at the Lakes car park for this tramp. The group split into eight doing the high level circuit and the other four doing either the lower circuit or other fossicking. The smaller group kindly took the van back… [Read More]