Boundary Stream – Te Rangi Station – Pohokura Rd, Wednesday 30 March 2016, Map: BH39 There was a cool breeze at the car park of the Boundary Stream walkway on Pohokura Rd, so (after organising for Vic and Peter to take the vehicles up to the top of Pohokura Rd where hopefully our tramp would… [Read More]
Archives for March 2016
Mud, glorious mud
Up the Tukituki, Wednesday March 16, 2016 Six of us gathered at Church Road Winery car park, unsure of what the day would bring. A soft rain moistened our coats as we packed into the van. The drive south brought us to the end of Mill Road, where we donned our raincoats and started trekking… [Read More]
March 2016 News
Contents: Additional Tramp Dates Te Puia Hut Federated Mountain Club Executive Extra tramps We suggested that we put some additional tramps onto the trip list, as we were not able to do the tramps due to high winds last year. March 19th – Longivew Hut, Makaretu Hut, Awatere Hut, Moorcock Saddle. Please let us… [Read More]
Lovely views, birds singing, plus ghetto blaster
Rogue Ridge, Kaweka FP, Saturday March 12 2016 Feature image is the newly maintained track up Rogue Ridge which has received a chainsaw haircut courtesy of DoC. Just five of us – John, Jude, Juliet, Rosemary and Ali – left for Kuripaponga in John’s new car at 7am, started walking at 8.20 and got back… [Read More]
New adventures of the Magnificent Seven
Cameron Hut, Kaweka FP, Wednesday March 2, 2016 We were promised clearing weather in the afternoon for our trip up the Ngaruroro River, but that was not to be. We began from the water gauge at Kuripapago on the Napier-Taihape road. The DoC campsite was cluttered with some impressive mobile homes and caravans as we… [Read More]