Longview Hut and Awatere Hut, Ruahine FP, Wednesday 26 August, 2020. Map: BL36 Five cars with four trampers in each arrived at the car park at the end of Kashmir Road. The road was in excellent condition, which was a pleasant surprise as earlier indications had a sea of mud at the Moorcock end of… [Read More]
Longview Hut with No View
Longview Hut, Saturday 25 March (Planned tramp was Longview, Rocky Knob, Maraketu Hut), Ruahine FP, Map: BL36. Banner photo by Bruce Hodgson. The road end signage provides shelter from the rain. Seven of us knew the forecast was for rain and it did just that. We took two private cars out and it was great… [Read More]
Wind is not everyone’s cup of tea
Longview Hut and back down Daphne Track, Ruahiune Forest Park Saturday 23 April 2016 Map: BL36 A beautiful sunny day saw eight of us, led by Johnny Dobbs, heading up to Longview Hut. The track is nicely graded to near the top of the range, and then there are a few wee steep ups and… [Read More]
Longview Hut is getting a makeover from DoC
Longview Hut, Ruahine Forest Park, Wednesday March 4 2015 Twelve people set off for Longview Hut, noting DoC vehicles with trailerloads of firewood ready to be helicoptered to the hut. It was cloudy when we began. The new track zig-zags up the hill and is much easier than the old route. There were a few… [Read More]
A “top” hut in the Ruahine Forest Park
Top Gorge Hut, Ruahine FP, Saturday January 17 2015 Map BL36. For some more pix, please see our Facebook page. The first tramp for 2015 was new hut to visit for me, and a long time since the last visit for some of our older club members. We had put this tramp on the list… [Read More]
In and out of the clouds all day…
Longview Hut, Rocky Knob, Daphne Track, Saturday December 5 2009 Trampers: Colin McNatty, John Gray, Ted Angove, Wade Sawyer, Murray McIndoe, Jude Paton, Geoff Donkin, John Dobbs, Roeland Pootjes, Matt Green and Julia Mackie Awatere Hut, Black Stag Hut and up Makeretu Stream: Trampers: Ray Slavin, Murray Goss, Paul Exeter and Colleen Pereaux It had… [Read More]
Staying one step ahead of the wind…
Moorcock Saddle, Longview Hut, then along Daphne Track, Wed Sept 16 2009. Map: U22 Trampers: Alison Greer, Ken Ross (photographer), Vic Bullock, Kelvin Shaw, Robyn Smith, Peter Slagter, Nolene Blair, Paul Exeter, Gary Bowler, Ron Morison, John Marshall, Manfred Hausler, Keith Moretta, Jeanne Van Den Hout, and Gordon Tapp Twelve trampers travelled in the van… [Read More]
A memory of Happy Daze…
Awatere – Happy Daze, November 19 2008 Trampers: Graham Bell, Gary Bowler, Vic Bullock, Paul Exeter, John Gray, Manfred Hausler, Rosemary Jeffery, John Marshall, Keith Moretta, Kelvin Shaw, Vietta Siagian, Ray Slavin, Peter Slagter, Thelma Tasman-Smith, Barry Motley and Ken Ross (reporter) Our tramp to Awatere Hut then down the North Branch of the Makaretu… [Read More]
