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Mailbox at Camp Creek hut Sept 2010
Located on the side track just before the hut.
Doesn't look like the milkman has called for a while!
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Looking toward Mt Alexander from above Camp Creek hut Sept 2010
This picture was taken not far from where the tops track crests the ridge. Mt Alexander (1958m) is the back bump in the cloud. The location points ref is the front bump (1795m) which is part of the ridge route ...
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Tarns on the tops above Camp Creek hut Sept 2010
These tarns are a short walk SW along the range from where the tops track emerges. Most people head along the tops in the opposite direction toward Mt Alexander.
The snow flecked peaks in the background are from the left; Mt ...
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Camp Creek hut Sept 2010
This hut is located 3kms up the Camp Creek access track to the Alexander/Kaimata Range tops. A sign at the old hut site indicates a two minute side track walk to the hut. Camp Creek hut is very well appointed ...
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Camp Creek hut
Standard Hut (DOC). Capacity: 9. Created 11 September 20102 hours ago.
This hut is located 3kms up the Camp Creek access track to the Alexander/Kaimata Range tops. A sign at the old hut site indicates a two minute side track walk to the hut.
Camp Creek hut is very well appointed having ...
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Top Crooked hut Feb 2010
JH relaxing with a cuppa outside the hut. Note rata flowering in the background.
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Top Crooked hut
Basic Hut/Bivvy (DOC). Capacity: 4. Created 10 September 2010yesterday.
An ex NZFS four bunker in the headwaters of the Crooked River.
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Jacko Flat hut Feb 2010
An old NZFS hut on a flat in the middle sections of the Crooked River. The Crooked Valley is a lowly visited area between the Taramakau & Haupiri Rivers. The track was re cut in 2009 so that may encourage ...
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Jacko Flat hut
Basic Hut/Bivvy (DOC). Capacity: 6. Created 10 September 2010yesterday.
An old NZFS hut on a flat in the middle sections of the Crooked River. The Crooked Valley is a lowly visited area between the Taramakau & Haupiri Rivers. The track was re cut in 2009 so that may encourage ...
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Saxon hut July 2010
Arguably the tidiest of the huts on the Heaphy Track and with the most interesting interior displays!
(Didn't stay but popped in whilst enroute from Perry Saddle to Lewis hut)
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Lewis hut July 2010
The middle one of the three huts on the West Coast side of the Heaphy Track.
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Meg Hut
Basic Hut/Bivvy (DOC). Capacity: 8. Created 8 September 20102 days ago.
This former mustering Hut is located in a small tussock valley near Cardrona.
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Ces Clarke Hut
12-bunk, architecturally designed cosy cabin overlooking the Grey River valley. Positioned at the southern end of the rugged Paparoa National Park, it's easy to access, and a great place from which to explore the tussock tops.
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Wangapeka biv June 2009
[Also known as Little Wanganui Emergency Shelter & Little Wanganui Bivvy]
This biv is situated in the headwaters of the Little Wanganui River on the TL about 2.5km below the saddle. It is in a tiny clearing a few metres ...
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Wangapeka biv
Basic Hut/Bivvy (DOC). Capacity: 4. Created 8 September 20102 days ago.
[Also known as Little Wanganui Emergency Shelter & Little Wanganui Bivvy]
This biv is situated in the headwaters of the Little Wanganui River on the TL about 2.5km below the saddle. It is in a tiny clearing a few metres down ...
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Buckland Peak hut Dec 2008
Situated just above the bush line in the headwaters of Omanu Creek in the NW corner of the Paparoa Range near Westport. This is a newish DOC hut that replaced a Venturer Scout hut.
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Buckland Peak hut
Standard Hut (DOC). Capacity: 6. Created 8 September 20103 days ago.
Situated just above the bush line in the headwaters of Omanu Creek in the NW corner of the Paparoa Range near Westport. This is a newish DOC hut that replaced a Venturer Scout hut.
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Boot Post Heaphy Track July 2010
This pic shows a tall post adorned with footwear beside the Heaphy Track. Think it was in the Gouland Downs area?
Highest up the post(pole) is a pink stiletto heel shoe!
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Uncle Ray's old tramping boots
These boots date from the late 1940's or early 1950's and saw service in Westland then the Volcanic Plateau/King Country area before sitting in a shed for over 50 years. Guess they could tell some stories!
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Goat Creek hut Sept 2009
A charming hut situated on the TR of the South Branch of the Mokihinui River at the confluence with Goat Creek.
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Goat Creek hut
Basic Hut/Bivvy (DOC). Capacity: 4. Created 7 September 20104 days ago.
A charming hut situated on the TR of the South Branch of the Mokihinui River at the confluence with Goat Creek.
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Zekes Hut
Just south of the army training area at Waiouru, is the Hihitahi Conservation Reserve. A couple of hours walk up and over a high ridge finds you at Zekes Hut, built in 2007. The 4-bunker is real cosy.
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Beeby's Hut
Tidy old NZFS 4-6 bunker near Beeby's Knob, on the south-western edge of Mt Richmond Forest Park. Frequented by mountain-bikers and 4WD enthusiasts. Few folk stay the night. (The fire is really smoky.)
Fantastic view over Lake Rotoiti and Nelson Lakes ...
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Kirwans Hut
4-6 hours up an old gold-mining pack track, is an architecturally-designed 12-bunker. Opened by the PM David Lange (who choppered in) in about 1988. The jewel of Victoria Conservation Park, just north of Reefton, on the West Coast.
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Confluence of Karamea & Kakapo Rivers Jan 2009
This shot shows the unusually low river levels at this time.
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Greys hut Jan 2009
This is the first hut up the Karamea River from the coast end. It takes about half a day to walk in from the road end if river levels are normal but becomes a mission if the river is high. ...
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Greys hut
Basic Hut/Bivvy (DOC). Capacity: 6. Created 6 September 20105 days ago.
This is the first hut up the Karamea River from the coast end. It takes about half a day to walk in from the road end if river levels are normal but becomes a mission if the river is high. ...
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Gorge River hut March 2008
Two sweaty travellers posing on the steps of Gorge River hut soon after their arrival from Big Bay hut. (an 8hr walk)
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