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Route Guide: Harper Pass - Kiwi Saddle
The long and famous route over Harper Pass, or Hurunui Saddle, was once used by Maori as they visited the West Coast to trade in pounamu.
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Route Outline: Abel Tasman Coast Track
The Abel Tasman Coast Track is an easy walk along beautiful swimming beaches,
over low saddles, and across tidal estuaries.
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Route Guide: Inland Pack Track
The Inland Pack Track is an
accessible tour of the recently gazetted Paparoa National Park.
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Route Outline: Rees / Dart Rivers
We decided just to tramp in to Dart Hut and then back out. Absolutely
amazing. Definitely a track for the more experienced tramper I must add.
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Walking Notes: Barnett Park Walkway
The Barnett Park Walkway is a short, convenient loop track
out of suburban Christchurch onto the Port Hills. It climbs a
narrow valley up to a cave, which is visible from the beginning of
the walk.
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Route Guide: Northern Crossing of the Tararuas
This is not the usual Northern Crossing from Levin to The Pines via Mitre Flats Hut. Rather it exits via Baldy, Atiwhakatu Hut and the Holdsworth road end. The last day would be very long and should be broken at ...
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Route Guide: Otago Central Rail Trail
This trail follows the path of the
Otago Central Railway Line, which ran from Dunedin inland to Clyde.
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Route Outline: Southern Circuit
Although usually accessed from the North West Circuit, air transport is
available between Invercargill and Mason and Doughboy Bays. Boat
transport is available between Halfmoon Bay and the eastern parts
of the track on Paterson Inlet.
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Route Guide: Kepler Track
The Kepler Track is a recently established (1988) circular track traversing
mountain tops, lake edges, beech forest, and wetlands.
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Route Guide: Lake Stream
The Lake Stream track is a brief
jaunt into the secluded subalpine environment of Victoria Forest Park in
the vicinity of Springs Junction.
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Hope-Kiwi Lodge
2 days. Easy. Return via same track. Updated 4 November 20054 November 2005.
Easy but dull walking along the Hope River, following the line of the Hope Fault. From the spacious hut, you can make a day trip to Charley's Point on Lake Sumner.
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Route Outline: Lake Waikaremoana Track
The broken, isolated landscape of Urewera National Park is a product of recent earthquakes and ongoing mountain-building. Indeed, the lake itself is merely 2000 years old, having formed behind a massive landslip. In 1946 the lake level was lowered 5m ...
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Paparoa National Park Short Walks
The
recently established Paparoa National Park protects the karst (eroded
limestone) environment surrounding Punakaiki, north of Greymouth.
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St James Walkway
5 days. Easy. One way. Updated 11 May 200611 May 2006.
Beech forest, mountain scenery, farmland, wild horses, mud.
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Walking Notes: Manawatu Riverside Walkway & Bridle Track
The long Manawatu River drains the eastern faces of the
Tararua and Ruahine Ranges before bending through the Manawatu
Gorge, passing by Palmerston North, and finishing on the western
coast of the North Island.
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Walking Notes: Pigeon Bay Walkway
This is a straightforward Banks Peninsula walk following,
for most of its length, a vehicle track over private land.
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Route Guide: Macetown Road
Macetown is an abandoned gold town, the lost twin
of thriving Arrowtown.
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Walking Notes: Riccarton Bush
Riccarton Bush
is not so much a walk as a place to be. And compared with some of
the other places you could be, it's not so much of that either . .
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Baton Valley Track
½ day. Easy/medium. One way. Updated 2 May 20112 May.
From Baton Saddle, the route follows snow-poles steeply down to the valley floor through Spaniard grass thickets (not the most sensible or obvious route) to the bog at the valley floor. After negotiating the bog, the track moves to the ...
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Wilkinson Track
½ day. Medium. One way. Updated 3 May 20113 May.
Cleared by DoC in Nov 2011, the lower third of the track is now easily climbed. Above this, the track climbs its way through mixed forest and is easily negotiated.
One creek crossing (at 450m) would be difficult after heavy rain. ... More »
Route Guide: Kaitoke - Holdsworth
The classic route between Kaitoke in the south of the Tararua Ranges and Holdsworth (about halfway up the eastern side of the ranges) is a popular tramping trip taking 2-3 days.
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Martin's Bay seal
After 5 days walking in on the Hollyford Track in March 2010 we visited the seal colony and back near the hut which overlooks the entrance I saw this lone seal sunning itself in the late afternoon rays.
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Heaphy Hut
Perfectly situated beside the lagoon and river mouth. If you have a day to spare there are worse places to spend it.
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Walking Notes: Bridle Path
Until the Summit Road over Evans Pass was completed in
1857, the Bridle Path was the only route available to Canterbury
settlers travelling from Lyttelton Harbour over the Port Hills.
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Lewis Hut
A very bright and nice hut beside the river.
You can ford the smaller river to continue the track rather than backtracking to the turn off point to Lewis Hut.
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The track between Moerangi and Rogers Huts
The whole of the Moerangi Track is of a high standard and an easy gradient
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Rokeby Hut
Rokeby Hut (4 bunks) is hidden high above the Boyle River. Canvas bunks and a woodstove make for a quaint setting.
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