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đ€ Back from the Brink: My Time with the TakahÄ Recovery Programme
Ka tĆ« te moho, kia ora ake anĆ. The takahÄ stands, in order to live again. What does it actually feel like to save a species? At 3:00 AM, it sounds like a chorus of loud, prehistoric calls echoing through the Burwood TakahÄ Centre. By mid-morning, it feels like “swimming” through waist-deep red tussock and…
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đŠFerny Gair Conservation Area – in search of the strange dinosaur cave
Ferny Gair Conservation Area – in search of the strange dinosaur cave The story of a 5-day hike in the Ferny Gair Conservation Area including a route guide and photos. Hidden within the rugged terrain of the Ferny Gair Conservation Area lies a mystery that only a topo map and a bit of curiosity could…
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The Garden of Eden and Allah Ice Plateaus – a 7 day traverse by a baby dinosaur
The Gardens of Eden and Allah – a 7 day traverse, from the perspective of a baby dinosaur. A six day hike through the Garden of Eden and Garden of Allah ice fields in the Adam’s Wilderness Area â including a route guide and photos. Episodes 1 and 2 of 3 WhÄia te iti kahurangi,…
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The Garden of Eden and Allah Ice Plateaus- Episode 3
The Garden of Eden and Allah Ice Plateaus A seven day hike through the Garden of Eden and Garden of Allah ice fields in the Adam’s Wilderness Area â including a route guide and photos. Episode 3 of 3 Episodes 1 and 2 here The next day we found that apparently getting off the Lambert…
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Benmore Hut and Sugarloaf Summit Loop – Korowai/Torlesse Tussocklands Park
Benmore Hut and Sugarloaf Summit Loop –Korowai/Torlesse Tussocklands Park The story of a day hike to Benmore Hut in the Korowai/Torlesse Tussocklands Park and then on to the summit of Sugarloaf, including a route map. I had driven past Benmore Station a number of times and had also stumbled across a CTC trip report to…
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Avalanche-Lyell-Bealey Loop – The âTriple Crownâ
Avalanche-Lyell-Bealey Loop The âTriple Crown’ in Arthur’s Pass National Park The story of a winter traverse along the Avalanche Peak Mt Bealey Ridge in Arthur’s Pass, including a route map. The Avalanche-Lyell-Bealey Loop had been something I had wanted to do for ages and there had once even been a race over Avalanche Peak but…
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Cass-Lagoon Saddle Track: Holding on to your Pantaloons!
Holding on to your pantaloons on the Cass-Lagoon Saddle Track A hike around the Cass-Lagoon Saddle Track in Craigieburn Forest Park in early winter conditions and including a map of the route. Hold on to your pantaloons Tony and I found this written on a DOC track marker at a steeper and frozen section of…
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Lake Nerine – Routeburn North Branch and Park Pass, Aspiring NP.
Lake Nerine – Routeburn North Branch and Park Pass A 3 day hiking loop trip through spectacular mountain scenery of the Humboldt Mountains from the Routeburn North Branch, to Park Pass and the Rock Burn. Sidle unpleasantly steep snowgrass and hard earth slopes on the Rockburn side. Our imaginations run wild with this description from…
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Gunsight Pass – a nice daywalk from the North to the South Temple, Ruataniwha
Gunsight Pass – a nice daywalk from the North to the South Temple A day loop hike over Gunsight Pass from the North Temple to the South Temple starting and ending at the DOC Temple Campsite. Matt and I had been thinking about Gunsight Pass for over a year after our trip to the Temple…
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Brass Monkeys, a Devilâs Den and Lucretia – all from Lewis Pass
Brass Monkeys, a Devilâs Den and Lucretia – all from Lewis Pass A 7 day hiking loop trip through scenery in the Lewis Pass mountains Old mouldy monkeys were out and new monkeys were in! I was on a weekâs solo tramp in Lewis Pass and I had been dropped off by the East by…
