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Trip: Up Hector. Down Hector.

Posted on 17 November, 2013 by Mike McGavinPrint This Post Print This Post

Labour weekend of 2013 is meant to be a three and a half day treat from Otaki Forks, up to Hector and around a loop involving Neill-Winchcombe, Maungahuka and the Tararua Peaks. The weather forecast doesn’t look that great. Some … Continue reading →

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Trip: Heritage to Tunupo (and back)

Posted on 23 October, 2013 by Mike McGavinPrint This Post Print This Post

We had an impressive weekend planned, more or less the reverse of my previous attempt at a similar trip several years ago. Sadly, it failed in a similar way, except this time the method of failure was a pressing sou-easterly … Continue reading →

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Trip: Powell, Totara Flats and Sayers

Posted on 18 December, 2010 by Mike McGavinPrint This Post Print This Post

Saturday night sunset on Totara Flats. This is meant to be a tramping club trip, though really it’s just Éamonn and me. We’re the “social” trip, but I think people bailed on the social idea when it became clearer that … Continue reading →

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Staying in Taihape

Posted on 11 October, 2010 by Mike McGavinPrint This Post Print This Post

I went through an anticlimatic experience on the weekend. Richard, Amanda and I were meaning to get to Wakelings Hut in the Ruahines, starting from the end of Makino Road on the western side, which is about the next road … Continue reading →

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Re-living The Sutch Search (Part 3 of 3)

Posted on 1 September, 2010 by Mike McGavinPrint This Post Print This Post

Following from part one and part two. “It is, therefore, reasonable that the actions of Trampers who become—or are believed to be—lost should be thrown open to examination, and, if necessary, to criticism. When a party that was expected to … Continue reading →

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Re-living The Sutch Search (Part 2 of 3)

Posted on 30 August, 2010 by Mike McGavinPrint This Post Print This Post

This post follows part 1 and is continued in part 3. From Evening Post, Issue 100, 1 May 1933, Page 7: TRAMPERS FOUND IN THE TARARUAS AFTER A FORTNIGHT IN THE RANGES.— The four trampers who have been travelling through … Continue reading →

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Re-living The Sutch Search (Part 1 of 3)

Posted on 27 August, 2010 by Mike McGavinPrint This Post Print This Post

This post is followed by part 2 and part 3. “There are so many possibilities in regard to the whereabouts of the missing party that anything in the nature of “combing the country” is out of the question. The most … Continue reading →

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Trip: Crow Hut, McKinnon Hut and general confusion

Posted on 29 June, 2010 by Mike McGavinPrint This Post Print This Post

Above McKinnon Hut. Getting out of Crow Hut right now is one of the more awkward climbs from a valley I’ve personally had. We more or less slid down the hill-side yesterday morning, persistent rain apparently making the topsoil absolutely … Continue reading →

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Trip: Walls Whare to Totara Flats, and Cone Peak

Posted on 18 June, 2010 by Mike McGavinPrint This Post Print This Post

Near Cone Peak. A few times now, I’ve wondered just how many degrees of separation there are between people who visit New Zealand’s back-country. Maybe a few people know nearly everyone, and the whole network is very closely connected. Maybe … Continue reading →

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