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More on the Collapsing Hopuruahine Bridge
Today this video became very noticed in New Zealand media. It shows the moment in early September 2015 when the Hopuruahine Bridge collapsed along the Lake Waikaremoana Great Walk, with four people on it. I wrote about this earlier and … Continue reading
Collapsing Bridges
Today’s news about one of the two main support cables of the Hopuruahine Bridge (on a map) giving way, along the Lake Waikaremoana Great Walk (radio NZ, Stuff, NZ Herald) should be seen as very concerning. The consequence was that … Continue reading
Positive News for Cone Hut
Some have probably already seen this, but following my earlier post regarding the vandalism of Cone Hut, Stuff reports that there’s been a positive and concerted effort to repair and restore it to a state better than what it was … Continue reading
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Tagged department of conservation, huts, tararua tramping club, tararuas, update, vandalism
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Cone Hut trashed by vandals
I’ve only just written about what a great deal we’re probably getting on looking after our back-country huts for minimal cost given what’s available, but then this is reported: A historic hut in the Tararua Range, three hours’ walk from … Continue reading
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Tagged department of conservation, huts, tararua tramping club, tararuas, vandalism
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Updated Hut Maintenance Figures
When back-country hut fees increased several years ago, I wrote with some disappointment about how I saw hut fees as being the price of being honest. I still think that, but it’s not something up for negotiation right now. Back … Continue reading
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Tagged department of conservation, government policies, huts, musing, official information act
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Unofficial Tracks in Egmont National Park
Track Closed signs in Egmont National Park. I hope that some of the quotes in Wednesday’s article via the Taranaki Daily News have been printed incorrectly or out of context. In it, a senior DOC ranger, referring to Egmont National … Continue reading
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Trespassing from public land
A story hit the news not long ago, based on a DOC media release (alternative Stuff rendition), where a group of people (labelled ‘hunters’ but better described as a group of dope smoking idiots with guns) have been trespassed from … Continue reading
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Tagged closed land, conservation estate, department of conservation, government policies, hunting, idiocy, kawekas, musing, public access
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Recap on the recent Milford Track accident – DOC’s Review
Kathryn Ryan interviewed Allan Munn this morning on Nine to Noon (Radio NZ National). Allan Munn is the Department of Conservation’s Southern Region Services Director. The interview regards changes being made following the death, in May 2014, of a person … Continue reading
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Tagged accident, closed land, department of conservation, government policies, great walks, milford track, musing, radio, rivers, search and rescue, tramping
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Signs of the Times
Mid King Biv in the Tararua Range. On Tuesday a request went out asking for people to point out “loopy rules and regulations”. I ignored it at first, with the politics involved, but soon after Federated Mountain Clubs asked via … Continue reading
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The Price of Great Walks
Last month an incident occurred, out of season, on the Milford Track. I’ll reflect on a few things before getting to it. In New Zealand we have an enshrined legal right to enter most parts of the Conservation Estate. (I … Continue reading
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Tagged accident, article, closed land, department of conservation, government policies, great walks, milford track, musing, rivers, search and rescue, tramping
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