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Tragedy near Kime Hut, part 3

Posted on 28 October, 2010 by Mike McGavinPrint This Post Print This Post

Also see Tragedy near Kime Hut and Tragedy near Kime Hut, part 2. Amelia recently pointed me at a lengthy feature article in last Saturday’s Dominion Post, which expresses a detailed investigation of what happened when two people died in … 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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Trip: Arete Forks via Cow Saddle and Waingawa

Posted on 28 September, 2010 by Mike McGavinPrint This Post Print This Post

Last weekend we ventured out to reach Arete Forks, which lies near the upper reaches of the Waingawa River in the Tararua Range. Rather than take the most direct route, a fairly boring sidling track, the four of us intended … Continue reading →

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The Next Three Hours

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

Last weekend, when four of us bailed out of our trip through Leon Kinvig Hut in the Ruahines, part of the reasoning was the weather forecast. All things considered I think we made a good decision, and it started me … 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

“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 that can be done is to investigate a few of … Continue reading →

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In Search of Esmond J. Kime

Posted on 14 August, 2010 by Mike McGavinPrint This Post Print This Post

Here’s a slice of history: From Evening Post, Volume CIII, Issue 137, 13 June 1922, Page 8: MISSING TRAMPERS Two Wellington youths, who set out to cross the Tararuas last Thursday morning, have not since been heard of, and their … Continue reading →

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Trip: Purity, Pourangaki, Kelly Knight (in Winter)

Posted on 14 August, 2010 by Mike McGavinPrint This Post Print This Post

Last weekend I went out with some trampey club friends, and repeated a Ruahines trip from October 2007, in which we’d gone past Purity Hut, around Iron Peg and down to Pourangaki Hut, then out via Kelly Knight. We’d intended … Continue reading →

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