Most of the forest roads in the Kaiangaroa Forest require you to have a permit. At the moment they are not issuing permits so it may be useful to know about these roads that DOC at the Rangateiki office assure ...
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Mount Tauhara is a dormant volcano on the edge of the Taupo caldera (Lake Taupo) and overlooks Taupo town. Tauhara volcano is thought to have last erupted about 65,000 years ago. Eruptions that built the volcano probably involved the relatively ...
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Track to Crystal Biv from the valley floor in the Toaroha, Westland. This track has just been reopened by volunteers from the Permolat group after having been overgrown for decades. Allow 1.5 hours to climb this steep track
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This is an excellent day trip in good weather, or can be conveniently split into an overnight trip with a stopover at Mangaturuturu Hut. I walked from south to north, began at 8:00 am from Ohakune Mountain Road, had lunch ...
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This trip goes up to the Crater Lake from the Top of the Bruce and then comes down via the Far West T-Bar. It is usual to visit the Dome Shelter on the way but on this particular trip it ...
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This is a pleasant two-day walk around the eastern part of the Round The Mountain (Ruapehu) Track. The walk begins at the Desert Road and ends at the Ohakune Mountain Road with an overnight stop at Rangipo Hut. (You can ...
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This is a new track, it has only just been cut through the bush between Urchin and Umukarikari. It is passable with only a 120m section of rough stuff in the middle. This track should be completed this summer. DOC ...
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An aborted alpine traverse. Picton to West Cape, but aborted at Aspiring due to real world emergencies back home. Posted despite incomplete nature following requests ...
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A GPX file of the trip to these magnificent falls. There are some multipath errors in this track around the falls because it is in a confined gorge and the satellite reception was not good.
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This is an overgrown and rarely used track to a highpoint above Galatea. The bush has grown up there but you can still get a bit of a view. From the top it is possible to continue off track to ...
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