D’urville hut

D’Urville Hut (Though we didn’t actually make it to D’Urville Hut)

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Date: 19-22 January 2018 (Wellington Anniversary Weekend).
Trip type: Easy-Medium Tramping.
Location: Nelson Lakes National Park .
Author: Lisa.
Trampers: David (Leader), Jue, Lisa, Johanna, Byron, Lucy, Jiwon and Jaleel.

After arriving in Murchison late Friday night and staying the night in cabins at Riverview holiday Park, we set off in the morning to the Jamieson’s Ridge road end, near Tutaki. A relatively gentle incline up Jamieson’s ridge through typical South Island beech forest and into subalpine scrub, found us at the edge of the … Read more

Moss Pass

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Date: 5th-8th February 2015.
Trip type: Medium Tramp.
Location: Moss Pass.
Author: Stuart.
Trampers: Ian Harrison, Megan Banks, Illona Keenan, Kevin Cole, Emily Shrosbree, Mark Pothecary, Stuart, Spencer Clubb.

Like the best laid plans of mice and men going astray, the bad weather predicted for Nelson Lakes National Park meant that our proposed Mole Tops tenting trip had to be altered.  The new trip would be the Moss Pass route going via Sabine and over into the D’Urville. Day One – Sabine Hut to Blue … Read more

Anzac medium trip to Nelson Lakes

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Date: 24-29 April 2012.
Trip type: Medium Tramp.
Location: Nelson Lakes.
Author: Graeme Corin.
Trampers: Amanda Wells, Richard Lardner, Graeme Corin and Adam Clarke.

Three keen punters (we picked Richard up from the Junction Hotel in Spring Creek) assembled at Wellington train station on Tuesday evening, before embarking on the 5 minute drive to the Interislander ferry terminal. John and his group were also aboard for the van and ferry ride. The ferry ride to Picton was fairly uneventful … Read more