Masters Shelter

Parks Peak Trapping

Date: 7-9 July 2017.
Trip type: Easy-Medium Tramping.
Location: Ruahines (Trapping line at Parks Peak hut).
Author: Shauna.
Trampers: Antonia (Leader), Inke, Helen, Rohan, Shauna (plus Hunters: Kevin, Chris).

The trip got off to a great start, with an uneventful 5 hour drive north on Friday evening.  We dropped the hunters off at Masters Shelter for their own adventure and the rest of us continued another 10 minutes up the road.  On arriving at the parking place for the beginning of the short 10 … Read more

The second best mountain range for tramping

Date: 21-24 October 2011.
Trip type: Medium Fit Tramp.
Location: Ruahine Corner, Ruahines.
Author: Mike McGavin .
Trampers: Mike McGavin, Illona Keenan (leader), and others.

What better way to spend the long Labour weekend of the 2011 Rugby World Cup Final than isolated in the second best mountain range for tramping in the world? I certainly couldn’t think of a better way: it was easy to wing my way back to New Zealand and head into the Ruahines! I stapled … Read more