North Ohau Hut

Mid Otaki

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Date: 6-9 February 2020.
Trip type: Private tramp.
Location: Tararua Forest Park.
Author: Cindy.
Trampers: Cindy (leader), Phoebe, Ben, Meredith.

Upper Otaki River

Waitangi Day offered the perfect opportunity to take an extra day off and explore a little further in the Tararuas. I had been keen for a bit of a river trip for a while and decided on the Ōtaki Our route was Poads Road to North Ohau Hut, over to mid Ōtaki, then along the … Read more

Ohau Huts

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Date: 7-9 December 2018.
Trip type: Medium Tramping.
Location: Ohau Huts, Tararua Forest Park.
Author: James.
Trampers: Simon (leader), Emily, Tracey, James and Juan.

We started out from Wellington station on Friday night with the five of us in the van. After competing with Friday traffic for a couple of hours we had our dinner stop in Levin – spoilt for choice we all went for the same kebab place for a great pre-tramp meal. When we arrived at … Read more

North Ohau Hut

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Date: 11 - 13 July.
Trip type: Medium Fit Tramp.
Location: Tararuas.
Author: Stuart Beban.
Trampers: Debbie Buck (leader), stuart Beban, Weimin Ren, Megan Banks, Shay Bendall.

The planned trip had initially been to go into North Ohau Hut via the Mangahao River. However the forecast for the weekend was not so good. So plans were altered to a less weather dependent route for North Ohau Hut via Deception Spur. The contingency if the weather was really terrible was to go up … Read more

Mangahao Valley to Ohau

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Date: 15-17 June 2012.
Trip type: Medium Fit Tramp.
Location: Tararua Forest Park.
Author: Alistair Young.
Trampers: Amanda Wells (Leader), Richard Lardner, Rowena, Katy Glennie, Kevin Cole, Steve Austin, Alistair Young.

Friday night we made the long drive from Levin to the Mangahou road end. The evening was cold but very still at the tail end of the miserable southerly which had blown hard all week. Morning saw a cold and very light drizzle, we donned coats and warms and made haste round the lake, getting … Read more