Waiopehu Hut

Not your usual trip report

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Date: 28 – 29 May 2011.
Trip type: Easy Medium tramp.
Location: Tararuas.
Author: Paul Christoffel.
Trampers: Barbara Keenan (co-leader), Marie Smith (co-leader), Anna Lambrechtsen, Oleg Vlasov, WeiMin Ren, Anna King, Ed Churchouse.

This trip report is a collaborative effort written much like a childhood story game. The first few sentences were emailed to the next punter who added their thoughts who then emailed it to the next punter, and so on. This could make for either a very interesting or a very incoherent report! Our tramp began … Read more

The hard way to Waiopehu Hut

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Date: 2-3 October.
Trip type: Medium Tramp.
Location: Tararuas.
Author: Marie Henderson (Photos: Erik van der Spek).
Trampers: Erik, Gareth, Jo, Rowena and Kaya (the track finding dog) and Marie.

It promised to be a wonderful weekend in the sunny tararuas. And for once they were actually meant to be sunny! We set off Saturday after a week of rain from the railway station. On the way up I noticed the higher than usual flow in the rivers when we crossed the bridges… it occurred … Read more