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Visit three unique stone huts
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NAMING RIGHTS
Why getting a mountain named after
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WANDER THE WANGAPEKA TOPS
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CONTENTS
MARCH 2014
FEATURES
34 Cliff hanger
You’ve gone too far, you can’t go back
and you’re frozen to the spot… what
do you do?
38 Winning photos
Take a look at the best photos submitted

to the Wilderness photo competition
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ing of Arthur’s Pass approaches, Wilder-
ness looks back on its history and the new
walking track opening this month
50 Naming rights
How prominent outdoor features are
named and why getting a mountain named
after yourself is a matter of life or death
WAYPOINTS
18 Destinations
Liverpool Hut, Mt Aspiring National Park
20 See more
Three unique huts all made out of stone
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2 - March 2014
THE MANUAL
Trips, skills, health, gear
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56 Jollie Brook Circuit, Lake Sumner
Forest Park
58 Waipu Caves Walk, Waipu Caves Sce-
nic Reserve
59 Te Toiokawharu, Waitakere Ranges
Regional Park
60 Hole in the Hill, Charleston, West
Coast
61 Wild Range
Great Barrier Island, Hauraki Gulf Marine
Park
64 Gear review
Four multi-day backpacks put through
their paces
65 First look review
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66 Skills
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your sleeping bag on a budget
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CONTENTS
REGULARS

4 Editorial
5 3LJHRQSRVW
Letters to the editor
8 Last weekend
What did you get up to last weekend?
10 Walkshorts
News and events
14 Five reasons to get outside
this month
14 Wilderness Word
Enter our crossword competition
to win great prizes
16 :LOG3HRSOH
Meet the alpine gran trying to climb all
New Zealand’s 3000m peaks
26 Off the Beaten Track
Making friends and new discoveries on
Kahurangi’s Wangapeka tops
32 Wild families
How learning lessons of the outdoors can
prepare kids for the world outside the hills
33 Wild comment
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In the Mokihinui backcountry, history is
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James Ross responds: My comments
are only misleading if 1080 concentrations
in bait had increased whilst bait application

rates had decreased. As it stands, less carrot
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in the environment. Additionally, less cereal
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cent or 0.08 per cent 1080 concentration
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investigating new GPS-guided ‘cluster’ sowing
techniques that still achieve excellent possum
kills whilst applying less than 1kg of 1080
bait per hectare.
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What did you get up
to last weekend?
Geoff Wayatt reviewed travel options down the
Tasman Glacier
Marceu and Olwen Shulte Leite spent Christmas
on the Kepler Track
Ethan Deuchars and his dad climbed some falls
on Mt Ruapehu
Malcolm Burnett walked the Te Paki Coastal Track
in Northland
Jeremy Chirnside and Laura Duynhoven enjoyed
fine views tramping to Waipakihi Hut
Riley Fitzgerald took a picnic to Lake Alta in
The Remarkables
Pip Craigie went for a Christmas Day hike
in Craigieburn FP
Graeme, Ian, Ken and Richard got into the festive spirit

on Mt Arthur, Kahurangi NP
Caitlyn Thomas tramped to Triangle Hut
in Ruahine FP
Sally, Bruce, Graham, Bruce and Jo walked the
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T
rampers heading to
the Dart Valley can
now walk the entire
track after a huge
landslide threatened to keep it
out of action.
The slip at Sandy Bluff, 10km

north of the southern end of the
track, has blocked the path of
the Dart River, forming a lake in
Dredge Flats. The lake is around
4km long and 20m deep.
For almost a month, the track
was blocked, but DOC got to
work building a new one on the
true right of the river, avoiding
the slip altogether.
Now trampers can walk the
entire track once more, but the
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repeat the disaster of
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ing DOC’s decision to
plough $21 million to protect
native bird species against an
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Marlborough’s entire population of

mohua/yellowhead was wiped out.
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to protect New Zealand’s rare
native species against a similar fate.
Conservation minister Nick
Smith has announced that $21 mil
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lion has been set aside so 1080
can be dropped over areas with
high risk populations, should it be
needed. The money will come from
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DOC spokesman Herb Christo
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choice but to prioritise this threat.
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we will have to defer some other
projects while we focus on this.
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lost a local population of mohua
last time and if we continue with
‘business as usual’ then local spe
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cies could diminish.”
DOC’s Director General Lou
Sanson says doing nothing isn’t

an option: “We’re concerned that
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networks will get overwhelmed if
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bush is using biodegradable 1080.
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the wild within two human genera
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tions — we need to act to give our
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The huge lake caused
by the Dart landslip
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and is rough and muddy, meaning
it’ll take a little longer than before.
DOC estimates that the walking
time between Chinamans Bluff and
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hours, as opposed to three-and-a-
half hours previously.
DOC also warned the new track
will be impassable after heavy rain
because it crosses several streams.

The department aims to improve
the quality of the track over the
coming winter months.
Around 2000 trampers walk
the Rees/Dart Track, in Mt Aspir
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ing National Park, each year and a
further 3000 take day walks along
the tracks.
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T
hose who have recently climbed New Zealand’s highest sum-
mit will be grumpy to learn their feat was 30m less impressive
than they thought it was.
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thought.
The old height was measured after the huge rock avalanche in Decem
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ber 1991, but since then the ice cap at the summit has shrunk.
Dr Pascal Sirguey, the project leader for the research, says global warm-
ing is probably not responsible for this. “By carefully studying photos taken
after the collapse, it appears that there was still a relatively thick ice cap,
which was most likely out of balance with the new shape of the summit
ridge,” he said.
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Aoraki /Mt Cook remains the highest mountain in New Zealand – ahead
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cial situation. The couple had the
heart-breaking job of informing
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they wouldn’t be joining them.
But now they have a second
GLERGIXSLEZIEKSEXXLIQ
peak with climbing buddy John
Price – a challenge that has just
become more feasible thanks
to a grant from The North Face
and Australian Geographic Outdoor
magazine.
The grant consists of $8000
cash and $2000 worth of gear,
which Hersey says will swing
things in their favour.
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said. “Gear, logistics, support
at base camp – it all adds up. A
grant of this size helps hugely –
SECOND
CHANCE AT
UNCLIMBED
MOUNTAIN
WALKSHORTS
Shelley Hersey climbs in south Temple
Valley near Lake Ohau in preparation for
the Himlayan expedition
it improves our chances of success
and tips the balance on our side a
little bit more.”

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climbers have come together for
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the team dynamics are perfect for
the venture.
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April 4 where they’ll have more than
seven weeks to complete the chal
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VMIRGI ERH WGVIIR XLIMV ½PQ EX XLI
New Zealand Mountain Film Festival
later this year in order to inspire
others to attempt similar adventures.
The previous attempt, from
which Paul and Shelley had pulled
out, had to be abandoned prior to
reaching the summit but members
SJXLEXI\TIHMXMSRLEZILIPTIH4EYP
and the team plan for the trip.
“They’ve helped hugely,” said
Hersey. “With hindsight we can
analyse what happened and change
plans and logistics accordingly.
“The mountain’s beautiful
and there’s a lot of Kiwi history
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attempted its neighbour Jannu
and mentioned how spectacular
it looked – it’s incredible it’s still

unclimbed!”
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JUST NOT WHERE
WE SAID
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top! If you’re planning
a visit to Mt Ionia in
Mt Aspiring National
Park to see the his
-
toric Charlie Douglas Cairn
(See More, January 2013)
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The cairn isn’t on the slopes
of Mt Ionia at all. But it can be
found at the head of Clarke
Creek, which can be reached
on a walk up the Arawhata
River to Grassy Flat. The cairn
is one of two that was set up
as a baseline so that Gerhard
Mueller and Charlie Douglas
could survey towards Mt Ionia.


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D
OC has been hard
at work restoring a
popular tramping and

mountain bike track
decimated by snow and gale force
winds.
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-
est Park, Canterbury, is regarded
as a great introduction to New
Zealand’s backcountry, as well as
an enjoyably challenging mountain
bike ride.
But it suffered the double
whammy of heavy snow last winter
and severe winds in the spring.
The result was a track littered
with fallen trees, rough stream
crossings and big chunks missing
from the trail.
This summer, DOC rangers with
the help of chainsaws and a small
digger, have brought the track back
to pre-snow standard and have
even improved it in some places.
Jim Henderson, the ranger who
directed the operation, said they
had to be careful not to make the
track too easy.
“Normally, when we build a new
track or improve an old one we try
to make it as smooth as possible,”
he said. “But we knew we needed

to keep the features that make it
feel like a back country track with
natural roots and rocks.
“The digger helped us immeasur
-
ably and there was some quite dan-
gerous chainsaw work that needed
to be done. The combination of
snow and gales caused the worst
damage we’d seen to the track for a
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There’s still some work to do on
the northern side of the track, but
from the south up to Wharfedale
Hut the track is now clear and the
stream crossings improved so bik
-
ers can ride through them.
“It’s a great tramping track,” said
Henderson. “The gradient’s nice –
there aren’t many bad hills – and
there are several climbs you can do
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makes a great day walk.”
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1.
Sloping areas beside rivers (5)
2.
Native fauna (7)
3.
Lightweight watercraft (5)
4.
Small lump of gold you might be
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5.
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6.
_____ Army knife - handy
wilderness tool (5)
7.
Walks with long decisive steps
(7)
12.
Kaka are NZ native ones
sometimes seen in bush (7)

13.
Appeared from midst of dense
bush (7)
15.
Safety gear used during
abseiling (7)
16.
Had brief rest stop during tramp
(6)
18.
Tense situation - result of
wilderness accident, maybe (5)
20.
What you carry tramping gear in
(5)
21.
Emerald _____ - colourful
beauties seen on Mt Tongariro
(5)
Across
1. Large coarse fern found in bush
(7)
5. Unwanted visitors that destroy
environment like rabbits in NZ, eg
(5)
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mountain area (7)
10. Mountaineer’s carabiner (7)

11. Moved gently and carefully in tight
spot between rocks, eg (5)
12. Less elevated sections in mountain
ranges used as routes (6)
14. Grass-like plants growing in
marshy places (6)
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wilderness (7)
22. Juicy refreshing fruits that are
source of vitamin C (7)
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24. Group of trees growing together
(5)
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bad weather, eg (7)
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PAM HUTTON, WWW.PUZZLEBEETLE.CO.NZ
Hidden Solution:
South Island wilderness high spot (5,8)
January's Hidden Solution:
Pest control
TO GET OUTSIDE
REASONS
in
March

MARCH 2
WALKSHORTS
PALMERSTON NORTH TRAMP-
ING AND MOUNTAINEERING
CLUB WILL LEAD AN EASY
WALK ALONG THE NEWLY
UPGRADED TRACK TO RANGI
-
WAHIA HUT. THE TRIP IS PART
OF THE MANAWATU WALKING
FESTIVAL AND A BUS WILL
TAKE WALKERS TO AND
FROM PALMERSTON NORTH.
CONTACT DAVE:

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JOIN NEW PLYMOUTH DISTRICT COUNCIL AND DOC STAFF FOR A TRIP
TO WHITECLIFFS RESERVE. THERE’LL BE A BUS TAKING WALKERS TO AND
FROM THE RESERVE AND THE WALK PROMISES VALLEY AND COASTLINE
VIEWS FROM THE RIDGELINE TRACK. CONTACT NPDC: (06) 759 6060.
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MARCH 22
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MARCH 29
NELSON TRAMPING CLUB WILL
FOLLOW AN EASY 4X4 TRACK
UP TO RED HILLS HUT BEFORE
CONTINUING TO THE RED HILLS
PLATEAU, EAST OF ST ARNAUD.
A GREAT OPPORTUNITY TO SEE
THIS UNIQUE, LARGELY TREE
-
LESS LANDSCAPE. CONTACT
SUE: (03) 544 9599.
Mountains Safety Council Survival Pack $20
Essential survival items for the outdoors
in one convenient, lightweight and
shower-proof zip-lock bag. The pack
includes an MSC-branded high quality
safety whistle, pack liner, pocket survival
bag and safety information.
www.mountainsafety.org.nz
www.wildernessmag.co.nz 15
TELL
SOMEONE
IT MAY SAVE YOUR LIFE
YOUR
PLANS
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prepare for a safe trip.
Follow the 5 simple rules of Outdoor Safety Code and make sure you tell someone your plans.
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alarm if you haven’t returned.
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16 - March 2014
Alpine gran
Jo Morgan didn’t take up mountaineering
until she was 58. Now she’s addicted
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Aoraki/Mt Cook
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stone, when there was timber nearby,
remains unknown. Mortar and sand had
to be lugged some distance and the small
creek nearby could not have yielded
enough stones, so the hut builders had
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part of Mesopotamia Station. The current
hut, originally built in 1939, features a large
stone chimney and one stone wall, but
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1967 and since replaced with corrugated

iron. Because of the avalanche risk, DOC
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Hut during spring and winter.
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because the New Zealand Alpine Club
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spent three years, and immense effort,
constructing the large but elegant hut,
which was opened in 1949. Ed Hillary
visited it, poet James K. Baxter wrote in it,
and artist John Drawbridge sketched in it.
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Shutes Hut,
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Stone Hut,
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Shutes Hut in Ruahine Forest Park
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