Thread: Advice for a new hunter - Tararuas

Walking the tracks is a good way to start in an area. Set your phone or gps to record your route in daylight and it will be handy when youre crashing through after dark on another trip. Your original idea to do the full cone ridge totara flats and out on the sidle track is a good one if youre quite fit and have some experience of tramping or mountain running. Im not sure what the route from cone saddle through the head of clem ck to makaka ck is like. To get to the flats from the road by first light you will need to leave by 4 AM. A waste of nice bush walking. A gentle walk up to totara flats and sayers hut and back to familiarise yourself with the area would be nice. Expect to see other people up there specially at dawn and dusk. Can you get someone to drop you off and do a through trip from holdsworth lodge to waiohine (walls whare). It would be the same length and extra interesting.