Thread: Ruahine Tops in October. Advice please.

I've had some brilliant hunts up there in Oct-Nov. Ive also been challenged beyond belief and needed all my reserves in the young guy learning what his limits are and then finding new skills and limits kind of way. It can snow out of nowhere and the wind can be hard to stand up and walk. In the days before GPS the fog was a nightmare. The great thing is if you plan it right, you are less than 2 hours in bad conditions from Rangi hut.

Well worth a look along any of the spurs off that main ridge.

Good luck! Its a special place when you get too know it.

Originally Posted by whanahuia

I've had some brilliant hunts up there in Oct-Nov. Ive also been challenged beyond belief and needed all my reserves in the young guy learning what his limits are and then finding new skills and limits kind of way. It can snow out of nowhere and the wind can be hard to stand up and walk. In the days before GPS the fog was a nightmare. The great thing is if you plan it right, you are less than 2 hours in bad conditions from Rangi hut.

Well worth a look along any of the spurs off that main ridge.

Good luck! Its a special place when you get too know it.

We cut a track into the Maungawairiki (sp?) off the track about 20 mins or so past the Rangi hut (on the left). It starts under the high rock pile and gives access to the slips and open area on the other side of the creek. I wonder if it is still there? 40 years ago. Anything to get a deer.

Originally Posted by Tahr

We cut a track into the Maungawairiki (sp?) off the track about 20 mins or so past the Rangi hut (on the left). It starts under the high rock pile and gives access to the slips and open area on the other side of the creek. I wonder if it is still there? 40 years ago. Anything to get a deer.

Its a hard case small world aye. I believe it was probably you who met two of my best hunting mates up there on one of the few trips where me and my brother weren't with them.
You or whoever it was told them of that track and they used the route a few moths later in the roar to sneak in and bag a decent stag across there.