Thread: Any ex NZ forest service fellas here?

Originally Posted by XR500

Leatherwood plots!!!
You must be touched in the head
Spent half a day on hands and knees negotiating a very old permolat route completely overgrown by leatherwood just to get at the headwaters of the Pohangina from Howletts

They certainly were a bastard to measure. Lots of leaders and hell on the back from being bent forward for two days scrabbling around inside them. I only ever drew one tussock plot atop the Mokai Patea. That was living. Ruapehu to the north, McKinnon to the south, saw a dozen stags moving around the faces from plot while eating lunch and an after work hunt to boot.

I saw a lot of good country that I’ll never have the time or ability to reach ever again. It was awesome.