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Hey team,
The names Hilary, south waikato based. Keen on my outdoors missions and hunting. Just haven't got the people to get out with! Gets a bit dull on your own sometimes so be good to meet some new people and get out to see some new country. Have spent abit of time in the Kaimanawas and Pureora, tried my hand in the Kawekas last weekend to no avail.
This seems like a good forum to get out there with so yeah thats me :)
Welcome, can show you some good possies in the Kawekas next time your down
Were you in a ford ranger ute in the kawekas last weekend ?
Welcome in mate.
Thanks :)Quote:
Originally Posted by jakewire
Yes i wasQuote:
Originally Posted by 7mmsaum
Mean, let me know when your going in next, i'll be there
No problem, did the snow and wind slow you down much
Extremely haha which one were you?Quote:
Originally Posted by 7mmsaum
i got up to the snow but was blowing like anything so decided to flag the hut. Just went down to the flats bivvy instead for a smoko then headed out
Hot swim at taupo and burgerfuel was much better haha
I told you about the warratah track and the hunting around the back ridge hut and biv
Welcome to the forum hilz77. If 7mmsaum points you toward a spot, go there and wait.
Ah cool. How did you guys get on?Quote:
Originally Posted by 7mmsaum
Cheers rushy, te whetu ay. We take the horses up there nowQuote:
Originally Posted by Rushy
Welcome to the forum.
Cheers 😊
What is left there these days? It was a vibrant timber town sixty years ago. The first real job my dad had as a boy of fourteen was herding the wild horses out of the hills up the back of Te Whetu so they could fell the trees and one of my grandfathers drove the locomotive that pulled the logs out to the mill and the other ran the cookhouse in the single mans camp. My roots run deep there even though i haven't been there in decades. Do you go in from the Tokoroa or Lichfield side?Quote:
Originally Posted by hilz77
Welcome @hilz77 ! you will find all sorts of good characters here and the odd bout of verbal biffo!
From the Lichfield end, off Ngatira. I dont think theres much of anything. Theres an old tower of some sort. That must have been awhile ago! Its ready for harvesting again nowQuote:
Originally Posted by Rushy
OH! My poor innocent little ears :-PQuote:
Originally Posted by 300CALMAN
I wouldn't mind a look one day for nostalgia's sake. It has been a couple of years but I am sure I could sit a horse for a few hours if needed.Quote:
Originally Posted by hilz77
Sure thing, it's pretty thick in there now. Popular as with pig hunters. Some good days have been spent through thereQuote:
Originally Posted by Rushy
Does the tower look like the one in the back of this photo? That was my paternal grandparents place on the other side of the swamp. I am the young fellah with the curly hair on my grandmothers lap.Quote:
Originally Posted by hilz77
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The hills have eyes :O_O: :DQuote:
Originally Posted by 7mmsaum
Ah I couldn't tell ya rushy. She's all tall pine out there now. Everythings pretty much gone i think. Theres the old fire watch tower still there off Sutcliffe road where a camp used to be i think?? thats from tokoroa sideQuote:
Originally Posted by Rushy
hilz 😂Quote:
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