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Primo. Thank you. Well thats about me for now. Just need to get some miles on my feet.

Thanks for that. Yep not expecting too much too soon, still a ways off fitness. So will prob do a number of practise hikes with the binos etc.

So given they the best high country areas, chances...

Just a post on the safety of Tongariro. Good video.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=inmOwAaGGMc&ab_channel=NZMountainSafetyCouncil

With it being so busy with hikers all year round, I dont think...

Thank you very much. Its quite similar to the DOC maps but you can overlay everything which now means I do not have to go back and forth between the DOC maps and Google earth. So lets take Raukumara,...

Amen to that. IMO need to see them beyond food, of course respect any animal that dies to keep us going, I do that with fish, people spend forever with them, some even just chuck them in the bin...

Ive found so many open spots its just not worth going past central districts. I like the look of the area north off Ruapehu on the Tongariro, does that produce many deer? Then you could almost pack...

Id have thought anyone looking to do this has done courses or learnt from elders etc. All I can imagine is they were under prepared (either wrong sleeping gear or possibly wet gear and nothing dry)?...

Cheers for that. I think I was mainly thinking about the tussocky higher country of around Ruapehu etc. I will go look at Kime Hut after this. What have the peopled died from up there, what safety...

Thanks mate. Yep do intend to use and pay the honesty boxes at the huts. I know a lot of DOC folk and we really are lucky with the work they do to give us access and help keep us semi comforted with...

I think the Raukumara has a lot of maori land as well doesnt it? Is the easiest way to just stick to the Doc Maps to be assured not crossing private or Maori land?

Thank you on the open country,...

Starting to find more places of interest using the DOC areas, finding a likely looking area, going to google maps, then youtubing nearby huts.

Is there anything else I should take into account...

I had forgotten about Ruahine, some peaks there for sure, just looking at google earth. I imagine under a days walk in?

What would be the closest drive in, well one that isnt packed?

Also...

Thanks mate, still remember the basics. Its a lot like fishing in some ways with the twilight hours etc.

I guess what Im trying to do, given Im in Auck, is narrow down where Red deer and Sika are...

The SI is a glassers paradise, where the NI tends to largely be thick bush. I really am jealous of the open mountain peaks in the SI.

Been out for 15 years, overseas, been underwater shooting....