Max Polglaze with his daughter Tracey on their 88km tramp through Kahurangi National Park

A bushman to the core

January 2023

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Max Polglaze lived life for the backcountry. He carved tracks and built huts and shelters, especially in Kahurangi National Park, that have enabled legions of trampers to better enjoy their days.

There are things Max Polglaze did that could never be done today. There are things he built as a park ranger in the 1970s and 1980s that would never get signed off by the bureaucracy and ‘processes’ that would eventually drive him from the hills he loved so much. Anyone who’s tramped in Kahurangi National […]
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