Traversing around Pt1612 on the Jumble Tops. Photo: Neil Silverwood

A hard little number

May 2020

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A traverse of the Diedrichs Range takes in steep country and classic bivs from a bygone era.

It’s not every day you come across a six-bunk hut just minutes after leaving your car. The sign on the khaki-coloured, Forest Service-era hut read ‘Frew Hut’. But we were miles from Frew Saddle in the Hokitika River and the country around us was farmland, not the backcountry. As we trudged past the hut down […]
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