Looking up Elcho Valley from near Dasler Pinnacles with My Ward on the right and Mt Jackson in the middle. Photo: Shaun Barnett/Black Robin Photography
Three great valleys, two provinces, three new conservation parks. Canterbury’s Ahuriri and Hunter Rivers drain the eastern side of the Southern Alps; both grand, high-country valleys bounded by high mountain ranges. Forming the core of Otago’s Hawea Conservation Park, the Hunter River also originates from Main Divide glaciers. Shaun Barnett, Pat Barrett and Paul Hersey […]
Mt Somers via Te Kiekie Route, Hakatere Conservation Park
The Tararua’s forgotten traverse
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