Bulls eye on Makarora

September 2013

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September 2013

Downstream from above Makarora Hut
Makarora Hut, Mt Aspiring National Park The problem with spring tramping – in the south, at least – is snow. Personally, I like to avoid plodding through it, camping on it, or being somewhere where it might slide down a hill and hit me. So we looked for a bush track with a nice hut […]

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