Douglas Range, Kahurangi National Park

April 2011

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April 2011

Tramper Lou Thornley on the Douglas Range, near Yuletide. Photo: Shaun Barnett/Black Robin Photography
The Douglas Range contains perhaps the most spectacular tramping country in Kahurangi National Park – and in a 450,000ha wonderland, that’s really saying something. Stretching between the Cobb Valley in the south and the Aorere Valley in the north, the range is one of contrasts: delicate tarns fringed by bogs where sundews trap hapless insects; […]
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