Emerging from the Ruahine Ranges onto Mokai-Patea. Photo: Claire Bibby

Family ties

November 2022

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Three cousins follow in the footsteps of their ancestors on a traverse of the Ruahine Ranges and find themselves grateful for the huts and bridges denied their forebears. By Claire Bibby

New Years Eve, 1919, and the small rabbiter’s whare on the steep eastern slopes of the Ruahine Ranges is packed with young people. Canvas has been slung outside as an additional sleeping shelter. The whare is full of smoke from the poor chimney draw, leading the group to name the hut Shuteye Shack. In the […]
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