When a storm unleashes its fury on the West Coast, David Short discovers a safe-weather circuit in Leatham Conservation Area amidst a landscape that typifies high country New Zealand: Molesworth country ‘Weather warnings,’ I hear Jim Hickey say. ‘Low 900s,’ he exclaims with unmistakable glee. I watch as a deep low pressure system unleashes itself […]
Mt Somers via Te Kiekie Route, Hakatere Conservation Park
The Tararua’s forgotten traverse
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