Puffing to the Packhorse

February 2013

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February 2013

Pack Horse Hut offers fine views over Lyttleton Harbour, with its encircling crater rim. Photo: Andrew Lowton
Pack Horse Hut, Banks Peninsula Back in the 1910s, parliamentarian and conservationist Harry Ell had a dream of a network of roads and walking tracks open to everyone. Part of that dream was for the establishment of a summit road from Christchurch to Akaroa across Banks Peninsula. Alongside the road, a series of 14 rest […]
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