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August 2013

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Granite tors and frozen tarn, Hump Ridge Track. Photo: Shaun Barnett/Black Robin Photography
Three places to see giant boulders eroded by millennia of weathering I’m a sucker for a good rock formation. Tussock tops are nice, but give me a chess-set of seemingly megalithic boulders stacked on the ridgeline any day. Hawke’s Bay, where I started tramping, doesn’t have many tors, but a stint living in Canterbury introduced […]
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