Description
In the June 2020 issue
Features
10 Ten things we missed during lockdown
Dream about your first trip back in the great outdoors
26 Step, stab, sting, repeat
A satisfying weeklong journey through Kahurangi National Park
36 The best-guided trips in New Zealand
Holiday locally with these amazing guided experiences
50 Nelson’s bypassed backyard
The Coppermine Trail is an easy way to experience a South Island alpine environment
54 Lessons in home-cooking dehydrated food
Wilderness experiments with home-dehydrated tramping meals
Trips
14 Overnighting at Syme Hut in winter
Syme Hut, Egmont National Park
16 A magnet drawing the cold and weary
Spurs Hut, Te Kahui Kaupeka Conservation Park
18 See more… forks
Visit these six places named after forks
20 Into the tundra
Old Woman Hut, Old Woman Range/Kopuwai Conservation Area
21 A return to the good old days
Cone Hut and the Lower Waiohine Track, Tararua Forest Park
22 Red Hill’s a winner
Red Hill, Korowai-Torlesse Conservation Park
24 Volcanic views on Kakepuku
Kakepuku Track, Kakepuku Mountain Historic Reserve
32 Hooning in Hunua
Mountain biking among the birdsong in the Hunua Range
Skills
58 Wild gear
Patch your waterproof trousers
59 Wild cuisine
Banana bites
60 Wild navigation
Keeping it current, five maps to transform your next tramp
62 Wild photography
A photography guide to glass
Gear
66 What’s in my pack
Ultralight Te Araroa Trail speed hiker Ieva Laucina
67 2020’s best insulated jackets
70 2020’s best headlamps
Regulars
4 Editorial
5 Pigeon post
Letters to the editor
6 Last weekend
What did you get up to last weekend?
8 Walkshorts
News from the wild
12 Wild people
Plein air painter Julia Sternkopf
19 Near miss
Fishing out a Frenchman
48 Wild comment
A Māori outdoorswoman explains why she won’t summit a mountain
74 Track Chat
Walking the Te Araroa with Māori tramper Michelle Campbell
