Description
In the March 2020 issue
Features
18 Hut tales
A tramper of many years shares his most memorable hut moments
52 Ditching the stove
Discovering the highs and lows of tramping without a stove
56 More than a track
How the Paparoa Track has pulled a West Coast community together
62 How to care for your gear
Outdoor gear is expensive. Here’s how to ensure it lasts
Trips
26 See more…
Places featuring the name Carrington
28 Blue view
Fanthams Peak, Egmont National Park
30 Gateway to Westland
The Gateway, West Coast
32 Heads prove a winner
Three peaks in Whangarei Heads
36 A top walk at peninsula’s tip
Coromandel Walkway, Coromandel Forest Park
38 Above the glacier
Rob Roy Peak, Mt Aspiring National Park
40 Double Hut and beyond
Double Hut, Hakatere Conservation Area
42 Finding our Kiwi selves tramping
Enjoying wet boots and friendship on an Arahura-Styx trip
48 Bike the banks
Mountain biking two trails on Banks Peninsula
Gear
67 What’s in my pack
Author and super-tramper Geoff Spearpoint shares his kit list
74 Broken in
Wilderness staff and gear reviewers test their kit for you
Gear guides
68 2020’s best sleeping bags
75 2020’s best multi-day tramping boots
Regulars
4 Editorial
6 Pigeon post
Letters to the editor
8 Last weekend
What did you get up to last weekend?
10 Walkshorts
News from the wild
12 Wilderness word
Enter our crossword competition to win great prizes
14 Outdoor photograph of the year
Enter the 2020 Wilderness photo competition
16 Wild huts
There are plenty of ways trampers can help maintain backcountry huts
22 Wild conservation
Whio find safe harbour in the Ruahines, thanks to volunteer conservationists
66 Wild cuisine
No-bake fries
82 Track chat
Dunc Wilson on circumnavigating New Zealand by bike
