Three tramping tops

February 2012

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February 2012

Photo: Dave Mitchell
Bounded by the Rangitata and Rakaia rivers, Hakatere Conservation Park offers spectacular vistas for those prepared to summit the park’s peaks. Dave Mitchell climbs three of the best One of the best ways to view the 60,000ha Hakatere Conservation Park is to leg it up one of the park’s prominent peaks. The three peaks that […]
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