A brief rest at Browning Range Bivouac before descending to Grassy Flat Hut in the Styx. Photo: Paul McCredie

West Coast boulder-dash

April 2023

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A challenging West Coast circuit that takes in some of the classic huts and rivers of the area. By Sarah White

The warning on the trip report seemed dire: ‘Don’t do this trip unless you will have good weather for all of it! And you are fit! And you can use a map and compass properly.’ Even Geoff Spearpoint, the doyen of New Zealand tramping guidebook authors, wrote: ‘this country is difficult by nature’.  The Zit and […]
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