Winter hike in Wanaka

September 2012

Read more from

September 2012

Fern Burn Hut. Photo: Josh Gale
Fern Burn Hut, Motatapu Station Pastoral Lease It was my first visit to Wanaka and low cloud sat above the town shrouding the mountains. DOC visitor centre staff said residents drive to Treble Cone Ski Field to escape the inversion layer and to bask in sunlight, but I decided to head to Fern Burn Hut […]
Josh Gale

About the author

Josh Gale

More From Wild Trips

Related Topics

Similar Articles

75 top trampers’ peaks

Gambolling in the Goulter

A dark experience

Trending Now

Green Point Hut, Gamack Conservation Area

The 2026 Wilderness Outdoor Photographer of the Year competition

Every Tararua hut reviewed and ranked

The possibilities of packrafting

Ministry of Works Historic Hut, Kahurangi National Park

Subscribe!
Each issue of Wilderness celebrates Aotearoa’s great outdoors — written and photographed with care, not algorithms.Subscribe and help keep our wild stories alive.

Join Wilderness. You'll see more, do more and live more.

Already a subscriber?  to keep reading. Or…

34 years of inspiring New Zealanders to explore the outdoors. Don’t miss out — subscribe today.

Your subscriber-only benefits:

All this for as little as $6.75/month.

1

free articles left this month.

Already a subscriber? Login Now