Thread: hunting harkness hut

There is another party at Tussock while you are in there.... its your call but pretty poor etiquette to hunt essentially 360 degrees around them as like you they aren't flying in to catch butterflys.
The other thing you could do is push your trip back 2 days from Tuesday to Thursday and just go to Tussock?

Anyway from Harkness i would definitely consider heading up the Te Rua tops maybe even for a fly camp in the bush edge so you are Johnny on the spot at dawn, i've always found it to be pretty productive.
Head North up valley & then cut up petshop ridge to the west, if you didn't pick an easy one going up you will hit the top & then head South stalking through the saddles & eventually you'll break out onto the northern end of the Te Rua tops, there is a good campsite just inside the bush.

Or spend the day stalking up the creek& stay at the Harkness saddle biv, dropping into Herbs creek from the Te Puke track, the options are endless really....... You probably won't even need to go that far to pick one up if the weather plays the game.

Good luck, its a pretty special area of the park