Thread: Rimutaka Forrest Park

Originally Posted by ebf

Haha, you start working on your permission slip, I'll put in my request.
Did I mention STEEP, think 3 times the altitude gain of today's walk...

Permission slip? I clearly don't need those, you know what my schedule is like this month!! And yeah we'll be sweet, spread it over two days and a few OSMs....

Originally Posted by ebf

Haha, you start working on your permission slip, I'll put in my request.
Did I mention STEEP, think 3 times the altitude gain of today's walk...

Ebf thinks I sleep with some Richard bloke Dougie so really IMHO needs some seriously steep slopes to walk up and down to return to a normal state. Please organise as soon as you can ..

Hey now I think of it, the main orongorongo valley is administered under doc. Only the water collection areas are run by gwrc. You would be safe to hunt most if that main orongo valley on your doc permit. I think once you are in the northern area, rimutaka incline, orongo and wainui river heads its gwrc. Hard to get access way in there tho. WAMS can show you the doc (green) and council (yellow) boundaries.

Btw have been caught out on a few waterfalls in the area as well so be prepared to back track andsidle throiugh acres of supplejack etc. Also if wind is on the forecast watc out on top!

This must be a troll.

It's DoC you need to talk to for permits. Do a search for rimutaka on this and other forums.

+1 on the need for spidermonkey cum bulldozer scrub bashing capability.

Hunting Permits Online

Tx Bagheera, yup missed the most obvious place

That maps shows the Landcare area (no hunting), and includes the Turere catchment, so looks like hunting is permitted there, just no dogs.

Wish there was a hunting area boundary layer on the koordinates.com WAMS.org.nz sites, or maybe I am just to challenged to get it to work

This should clear things up

http://www.doc.govt.nz/documents/par...wellington.pdf

then scroll to page 3

Hunting or discharge of firearms is not permitted in the Catchpool Valley, Landcare Research block, the Orongorongo Valley within 200 m of the edge of the river-bed and within 200 m of the Orongorongo Track (refer to the map for the ‘no hunting area’)

depending on how you interpret it, can still 'walk' throug the area with an unloaded firearm