Thread: Te Urewera novices

My mate and I are planning on hunting in Te Urewera in a couple of weeks
We're thinking about a 4-5 day trip down from Auckland.
Any of you guys got any experience hunting there?
Where are good access points and places to park? we were thinking somewhere in Ruhatanua maybe?

Hopefully all goes well and we'll manage to get a couple animals each .

Get hold of Richard White from Ruatahuna and get him to drop you off through his clearing, it will cost you about $70 for the pair of you.

Walk down river to Te Totara hut, its warm and a nice wee hut. Contact number is 07 3663941 or you can e-mail him at Ahurei Adventures. Richard is a hell of a nice bloke
and knows the area well

Good advice there. Theres also plenty of nice campsites past Ruatahuna towards the Lake. At least with a road end mission you can take a few comforts.

Thanks, I'll contact him.

You wont go wrong with Richard Tim

+1. Hell of a nice guy, in with you if possible
Just don't piss him off

Spend some time on Te ureweras website for permits and boundaries. Don't hunt the Maori land

Originally Posted by Parky

Spend some time on Te ureweras website for permits and boundaries. Don't hunt the Maori land

Is it not all Maori land now, in a manor of speaking ?

Originally Posted by Pengy

Is it not all Maori land now, in a manor of speaking ?

Yeah that's what I thought, I'm guessing the "private Tuhoe land" was meant?
would it be correct for me to assume I can hunt on any "open" area that I want as long as I have a permit.

horomunga youll need a tent all the huts have been burnt down in there wankers

Originally Posted by northdude

horomunga youll need a tent all the huts have been burnt down in there wankers

Do you know if Te Totara Hut is still standing, seems like a good place to go as Chop3r suggested.

Yep its still standing, was down there for a walk 2 months ago

Just a quick update if anyone's interested:
Contacted Richard, and he told me he's sorta closed down his hunting operations for winter, because of this (and the realization it's probably gonna be cold as fuck and pissing down all the time) we've decided to postpone our trip to Te Urewera to spring.
Instead we're probably gonna go bowl some goats over around kings country/Taranaki next week as we got contacts there.

Originally Posted by Tim.G

Just a quick update if anyone's interested:
Contacted Richard, and he told me he's sorta closed down his hunting operations for winter, because of this (and the realization it's probably gonna be cold as fuck and pissing down all the time) we've decided to postpone our trip to Te Urewera to spring.
Instead we're probably gonna go bowl some goats over around kings country/Taranaki next week as we got contacts there.

SOFT!!!

Im taking my wife and 2 kids (5 and 2.5 years) to the lake in a couple of weeks.

Originally Posted by Tim.G

Just a quick update if anyone's interested:
Contacted Richard, and he told me he's sorta closed down his hunting operations for winter, because of this (and the realization it's probably gonna be cold as fuck and pissing down all the time) we've decided to postpone our trip to Te Urewera to spring.
Instead we're probably gonna go bowl some goats over around kings country/Taranaki next week as we got contacts there.

I must admit that the creek down to the Te Totara Stream can get a tad ugly now and then. The locals tell me that there was a big flood down there and shit did it clean up a lot of trees and river flats. Checking on one part of the creek I would say that it was around 2 metres higher than normal. Yipeeeee