Thread: Trips planned for when this is all over.....

Originally Posted by Tentman

I've been walking with my pack each day for a couple of hours and that gives one a lot of time to think.

The trip concept I have in mind now after a bit of scheming is to do "pass throughs", starting on one side of a range and finishing on the other, hitching back to the truck. Pretty easy to start locally with the like of the Princhester, then maybe a trip out of the Ahururi, then if I can find some dumb bugger to tag along, one of the "great" passes next summer (the Copland or the like). I have to disclose that my name on the other forum is "Armed Tramper" - and there is a reason for that!

Those pass throughs sound good. In both the times I’ve recently tried hitching a ride it’s actually been a lot more difficult than I thought it would be, but both times I have been standing in the rain and didn’t look like the most inviting passenger

Originally Posted by Tentman

I've been walking with my pack each day for a couple of hours and that gives one a lot of time to think.

The trip concept I have in mind now after a bit of scheming is to do "pass throughs", starting on one side of a range and finishing on the other, hitching back to the truck. Pretty easy to start locally with the like of the Princhester, then maybe a trip out of the Ahururi, then if I can find some dumb bugger to tag along, one of the "great" passes next summer (the Copland or the like). I have to disclose that my name on the other forum is "Armed Tramper" - and there is a reason for that!

Hitching with a firearm might be interesting too.

Originally Posted by Shearer

Hitching with a firearm might be interesting too.

Following advice from @Stocky I've just invested in a rifle that will take down and go in my pack. I also have 38 first cousins (mother side) scattered about the place so there's usually one handy enough to at least get me to "civilization" (most of them are not in cities or even towns . . . )

I just want to find a landowner with property to shoot bunnys on..

As for big trips the only one I've got set in stone is an "old school" trip through to the interior of the Ruahine sometime in June with a mate. "Old school" being using as much of the old deer cullers gear as we can get away with/find. Swannies, bullers , old 303's, frame packs etc. It will almost definitely be hard and cold but with any luck there won't be many people about and I'll come away with a different experience in terms of hunting.

Other than that, bush hunting winter sika for a week somewhere and maybe tick off some historic huts in the Whirinaki if I can suss out a place to park where my vehicle won't get jacked.