Thread: Reminiscing in the Ruahines

Originally Posted by video hunter

Been there once but that climb over that hill never appealed to me at all.
However what are the deer numbers like now say from Lake Colenso through to Ruahine Corner hut

Plenty of animals near Ruahine Corner even though its had a couple of 1080 drops in recent years. They would come in from the nearby private land .
Last time i was at lake colenso would have been ten years ago and we found it a bit lean on animal numbers but there had been some WARO going on we found out later.

Green is DOC land (public)
Not green is private….







I remember reading a Philip Holden book as a young fella and it mentioning a rabitors hut on route to his block, always wondered if this was it? It’s in what’s called “Rabitors cottage reserve”

Had wondered if that was Bruce hut, obviously not….. the mystery continues!

Originally Posted by Sika 8

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I remember reading a Philip Holden book as a young fella and it mentioning a rabitors hut on route to his block, always wondered if this was it? It’s in what’s called “Rabitors cottage reserve”

Had wondered if that was Bruce hut, obviously not….. the mystery continues!

I have never heard of the "Rabitors cottage reserve" but from those photos it looks like the Miracle biv, it goes back to the culling days !. A neat spot

Originally Posted by 30late

Plenty of animals near Ruahine Corner even though its had a couple of 1080 drops in recent years. They would come in from the nearby private land .
Last time i was at lake colenso would have been ten years ago and we found it a bit lean on animal numbers but there had been some WARO going on we found out later.

The Colenso area has quite a bit of limestone in it. Which makes the base of any slip VERY fertile. Was always good pickings if you knew the areas to hunt. Shot my first 8 pointer in there on the shores of Lake Colenso. Carried all the meat out. 55 kg pack for 7 hours if my knees remember right. The stupid things we did in our 20's.