Thread: Southern Tararuas

Pretty sure it only 70 days a year without cloud cover.
Marchant ridge was known as the only ridge in the country that was uphill both ways.

Originally Posted by Brian

Pretty sure it only 70 days a year without cloud cover.
Marchant ridge was known as the only ridge in the country that was uphill both ways.

And the odd tree root here and there. Its a special ridge that one.

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Great report. I used to walk in there a lot to hunt. It is a special place but one to be taken very carefully. It is big tough country and most are not fit enough. The weather can change along there very quickly. Some of the toughest country and weather in NZ. Right on Cook Strait is why. If you add venison on the way out you soon find out what you are made of. And take a good book for Marchant Ridge even if it is only your first trip along there. The numbers encountered are pretty common for a trip in the Tarries on the tops at this time of year now. No chopper pressure for a while now. And you are right re the weather. A fine day up there is a wonderful thing. This year it was on a Saturday A long time tramper I knew who could see the Southern crossing from home said it was never clear for more than two to three days. And that only occasionally. I have spent many days holed up in the hut while the weather outside roared. It used to be in the nineties that you saw all the deer down in the waterboard side. It is the other way around now.