Thread: Ruahine Ranges...Tamaki

Heres a few pics







This peak is Takapari



The car park



The slip in the middle is Cats Paw

What is the hunting like in there Dundee?

Havnt hunted there for a good while Rushey. But we used to meat hunt a bit off the Takapari Road which skirts along the top of the range and is accessed from the Western side of the Range. We pulled a few deer out of the heads of the Pohongina but there is a lot of leatherleaf up there in the sub alphine belt. I guess you know what that is like. You cant go under it and you cant push through it. You can though make some progress clambering over the top of it but it costs you skin. I once took out my sleeping bag out and slept in the middle of a mountainside of it once. I never thought I was ever going to get out of the bloody stuff.
Along the top of Dundees picture of the range was an A frame hut I presume it is still there. I think we called it Takapari Hut

Thanks Scribe. How is the manuscript developing?

Originally Posted by Rushy

Thanks Scribe. How is the manuscript developing?

Last Chapter...Funs all over now I can see the end in sight...Hard and boring work to come editing and all that stuff.

Having a few days off and kicking over the traces. Cant get out to fish....Cant hunt in all this wind. All I can do is raise the IQ of all you people.

I dont know how to put up one of those smiley faces but that last one was not a serious comment.

Catch ya 'Rushey'

Good on ya Scribe. Good to see you back in our midst.

Its good hunting up there but like everywere in the ruahines you dont shoot them close to the car park!

Yes its hard work unless your lucky enough to get one on the Takapari Road or the track up Holmes Ridge or a handy one on the creek would be nice.That Cats Paw slip is productive they used too fertilize the grass years ago but its a steep climb.

I've got a mate that had there wedding photos up at the Holmes Ridge heli pad.The bride and groom stood in front of the helicopter,classic.

I took my girl up to the Tamaki picnic area and thats where I proposed too her.Must of been good cause we still married.
She had no idea, we went up there with KFC and a few beers.

Originally Posted by Dundee

we went up there with KFC and a few beers.

Dundee you are a bloody romantic bugger. KFC and a few beers. How will us mere mortals live up to that sort of classy act?

Originally Posted by Rushy

Good on ya Scribe. Good to see you back in our midst.

+1

The forum wasn't the same without you

It seems that you have a taken one of these photos from our Woolshed Dundee?

Originally Posted by BRADS

It seems that you have a taken one of these photos from our Woolshed Dundee?

Yeah I did the car park looked full. Now that the picnic areas blocked off to traffic its a bit of a cluster up there.

By the way does Doug still have any running off the farm?

Welcome aboard BRADS

I can add lots off pics too this thread,I practically lived up there as a young fella. Great times!!

Originally Posted by Rich007

+1

The forum wasn't the same without you

A heartfelt thankyou from me for the compliment. 'Rich'

Originally Posted by Scribe

A heartfelt thankyou from me for the compliment. 'Rich'

You have had many more compliments and respect on other threads on your short silence.

Originally Posted by Dundee

You have had many more compliments and respect on other threads on your short silence.

+1!

Scribe I hope you don't take this the wrong way but in the short time of knowing you over this awesome forum, I'd like to think you are a bit of a father figure that I could always go to for advice. It's good to see you back around the place. And your little personal note inside my book was such a lovely touch, I really appreciate it!!