Short hikes (< 1 day)

Kev D · **Reply #30 on:** March 05, 2018, 11:04:45 AM

Looked like a lovely day there

Syncop8r · **Reply #31 on:** March 05, 2018, 09:36:25 PM

It usually is.

Syncop8r · **Reply #32 on:** March 10, 2018, 10:54:26 AM

Quote from: Syncop8r on March 05, 2018, 11:00:15 AM

Railway track on the beach:
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I found out why the railway line is there - it was used for transporting marble from Takaka Hill to the coast where it was shipped to Wellington for the construction of our Parliament Buildings.

SteveC · **Reply #33 on:** March 12, 2018, 11:28:28 PM

Great pics ! Thanks for sharing

Syncop8r · **Reply #34 on:** July 13, 2018, 02:59:36 PM

Cable Bay Walkway

We just did a two hour loop at the Nelson end of the Cable Bay Walkway.

From the beachside village of Glenduan we walked up a farm track:

We reached an airstrip and had lunch at the lookout at the top:

We continued a little further but it looked like pine plantation for much of the way:

We headed back down the airstrip and the track below it:

You can see the track we came up below us:

Back at the car and looking back up to the hill we had just come down:

Aloha · **Reply #35 on:** July 13, 2018, 03:03:52 PM

What a beautiful landscape. I'd frequent that hike often myself. Awesome pictures.

Syncop8r · **Reply #36 on:** July 13, 2018, 03:11:44 PM

Thanks.

Not a bad day for the middle of Winter.
It's an hour's drive away. I live on the other side of the bay. The sun is going down above Abel Tasman National Park which I have previously posted pictures of hiking and sea kayaking in.

zoidberg · **Reply #37 on:** July 13, 2018, 10:31:02 PM

Nice nice.

Who is we?

SteveC · **Reply #38 on:** July 14, 2018, 05:51:27 AM

Quote from: Syncop8r on July 13, 2018, 03:11:44 PM

Thanks. Not a bad day for the middle of Winter.
It's an hour's drive away. I live on the other side of the bay. The sun is going down above Abel Tasman National Park which I have previously posted pictures of hiking and sea kayaking in.

Beautiful country !

And great pics too !

Syncop8r · **Reply #39 on:** December 09, 2018, 12:22:14 AM

Pukeone/Mt Campbell

This is the closest mountain to home and there is a 4WD track up to the top, however my van is 2WD and there is a locked gate where it starts getting dicey anyway, so I parked at about 420m AMSL.

Walking up (not the top):

The top finally in view:

Nice view:

Steep!:

Nearly there:

Syncop8r · **Reply #40 on:** December 09, 2018, 12:25:34 AM

View from the top (1217m AMSL) of Tasman Bay:

Motueka Valley:

Mt Owen and Mt Arthur:

L-R Mt Arthur, Lodestone, Mt McMahon, Mt Crusader, Hoary Head:

Syncop8r · **Reply #41 on:** December 09, 2018, 12:31:24 AM

Motueka and Tasman Bay:

Golden Bay in the distance:

This happened as I started walking back down:

Heading back down:

Dutch_Tooler · **Reply #42 on:** December 10, 2018, 02:19:46 PM

That is some seriously beautiful scenery Sync

, thanks for posting. I need to come over and visit NZ some day. (I'd have already, were it not for the interminable flights...)

Aloha · **Reply #43 on:** December 10, 2018, 02:48:58 PM

Yet again some wonderful scenery. Poor boots. Looks like that one just plum gave out. Possible to repair?

SteveC · **Reply #44 on:** December 10, 2018, 02:53:27 PM

Nice pics and scenery !

Syncop8r · **Reply #45 on:** December 11, 2018, 11:57:59 AM

Thanks guys.

Quote from: Aloha007 on December 10, 2018, 02:48:58 PM

Yet again some wonderful scenery. Poor boots. Looks like that one just plum gave out. Possible to repair?

It's a standard Vibram sole so I will see if my local cobbler can replace it or glue it back together.

BCNZ · **Reply #46 on:** December 14, 2018, 04:54:19 AM

Nice pics!

MMR · **Reply #47 on:** December 14, 2018, 10:18:49 AM

Nice pictures and what breathtakingly beautiful views and scenery too.

This kind of stuff is what I truly miss about summer, 1 day hikes like these.

(Insert joke about Denmark not having any mountains...kamelåså..)

Syncop8r · **Reply #48 on:** December 14, 2018, 10:36:12 AM

Thanks!

Syncop8r · **Reply #49 on:** May 12, 2019, 02:29:00 AM

Abel Tasman Day Walk

A few weeks ago I walked (in my repaired boots!) along the popular Abel Tasman Coastal Track a little and then up the Inland Track for a view:

My walking stick/pole leaning against a close relation:

Reward at the cafe at the end of the track:

BCNZ · **Reply #50 on:** May 12, 2019, 05:54:11 AM

Nice pics!

styx · **Reply #51 on:** May 12, 2019, 11:28:09 AM

those beer glasses are brilliant

Syncop8r · **Reply #52 on:** May 15, 2019, 09:09:50 AM

Hacket Track and Browning Track - Richmond Range

I wanted to walk up Hacket Track as far as Totara Saddle, which is beyond Browning Hut, and back. The sign said Browning Hut was 3 hours away and I only had five hours of daylight left:

I decided to walk for 2½ hours then turn back. I have done the first few kms of this track before, up Hacket Creek:

I then took Browning Track, which follows Browning Stream up.
A light hatchet would have been handy to cut steps into obstacles like these (it was too big to step over):

The track crossed the stream several times (wet feet!) and at one point had a low option and a higher option for when the river is flooded. I took the low track on the way up:

There are cuts all along this trunk as well as up the ramp; at some stage you must have needed to walk on top:

I reached Browning Hut in two hours rather than three:

Syncop8r · **Reply #53 on:** May 15, 2019, 09:27:50 AM

I decided to turn around then as I didn't know how far away Totara Saddle was (I now know it was about another half hour away):

I took the high option coming back, which was probably worse than the low option.

I then branched off on a track which climbs over a small saddle from which I could just see Hacket Hut (centre left, in the clearing):

Behind the hut was a bridge over Hacket Stream:

I was back on Hacket Track and soon reached where I had left off earlier. My ankle was hurting badly and I still had 1½ hours walk to get back to the car. Also, the sun was going down:

There was a plantation next to the track... perhaps Douglas Fir?:

It got dark but there was a half moon and track was easy from then on. The walk back took 3 hours due to the diversion to Hacket Hut and my sore ankle.

zoidberg · **Reply #54 on:** May 15, 2019, 11:22:57 AM

Awesome. Totara to Hacket is part of Te Araroa yeah? It's a couple weeks since I've been up in the hills, getting itchy.

Syncop8r · **Reply #55 on:** May 15, 2019, 11:38:42 AM

It is indeed. I would like to do that section all the way to (or from) Pelorus. And Mt Richmond sometime. I need to do more over that way....
This was 5 hours all up so I'm trying to get some fitness for longer trips.

Gerhard Gerber · **Reply #56 on:** May 15, 2019, 11:59:24 AM

man that looks like fun....

I have to start again, Winter is here and I'm getting ridiculously fat

Downside is there's been several muggings on the local walking trails again, and I do feel a bit like a smurf walking with that .357 strapped to my side

....as opposed to getting stabbed and robbed, with the added bonus of ventilating a smurf