Good work Indy. When I began working for NZFS, Hokitika, in August 1983, one of my first jobs was to tramp up the Arahura with two other workers and check all the huts and bridges, and cut away any fallen trees off the tracks, using the NZFS chainsaw we carried. Our first night was spent in the original Lower Arahura Hut. ( In recent years I slept in that hut again, but in its new site on Mt. Brown. ) The next two nights we slept in Mudflats Hut during rainy days. After checking all the huts in the Arahura catchment, we tramped in rain over Styx Saddle and on down the Styx, passing the Mid-Styx wire bridge en route, a bridge which was removed in the 1990s. Keep up your great work.
Pity about the weather because there's some great views you missed. I went up along that ridge in January 2020 from Grassy Flat and spent two nights in Newton Biv with it pouring down. Fortunately there was the world's thickest book, Stephen Kings' The Stand, all about what happened after the world's population was mostly killed off by a pandemic. I walked out to Mt Brown hut, the track was a bush bash that took me ten hours which was typical for most parties, to find the world was confronting a pandemic. Nice reno to the hut, and the Rescue Orange colour is a bit easier to see in the fog than the dull brown it was then.
Hi Indy, I organised a track-cutting trip for the CTC to clear the track from Lower Arahura Hut up to Newton Range tops. It’s been postponed once, and it’s scheduled for this weekend, but the weather doesn’t look great again. I’ll let you know once the trip happens.
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Good work Indy.
When I began working for NZFS, Hokitika, in August 1983, one of my first jobs was to tramp up the Arahura with two other workers and check all the huts and bridges, and cut away any fallen trees off the tracks, using the NZFS chainsaw we carried. Our first night was spent in the original Lower Arahura Hut. ( In recent years I slept in that hut again, but in its new site on Mt. Brown. )
The next two nights we slept in Mudflats Hut during rainy days.
After checking all the huts in the Arahura catchment, we tramped in rain over Styx Saddle and on down the Styx, passing the Mid-Styx wire bridge en route, a bridge which was removed in the 1990s.
Keep up your great work.
That river at the start is great to swim in
"Westland - Where the good shit's at" - Indy Hawthorne
Pity about the weather because there's some great views you missed. I went up along that ridge in January 2020 from Grassy Flat and spent two nights in Newton Biv with it pouring down. Fortunately there was the world's thickest book, Stephen Kings' The Stand, all about what happened after the world's population was mostly killed off by a pandemic. I walked out to Mt Brown hut, the track was a bush bash that took me ten hours which was typical for most parties, to find the world was confronting a pandemic. Nice reno to the hut, and the Rescue Orange colour is a bit easier to see in the fog than the dull brown it was then.
@@gjcoop5625 we were grateful for the recent track work up there, definitely helped with our quicker time.
Good one Indy. Good humor with the vistas.😂
Hi Indy, I organised a track-cutting trip for the CTC to clear the track from Lower Arahura Hut up to Newton Range tops. It’s been postponed once, and it’s scheduled for this weekend, but the weather doesn’t look great again. I’ll let you know once the trip happens.
@@michalfromhikingisgood3705 sweet sounds good.
Coast is a go!
Can you do TH-cam shorts, I can't pay attention for this long.
@@Phil-p3p I would think someone as ancient as yourself would have good attention span…
Can you make your videos longer, I want to pay attention longer.. 😏🤭 Seriously though, the longer the better! Please🏔️🥾🎒