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HINERUA HUT

18/3/2021

 
Ruahine Forest Park, Hawke’s Bay – February 2021
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HINERUA HUT PICTURED IN 2012
In late February, the BCT sent local builder, Joe Eagles, and his team of two into Hinerua Hut. This job was funded using Kaimahi for Nature (KFN), a programme designed to keep people in work on jobs involving our conservation estate and its care.

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HIKING NZ TRACK-CUTTING

18/3/2021

 
Matakitaki and D’Urville Valleys, Nelson Lakes National Park
Lees Creek, Upper Wairau River Area
Fyfe Track, Kahurangi National Park
October–December 2020
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HIKING NZ TEAM READY FOR WORK ON THE LEES CREEK TRACK
​Last year the Backcountry Trust engaged Hiking NZ, whose guides had lost most of their work due to Covid-19 tourism downturn, to undertake several much-needed track maintenance projects in the Nelson conservancy. Funding came from the Government’s Kaimahi for Nature programme.

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BEGLEY HUT

17/3/2021

 
Upper Wairau River Area, Marlborough – December 2020
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BEGLEY HUT
​Built in the early 1960s as one of the early Nelson versions of the S70 NZFS hut designs, Begley Hut lies in one of the idyllic, rarely visited valleys off the Rainbow Road adjacent to Nelson Lakes National Park.

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LEES CREEK HUT

17/3/2021

 
Upper Wairau River Area, Marlborough – March 2021
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LEES CREEK HUT AND THE RAGLAN RANGE
​Because of it spectacular location on open flats with views of the surrounding Raglan Ranges, a visit to Lees Creek Hut is definitely worth putting on your bucket list. The comfortable 4-bunk hut is reached on a fairy gentle 4-5-hour walk up Lees Creek, a tributary of the upper Wairau River, accessible on the Rainbow Road, off SH63, near St Arnaud.

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