went on patrol and a couple of hours later i was lying with my leg blown off, my left arm was a mess which got chopped off, double amputee, loads of injuries and flesh everywhere and i wished i was dead. the pain was quite bad and i managed to get rescued and sense then i had been trying to sort my life out mentally and physically. it has been 14 years at it will probably last forever so just do the best i can do with what i have got. i felt kind of ck with what i have got. i felt kind of 0k recently and then you see what is happening now and people ask what is going on in afghanistan and i am trying to stay calm but in reality i think please do not tell me all of this happened for nothing, they are tramping over the ground we have spent years trying to gain the site is a bit of a nightmare. t
Popular Hawke s Bay tramping hut reopens after renovations
6 May, 2021 01:25 AM
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Sunrise Hut, a popular Hawke s Bay tramping spot, has reopened after renovations and improvements. Photo / Supplied
Sunrise Hut, a popular Hawke s Bay tramping spot, has reopened after renovations and improvements. Photo / Supplied
Hawkes Bay Today
Popular Hawke s Bay tramping destination Sunrise Hut has reopened after three months of repairs.
Located in the mid-eastern Ruahine Forest Park, Sunrise Hut was built in 1983 by the New Zealand Forestry Service and is a popular alpine bolthole for day trippers and weekend visitors.
Both the hut and Sunrise Track reopened on Thursday following renovations and improvements carried out by the Department of Conservation (DoC) and volunteers.
Student airlifted out of Hopkins Valley in Canterbury after suffering medical event on school tramping trip
2 Apr, 2021 09:40 AM
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A school student had to be airlifted out of Lake Ohau in Canterbury s Mackenzie Basin after medical event. Photo / Sarah Ivey
A school student had to be airlifted out of Lake Ohau in Canterbury s Mackenzie Basin after medical event. Photo / Sarah Ivey
NZ Herald
A year 13 school student has been airlifted by rescue helicopter out of the Hopkins Valley in Canterbury after he suffered a medical event during a four day class hiking trip.
The male student was tonight airlifted from a tramping hut in Ruataniwha Conservation Park in the Mackenzie Basin after a personal locator beacon was activated at 7.30pm by a group of 30 students and four staff.
Tramping Club encourages children to get into the great outdoors
21 Feb, 2021 10:54 PM
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Posing happily in front of the Mangaturuturu Hut, Tongariro National Park, are the eight children who recently went on a day trip there with the Wanganui Tramping Club. Photo / supplied.
Wanganui Midweek
The Wanganui Tramping Club was founded in 1952 and, unsurprisingly, few of the original members are still active. Though the membership is generally middle-aged or older, it is encouraging to see a crop of youngsters coming out on trips.
Eight children took part in a recent day trip to the club s Mangaturuturu Hut in Tongariro National Park, and there were six on another on a day walk to Egmont National Park. On the latter trip someone did the maths and noted that there was a gap of 69 years between the oldest and youngest walkers.
GO NZ: Sounds like luxury: Cruising through Marlborough
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Peter de Graaf is a reporter for the Northern Advocatepeter.degraaf@northernadvocate.co.nznorthernadvocat
Peter de Graaf
If you want to experience New Zealand s most beautiful places – and I mean experience them, not just look at them from afar – you need to suffer a certain amount of discomfort.
You need to lug a pack groaning under the weight of a week s worth of food. You need to put up with mosquitoes invading your tent, a wafer-thin mattress and dehydrated meals. Don t even start me on breaking camp in the rain or sharing a hut with a dozen incurable snorers.