Tarawera Roar trip

[Happy]

Sun 21st on the way

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Few hours later cross the river

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Few Ks and views later

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And found the hut !!

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Nice and early arrival time so what else to do but go for a walk.
Plenty of sign and found a hind on a slip which we watched for a while before deciding the retrive would be near impossible so back to the hut and an early night

Next day quick ride to a ridge and the roar was well on .Stags being noisy in all directions.
Found this in the middle of no where.

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Also an old deer trap not far away . Stalked a couple of stags till we got busted off after quite a lot of work (read heaps ha ha ) then late arvo back to base

Next day headed back into same zone. Big climb up to the tops.

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Awesome place flat open stalking with sign everywhere

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Got onto a heap of noises in all directions and yep busted again ! ! It sounded like a
Train smash going past. Blink and you missed it
So we wandered a wee way further and then crash bang Porky pig dropped in (and out)
Fat little thing

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Not that light either to tell the truth.
Back to base to hang it and relax .

On the way the next story started

Came past this slip.

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150 or so meters across the river. A healthy spiker didn't know we existed.
Stumpy was ready and did his part

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Off the shoulder bang and he dropped real hard and we watched as he got hung up then slid past then hung up then slid past till bingo a solid thump in to something

Oh oh. That's a long way to the river ford then a big walk. GPS the spot and away we went

Left the quad over the ford then walked down the river

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Then down some more

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Then down some more

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Then down some more

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Till you guessed it further again

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And finally.

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By now we had a one and half hour walk just to get to the quad
Took the back half and beat the feet to arrive back at base after dark.

Next minute when telling the guys wher it came from I got promptly advised that 50 mtrs from the shooting point there was a track down the cliffs to within 50 meters of the shot
Bugger . So next morn I went down there and got the front half and so ended up with a lot of great meat in the safe.

And that was it. The other guys did very well we all chased it pretty hard and these were the rest of the results

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Great four days great company great results

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[Rushy]

Brilliant Happy. I am wearing Envious this morning.

[P38]

Good work and a very good report.

Bugger about the long walk for the recovery, bet you won't get caught like that again in this area.

I've done that myself in unfamiliar country ...... more than once

But it all adds to the adventure of the trip.

Cheers
Pete

[Rushy]

Good to see you sporting a beard Happy. Are you keeping that?

[Neckshot]

Good write up. Weather and area looks dry and pleasant. Pig was in very good nick

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[Packhorse]

Cool story bro..


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[Sakokid]

Choice write up happy. Nice looking patch of bush. Excellent posting of pics. Thanks for sharing.

[Happy]

Good to see you sporting a beard Happy. Are you keeping that?

My lovely partner not that keen on it. So of course I am !!

[pengy]

Nice report there Happy, and much shorter than the verbal version I got the other night
Glad you had a good trip mate. Hopefully Figjam didn't do his usual sleepwalking trick

[MUCKO]

Awesome write up mate, looks like a neat place.