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Peaks in the Tararua Ranges over 1,500 metres

Mitre	1,571
Girdlestone	1,546
Peggy's Peak	1,545
McGregor	1,540
Brockett	1,538
Bannister	1,537	(and several knobs over 1,500)
North King	1,535
South King	1,531
Hector	1,529
Mid King	1,521
Angle Knob	1,510
Arete	1,505
Lancaster	1,504
Dundas	1,500	(1,499 depending upon map edition!)
Logan	1,500
(plus a few more without individual names.)

Pain scale 1 - 5

You only notice the discomfort when you look for it.

Coffee or aspirin suffice to quell. The cause needs some attention.

Experience light inconvenience to usual activities. e.g. muscle strain.

Needs some attention but pain can be accommodated. Relieve the cause and prevent it worsening.

Substantial pain. Significant interference with activities. e.g. wounded muscle, sprained wrist.

Needs informed attention, but in the short run, first-aid kit will probably suffice.

Very significant pain. Makes normal activities very difficult or impossible. e.g. sprained ankle, serious wound.

Needs prompt attention, with professional attention in the intermediate run.

Extreme pain - makes you unconscious. e.g.

probably needs emergency medical attention. Others will have to care for you.

Trampers commonly enrich their experience of the hills with complementary pursuits. Photography is the most common. I have not sufficient experience to recommend a guide, but Rundle and MacLean below show results of the masters. The careful union of angle, composition, lighting, and exposure; with of course opportunity and experience; go to shape these masterpieces. Digital cameras now widen the scope of equipment.

Other subjects that may extend our interest, range from the technical, such as botany, geology and zoology; to the artistic endeavours, such as poetry, painting and history (and gastronomy?).

A micro selection of books follows. These will be found in good libraries.

History and general

G. L. Adkin	Horowhenua	orig. Dep. Int. Affairs 1948, now	Capper reprint.
B. D. A. Greig	Tararua Story	silver jubilee publication of the	Tararua Tramping Club, 1946.
Ross Kerr	A Chronology of the Tararua and Rimutaka Ranges		self pub. Box 540 Levin. 2002.
Chris MacLean	Tararua � The Story of a Mountain Range		Whitcombe Press, 1994 (has an extensive bibliography).
John Rundle	The Tararua Book		Millwood Press, 1981.
Various	Traversing the Tararuas S - K		Wgton, T & M Club, PO Box 5068 Wellington.

Geology

Graeme Stevens	A Tramper�s Geology of the Tararuas	DSIR Geological Survey, 1974 (an easily read account).
Graeme Stevens	Rugged Landscape	Reed, 1974 (covers the Wellington region in general).
Hamish Campbell & Gerard Hutching	In Search of Ancient New Zealand	Penguin & GNS, 2007.

Natural Science

George Gibbs	Ghosts of Gondwana. The History of Life in New Zealand	Craig Potton, 2006
John Salmon	Collins Guide to the Alpine Plants of New Zealand	Collins, 1985 (great photographs).
Hugh Wilson	Stewart Island Plants	Field Guide Publications 1982 (excellent drawings and a simple great identification key).

Department of Conservation - local offices

The Tararua Ranges are in the Wellington Hawke's Bay Conservancy.

Wairarapa Area Office and Pukaha Mount Bruce National Wildlife Centre

Kapiti Wellington Area Office and Waikanae Field Centre

Manawatū Rangitīkei Area Office

For conservation emergencies telephone: 0800 DOCHOTline (0800 362 468)

Wellington Visitor Centre

DoC Safety Watch Freephone: 0800 999 005 (a 24-hour service for reporting hazards, fires, unsafe conditions, etc).

And dial 111 for Fire, Ambulance, and Police emergencies.

Clubs and contacts

Several outdoors clubs use the Tararuas as a major activity area. Many of these run instruction courses and offer a safe introduction to the ranges and speedy knowledge of their complexities. Up-to-date details of local organisations, their meeting places and times, web addresses etc, can be found on the Federated Mountain Clubs website and the TTC Wellington Tramping Clubs links.

Other groups complement the outdoors landscape with companion interests, such as orienteerers, deerstalkers, kayak, Forest and Bird, mountain bikers, cavers, etc, and can be contacted through DoC, the www. web, or the Civic Centre Information Offices of your local town.

See also outdoors and Environmental links.

Wellington Mountain Radio Service

See safety links.

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"After supplying ourselves with a pack-horse and a set of carpentry tools for the purpose of boat-building, we started for Te-Anau early in May." [Makes planning a trip today seem a breeze!]

Patrick Q Caples, at the start of his Te Anau explorations.

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