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Title Published Date Hits
Mystery of the moving bridge 30 April 2013 22
Kiwi Burn Hut gets Dulux treatment 30 April 2013 21
Vandals put tramping hut's future in doubt 30 April 2013 21
New Anchorage Hut for Abel Tasman Coast Track 22 April 2013 36
Tararua huts gets facelift 15 April 2013 35
Tramping tracks may open for cyclists 15 April 2013 37
New Zealand Landscapes Timelapse Volume Two 08 April 2013 68
Options for reopening Great Walk 01 April 2013 62
Trampers worried DOC facilities will be neglected 28 March 2013 63
Audits for outdoor education 28 March 2013 51
DOC job cuts even worse than thought 27 March 2013 67
More trampers allowed 15 March 2013 68
DoC announces partnership with Dulux 04 March 2013 62
Wake planned after DoC fells 500-year-old tree 04 March 2013 59
Charge anything outdoors 12 February 2013 75
Tourists post tips to beat trek fees 04 February 2013 80
Trampers want say in who runs Te Urewera 29 January 2013 89
The call of the wild 20 January 2013 82
Blind group on Milford Track ‘an inspiration’ 20 January 2013 89
120-year-old shepherds' hut restored and available to use 20 January 2013 97
Falling tree just misses sleeping hikers 15 January 2013 84
Choppers called in to move trampers 11 January 2013 67
Southern trampers hunker down 10 January 2013 68
Summit Evaluates Value of Outdoors to Society 10 January 2013 66
Locator beacon now a must for trampers 09 January 2013 70
Great risks in great outdoors 06 January 2013 60
120 trampers stuck on track 02 January 2013 75
Search volunteers reject call for payment – “victims shouldn’t be billed” 31 December 2012 64
Club begins hut upkeep role with a spring clean 24 December 2012 72
New ‘Adventure Buddy’ System: Keep Outdoors Adventures Safe 24 December 2012 84
New website launches for outdoor safety 06 December 2012 97
Motutapu helping secure takahē survival 25 November 2012 97
Eruption stops New Plymouth flights 22 November 2012 84
National mapping system enters next stage of evolution 07 November 2012 175
Te Henga Walkway upgrade work 05 November 2012 102
Native birds get greater protection from stoats 05 November 2012 110
Bream Head/Te Whara Track upgrade work 05 November 2012 102
New book from Craig Potton: Shelter from the Storm 25 October 2012 116
Military cuts off Kauri Point track 25 October 2012 101
Major avalanche risk on some Major Tracks 20 October 2012 110
Tongariro trampers urged to prepare 19 October 2012 114
Southern exposure: Our wild West Coast in the frame 19 October 2012 103
Tongariro Alpine Crossing safer for trampers 17 October 2012 111
Endangered Rangers 13 October 2012 119
Instead of Flying, Air New Zealand Will Have You Walk Around the Country 27 September 2012 216
Trampers, climbers group pledges $15,000 to Fiordland campaign 26 September 2012 161
Ability for easements mocks conservation 25 September 2012 138
The commercialisation of conservation 24 September 2012 169
Popular track now much improved 24 September 2012 183
Nepal to ban independent trekking 18 September 2012 190