Short walks
What to expect on a short walk:
- Easy walking for up to an hour
- Track is well formed, with an even surface. There may be steps or slopes
- Suitable for people of most abilities and fitness
- Stream and rivers crossings are bridged
- Walking shoes required
Walking track
What to expect on a walking track:
- Easy to moderate walking from a few minutes to a day
- Track is mostly well formed, some sections may be steep, rough or muddy
- Suitable for people with low to moderate fitness and abilities
- Clearly signposted. Stream and river crossings are bridged
- Walking shoes or light tramping/hiking boots required
Great walk/Easier tramping track
Moderate day or multi-day tramping/hiking
What to expect on a Great Walk/Easier tramping track:
- Track is generally well formed, may be steep, rough or muddy
- Suitable for people with moderate fitness. Limited backcountry (remote areas) experience required
- Track has signs, poles or markers. Major stream and rivers crossings are bridged
- Light tramping/hiking boots required
Tramping track
What to expect on a tramping track:
- Challenging day or multi-day tramping/hiking
- Track is mostly unformed with steep, rough or muddy sections
- Suitable for people with good fitness. Moderate to high level backcountry (remote areas) skills and experience, including navigation and survival skills required
- Track has markers, poles or rock cairns. Expect unbridged stream and river crossings
- Tramping/hiking boots required
Route
What to expect on a route:
- Challenging day or multi-day tramping/hiking
- Track unformed and natural, rough, muddy or very steep
- Suitable for people with above average fitness. High level backcountry (remote areas) skills and experience, including navigation and survival skills required
- Complete self sufficiency required
- Track has markers, poles or rock cairns. Expect unbridged stream and river crossings
- Sturdy tramping/hiking boots required
- Iceaxe and crampons maybe required at any time of the year
Hard Route
What to expect on a hard route:
- Very challenging multi-day tramping/hiking
- No tracks, very steep, could be prone to rockfalls
- Suitable for people with very high levels of fitness.
- High level backcountry, above the bushline (remote areas) skills and experience
- Excellent backcountry above the bushline navigation and survival skills required
- Complete self sufficiency required
- No markers or poles, may have some rock cairns. Unbridged stream and river crossings
- Sturdy tramping/hiking boots required
- Iceaxe and crampons maybe required at any time of the year
- Alpine climbing gear required from late Autumn thru to possibly late Spring (eg: ropes, snow anchors, harnesses etc)
