4 Winter 2023 ISSUE 4 BUY PDF CONTENTS Up Camping The Kiwi Way, Winter 2023 ​ Up Featured ‘ Let’s go south for a few weeks ’ ‘How many weeks?’ ‘Eight.’ ‘How about six?’ Greenies on the road : Managing food scraps. Winter's here : Some of our most glorious times camping have been in the winter season. Tips and tricks. Before the cyclone : Freedom Camping Eastern Hawke's Bay, Winter 2022. Kiwi Burn Hut Loop Track : We put it to a family-friendly test: with my toddler (and his dada) in tow, we set out. Self containment changes in brief RV & Camper business services : Self containment, LPG work, electrical work, motorhome work & more. Table of Contents 2 Small town friendly 4 Editorial: The good news 4 One hundred nights a year 4 Winter’s not going to stop Mavis 5 ‘Let’s go south for a few weeks’ 6 Why we chose our Swift Sprite Quattro caravan 7 I am on track 7 Eight degrees of harm 8 Halfway through my 73 days traveling 9 Greenies on the road: Managing food scraps 10 A stove jack 11 It was cold at Mavora Lakes. Plenty of snow around. 12 Winter's here... Tips and tricks 13 Pegs for tough weather 13 Quinneys Bush Family Holiday Camp 14 Get on ya bike 16 Two long blacks and a cheese scone 17 I did it! My very first solo camping and tramping trip! 18 Gold miner Wattie Thompson 19 Before the cyclone : Freedom Camping Eastern Hawke's Bay, Winter 2022 23 Winter at Nokomai Station 23 CampFest — Bulls, 2023 24 Kiwi Burn Hut Loop Track, Mavora Lakes : A family test 26 Waikato west coast road trip 27 Camping as a young family 27 Recipes for camping: Vege Nachos 27 Our morning view, heater on 28 Game: Fill in the grid 29 Kimbolton Sculpture Festival 2023 33 Stop and Stay The Store cafe and camp – Kekerungu (Marlborough) Lakelands Holiday Park , Whanganui 34 NZers go camping: clubs & groups : Life of Van 34 EVENTS — Camping 35 EVENTS — Festivals and show s 36 Self containment changes in brief 37 RV & Camper business services 47 Coffee Time Up Up ​ 1/0

BUY PDF CONTENTS ​ Up This is the story of three types of self-contained vehicles… Bette Cosgrove Up ​ Baby Bear, Mama Bear and Papa Bear campers… and how they all parked up for an All Points Camping NZ gathering and cooked breakfast t ogether one winter’s day. Baby Bear Mama Bear Papa Bear No porridge was consumed in the making of these meals. All Points Camping Club organises regular get togethers across Aotearoa. This gathering was in July, at Featherston School, Wairarapa, for a Matariki Weekend camp for self-contained vehicles. The next Wellington Region APC Spring camp event will be hosted at Carterton Holiday Park Sept 29–Oct 1. More: ckw.nz/carterton-apc Book: ckw.nz/carterton-apc-rsvp cartertonholidaypark.co.nz Editor: Grandpa Bear? Geraldine Classic Caravan Club ©2023 Gary Hitchcock Up Up Three bears and no porridge Click on the gallery for a full size view Baby bear Geraldine Classic Caravan Club ©2023 Gary Hitchcock Mama bear Grandpa bear? Baby bear Geraldine Classic Caravan Club ©2023 Gary Hitchcock 1/4

Tramping the Kaweka Forest Park Up Outdoorsman Dave I love the freedom that carrying an ultralight tent provides, it empowers you to camp wherever your legs can take you. I also love my classic but new-to-me macpac backpack. Outdoorsman Dave Watch the video: youtu.be/Nbvio1Z1RQQ Facebook: ckw.nz/OutdoorsmanDave Up Up Up 3 Autumn 2023 ​ 1/0

Click on image for full view and caption DOC campsites 1: In the north DOC campsites 1: In the north: Fill in the spaces Rhonda Marshall DOC campsites 1: In the north: Fill in the spaces Rhonda Marshall There are more than 200 DOC sites throughout New Zealand, 34 in the north. Over the next issues the puzzles will travel from North to South. Download a pdf of the game In the grid, fill in 15 different DOC sites from the list on the right. One site will run vertically and the others will run horizontally across the grid. The puzzle does not have gaps between the words., eg., Puriri Bay > PuririBay. Billygoat Basin Booms Flat Broken Hills Cable Bay Catleys Dancing Camp Dickey Flat Fantail Bay Fletcher Bay Hotoritori Kahikatea Kapowairua Maitai Bay Otamure Bay Pandora Port Jackson Puketi Puriri Bay Raetea North Rarawa Beach Shag Stream Stony Bay Tapotupotu Totara Flat Trestle View Trounson Kauri Park Twilight Uretiti Beach Urupukapuka Bay Waikahoa Bay Waikawau Bay Wainora Wentworth Valley Whangaiterenga How many have you visited? Download a solution pdf See the solution ​ GO TO Celebrating Summer how many have you visited? DOC camps are not currently affected by law changes Up Up 7 Autumn 2024 , p 42 Autumn 2024 ISSUE 7 CONTENTS PDF BUY ISSN 2815-827X (Online) | ISSN:2815-8261 (Print) ISSUE 4 editor@campingthekiwiway.org

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Summer 2022 ISSUE 2 CONTENTS PDF BUY Up Cycle touring: Part II, Southland to the West Coast Stephen Wood Up Up ​ Up After my ride from Canterbury to Southland, the next step was to continue my clockwise circuit of the Island. I left from Lorneville, in Otago, heading north. Winton was a good opportunity to stock up on a few groceries before lunch in Dipton and carrying on to Lumsden. I researched where the overnight stop might be, and settled on getting to Athol, which was a long enough day, such that there weren’t any cafés or shops open when I arrived. The campsite at Athol was basic but attractive. The kitchen was a small hut with a sink, toaster and fridge, so I cooked outside on my own stove. Part of the camp was set up for campervans, with each site assigned a small hut, with toilet, shower and basin as an en-suite. An early, foggy start in Athol soon cleared and I found snack stops in both Garston and Kingston. I enjoyed the landscape, suggestive of the much larger river that once drained Lake Wakatipu before the Kawerau River captured that role. The road from Kingston to Frankton is one which many believe is too dangerous to cycle, but with less traffic due to covid restrictions and keeping a good eye out for vehicles ahead and behind it was manageable. I decided to head into central Queenstown to look for a few bits and pieces. It was certainly quieter than I’d seen it for years, but still plenty of shopping and food options. Because my next day was going to be a big one, I headed out via Arthurs Point to Arrowtown to camp there. Setting out from Arrowtown, I used Tobin’s track to bypass the zigzag at the bottom of the Crown Range road, but there is still plenty of climbing to do after rejoining the road. It’s a long winding climb, and even though I could ride much of it, a loaded bicycle is pretty slow and wobbly at low speed. I decided that my safety was a lot better if I walked, especially around blind left-handed corners as I could be further to the left, with my bike between me and the traffic. It’s always an achievement to get to a road summit — it was the first time I’d cycled this one from the south. Of course the downhill was wonderful, with a café stop at Cardrona and a relaxed arrival in Wanaka, where I decided to camp at one of the campgrounds to allow another grocery top-up. Next day I was heading off past Albert Town, the first time I’d come across a one-way bridge with traffic lights and a cyclists’ push-button to switch them, and then on to Hawea and beyond. There was a reasonably strong nor’westerly slowing me down. After a lunch stop on the road and then a café stop in Makarora, I headed to the DOC campground at Cameron Flat. Despite some publicity about DOC campsites needing to be pre-booked, so far I have found that you can still just turn up and pay at an honesty box, as long as the site isn’t full! The site is close to the Blue Pools, a scenic hotspot with an upgraded car park. From Cameron Flat it was a relatively short haul up to the Summit of Haast Pass/ Tioripatea. The descent however is steep, and requires care on a loaded bike, including checks for brakes overheating. Once down on the river flats it was easy going until Haast, apart from navigating around several road crews working on sections of an optic fibre link. Although there were camping options in Haast I upgraded myself to a backpackers hotel and a pub dinner. Fox Glacier is a 120km away and I decided that although I can do that distance in a day, that I’d split it into two easier days. The first day took me past the steep bluffs around Knights Point and gentler coastal terrain to a DOC campsite at Lake Paringa, giving me plenty of a time for an afternoon excursion up the road to check out the nearest café, 18km away. An early start the next day got me to Fox Glacier township, where I was expecting another welfare visit from my wife Robyn in our campervan. Because she was planning to shadow me for a couple of days, this meant I could tackle the up and down road to Franz Joseph as well as the next hump, called Mount Hercules, without my panniers. That got us to Hari Hari where the pub was set up for campervan stays and we had time to look around the town. The next day’s forecast carried a heavy rain warning, but I was determined to keep going. We had a cuppa stop together in Ross where Robyn reported that the campervan had a worrying roof leak. I did start riding towards Hokitika, but thinking about both my safety on the road when every passing vehicle was lifting a cloud of road spray, the forecast, that suggested the next several days would also be wet, and that the last leak on our campervan had caused a lot of electrical damage, I decided to call a halt to my ride and help Robyn get the campervan home to Canterbury. I wasn’t sure if this was going to be the end of my ride around the island or not. 9 days riding, 707 km. ​ Tile garden in Hari Hari ©2022 Stephen Wood 1/19 ISSN 2815-827X (Online) | ISSN:2815-8261 (Print) ISSUE 2 editor@campingthekiwiway.org

Summer 2022 ISSUE 2 CONTENTS PDF BUY Up Fishing at Kingston Heather Auckram Up Up ​ Up Secured a magical spot beside the lakes edge at Kingston freedom camp and went fishing. Caught no fish, but enjoyed the serenity. The camp has a slight slope as it is at the base of the mountains, and there are plenty of shady trees. Traffic going to Queenstown was only a murmur on the nearby road. Vehicles must be self-contained if sleeping over (arrive early as it's a popular spot). Day trippers have use of everything, including the new loos. Q’town Lakes. Photo © 2022 Heather Auckram ​ 1/1 ISSN 2815-827X (Online) | ISSN:2815-8261 (Print) ISSUE 2 editor@campingthekiwiway.org

1: Spring 2022 ISSUE 1 CONTENTS PDF BUY Up Issue 1, Spring 2022 Miriam Richardson Up Buy a copy, subscribe for a year's worth of copies, read it on paper, read it here or read the pdf. The choice is yours. Only $12 a copy delivered, $36 for 4 issues. BUY We bring you travel stories, tips, wonderful places to visit, insight into political changes, some solid information, a crossword: light reading, serious reading and some fun browsing. Enjoy Up Up Your magazine 1/0 ISSN 2815-827X (Online) | ISSN:2815-8261 (Print) ISSUE 1 editor@campingthekiwiway.org

1: Spring 2022 ISSUE 1 CONTENTS PDF BUY Up Issue 1, Spring 2022 Miriam Richardson Up Buy a copy, subscribe for a year's worth of copies, read it on paper, read it here or read the pdf. The choice is yours. Only $12 a copy delivered, $36 for 4 issues. BUY We bring you travel stories, tips, wonderful places to visit, insight into political changes, some solid information, a crossword: light reading, serious reading and some fun browsing. Enjoy Up Up Your magazine 1/0 ISSN 2815-827X (Online) | ISSN:2815-8261 (Print) ISSUE 1 editor@campingthekiwiway.org

Click on image for full view and caption A motorhome All Points Camping gathering at Morison’s Bush. Wairarapa, Waitangi Weekend. ©2024 Bette Cosgrove A tent crafted to attach to the tailgate of a hatch back. All Points Camping gathering at Morison’s Bush. Wairarapa, Waitangi Weekend. ©2024 Bette Cosgrove A caravan All Points Camping gathering at Morison’s Bush. Wairarapa, Waitangi Weekend. ©2024 Bette Cosgrove A caravan with an outdoor room/awning. All Points Camping gathering at Morison’s Bush. Wairarapa, Waitangi Weekend. ©2024 Bette Cosgrove A tent with attitude. All Points Camping gathering at Morison’s Bush. Wairarapa, Waitangi Weekend. ©2024 Bette Cosgrove A tent. All Points Camping gathering at Morison’s Bush. Wairarapa, Waitangi Weekend. ©2024 Bette Cosgrove An ambulance turned motorhome. All Points Camping gathering at Morison’s Bush. Wairarapa, Waitangi Weekend. ©2024 Bette Cosgrove A bus. All Points Camping gathering at Morison’s Bush. Wairarapa, Waitangi Weekend. ©2024 Bette Cosgrove Eclectic bunch Bette Cosgrove What an eclectic bunch of lovely people camping all sorts of ways at Morison’s Bush. Wairarapa, Waitangi Weekend. ©2024 Bette Cosgrove GO TO Celebrating Summer ​ Private property. Not affected by law changes. Up Up 7 Autumn 2024 , p 11 Autumn 2024 ISSUE 7 CONTENTS PDF BUY ISSN 2815-827X (Online) | ISSN:2815-8261 (Print) ISSUE 4 editor@campingthekiwiway.org

DUZ GO Up Gary Hitchcock Gary took his teardrop camper to the Hororata Swap Meet and snapped this beauty. “Fantastic night & great day at the Hororata Mechanical Swap Meet. Satisfied my need to go camping & getting a bargain or two. Thanks Hororata. “ May. Photo: ©2022 Gary Hitchcock Up Up Up 1 Spring 2022 Fantastic night & great day at the Hororata Mechanical Swap Meet Hororata swap meet Hororata swap meet 1/1

Click on image for full view and caption Cure for a stubborn peg Cure for a stubborn peg © 2024 Heather Edmeades A cure for the stubborn peg Heather Edmeades I thought people might find this useful — I always struggle to pull pegs out (yes I use another peg, use the guy — I’m just lacking in strength) then I learnt how to splice, and was looking for something to make once I had done all the guys that needed replacing. It is an old steel peg that I bent into a ring using a hammer and vice. Super useful as it is easy to grip with both hands and use your legs to heave out even the most stubborn peg. ©2024 Heather Edmeades ​ GO TO Celebrating Summer I can heave out even the most stubborn peg ​ Up Up 7 Autumn 2024 , p 18 Autumn 2024 ISSUE 7 CONTENTS PDF BUY ISSN 2815-827X (Online) | ISSN:2815-8261 (Print) ISSUE 4 editor@campingthekiwiway.org