7 Autumn 2024 7 Autumn 2024 BUY AUTHOR INDEX AUTHORS 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. Up Up 7 Autumn 2024 , p 11

10 summer 2024 10 summer 2024 BUY AUTHOR INDEX AUTHORS Click on image for full view and caption as the sun was going down STOP and STAY A roof-top tent M Richardson A roof-top tent captured at the Ōtaki Rivermouth freedom camp as the sun was going down. Kāpiti. October. ◊ ©2024 M Richardson Up Up 10 summer 2024 , p 13

11 autumn 2025 11 autumn 2025 BUY AUTHOR INDEX AUTHORS Click on image for full view and caption Brian and Rosie ©2025 Maggie O’Rourke The entrance to Rosie and Brian’s ©2025 Maggie O’Rourke The vege shop at Rosie and Brian’s ©2025 Maggie O’Rourke Rosie and Brian’s ©2025 Maggie O’Rourke Rosie and Brian’s ©2025 Maggie O’Rourke Brian and Rosie ©2025 Maggie O’Rourke Butchers Pool ©2025 Maggie O’Rourke STOP and STAY Rosie and Brian’s Maggie O’Rourke What a hidden gem for a POP. I now know why it was recommended to me by members. Is it worth staying here? 100% yes! When I rang to book my stay I got Brian on the phone, with a huge welcome and the directions of 2 yellow vegetable signs and where to park in the 2nd paddock with the caravans. Of course his directions were spot on, but I still managed to overshoot the drive — if you’re heading either way and see the Reporoa sign you’ve gone too far. I tell you, what a welcome! I think why people stay is due to our lovely welcoming hosts Rosie and Brian. They have been operating this site in their paddocks for 8 years, back then it was a gold coin to stay and to help campers out. Brian is a master grower, not bad for 79, 80 this year. Their market vegetable shop and Rosie’s knitted clowns are for sale for cash only. It’s been a delight to stay here for a week learning about our hosts and having homegrown fruit and veges on the doorstep. People travel from Taupo to get their fresh produce here. Though not classed as organic with a certificate, it’s pretty close without that label attached. The vege shop is open Tuesday to Saturday from 8am– 5pm-ish. So what does this POP offer us? Well where does one start? The longer I stayed more I discovered. The cost is $5 per unit per night. You need to be fully self-contained. Tents are welcome, but you need your own toilet. Generators are allowed but please be considerate. Vege shop is open to pay 7 days a week please put money in blue container if they are not in the house or garden. Open year round and no time limit on your stay. Pumice ground for winter stay overs. Potable water. Book exchange. Shelter hut and stage with a piano and couch. Compost bin. Fire pit and bbq area —firewood is available for a donation. Dogs welcome, on a lead. All ages and groups welcome (groups: book in advance). Members and non members welcome. Book your spot by contacting them by phone but please be considerate and don’t ring too late. Nearest dump stations: Rotorua, Wairakei BP (often blocked), Taupo and Kinloch. What’s in the area Fishing at the bridge or by boat on the Waikato River (Brian knows all the best spots); shopping or tourist activities in either Taupo, Rotorua or even the mountain. If you go to bookme.co.nz you may get a bargain of 20–90% off activities and food. Butchers Pool The best kept secret in the area is 19km away, towards Rotorua: Butchers Pool, a free thermal pool. It’s so secret that you think the Google Maps are wrong as there is no sign, but someone’s house numbers are on the fence. It seems the locals don’t want you to know their secret and the sign often disappears. Coming into the dirt road is like a tankers track narrow and rough, me poor girl got shook up a bit (the bus not me); I was praying that no-one took us on coming the other way as there is no room to pass. Toilets, changing rooms and rubbish bins are onsite. Hot thermal pools according to my thermometer sit between 40–42°C. Beware when you climb in as the steps are slippery and pay attention to the signs saying not to put your head under (to avoid bacterial meningitis, a danger at all natural hot pools). Reporoa is 21km away. Another delight. Reporoa Valley Traders & Post Shop; Awaken cafe (8am–5pm Mon–Fri), I highly recommend their coffee and food and the staff are so welcoming and helpful — I ended up asking umpteen questions on the area. The op shop behind the playground on the main street is open 11am–4pm Thursday only. There is a fish and chip shop (11am–7pm, every day). Bake House (5am–5pm/6pm); Reporoa Food Market plus Lotto (7.30am–6.30pm, every day.) The Woolshed Tavern offers drinks, meals, a bottle store and takeaway meals (11am–8pm or 10pm, every day); there is a car mechanic, a tyre shop, police, health centre, vet, and playground. Though Taupo is the same distance from Rosie and Brian’s as Reporoa, Reporoa is not as busy, you can find a carpark, find a seat at the cafe and you can relax way more. Bliss. Plus the Butchers Pool is free just up the road. Up Up 11 autumn 2025 , p 31

2 Summer 2022 2 Summer 2022 BUY AUTHOR INDEX AUTHORS Click on image for full view and caption A dump mate Use our Dump Mate! Emptying the cassette with a Dump Mate, is a very quick and clean operation. Silicone grease CRC silicon grease for the rubber seals. A DIY tool for opening the cassette You can take the top right out of the cassette to give it a really good clean inside. Dont leave it behind Leave the Dump Mate bag in your cassette locker to remind you not to leave your Dump Mate behind. Hints and tips on toilet cassettes Heather McMurdo Through our own experience, and also from talking to many people while demonstrating and selling our Dump Mates, we have picked up a few ideas to make things easier and cleaner. Empty often When we first started motorhoming, we tried to use every public toilet we could, because this would make our cassette last longer before we had to empty it, a job that John did not look forward to. This just seemed silly to me, when we had our own nice bathroom to use, but then I wasn’t the one emptying the cassette. Anyway, once we had our Dump Mate, this was no longer a problem, and we now empty every second day. We have noticed that this alone keeps the cassette much fresher, rather than trying to make it last four or five days. After-trip care When we get home from a trip away, John always half fills the cassette with warm water and a scoop of Napisan (or equivalent) and keeps it in the garage, giving it a shake every time he walks past it. Then he rinses it out, puts a dash of chemical in it and small amount of water. A ventilation kit We don’t really need to use a chemical, as we have fitted a Thetford Ventilation kit (similar to a SOG unit). This has a fan that ventilates through the floor, so we have no nasty smells in our motorhome any more. I can highly recommend it. We must have tried every toilet chemical on the market, and none really worked, (although to be fair, they probably lost their effectiveness after a couple of days). We still put a dash in the cassette as we have a few bottles to use up. Clean the inside of the cassette Every now and then, John takes the top right out of the cassette and gives it a really good clean inside. He has even designed a small tool to unscrew the top so as not to put too much pressure on the plastic. See sidebar. He also uses CRC silicon grease on the rubber seals. Use our Dump Mate! Emptying the cassette with a Dump Mate, is a very quick and clean operation. If we are emptying our grey water as well, we start this running first, and then do the cassette. Because we are putting the Dump Mate in the sewer pipe, and there is no spillage, there is no risk of contaminating your grey water hose. By the time you have emptied your cassette and rinsed it a few times, the Dump Mate is clean, and you just shake the water off, and pop it back in it’s bag. Then you can pack up your grey water hose, and both jobs are done. There is no mess, and the dump station (and your feet) are clean. This is a real bonus if the water pressure at the dump station is poor, or there is no hose. Use the cassette air-lock release button We have been surprised to hear, when demonstrating, that many people do not realise that their cassette has a button on the top, at the back to allow air flow. As you raise the back of the cassette to empty, hold the button in: you will find it empties much more smoothly. How not to forget to take your Dump Mate with you Another little tip is to leave the bag for the Dump Mate in your cassette locker when you take your cassette out. This will mean when you put the cassette back, you will see the bag and it will remind you to make sure you have your Dump Mate with you. You don’t want to leave it at the dump station. Up Up 2 Summer 2022 , p 29

11 autumn 2025 11 autumn 2025 BUY AUTHOR INDEX AUTHORS Click on image for full view and caption game-map.webp Game solution Rhonda Marshall The puzzle The solution: Game-solution-11-CKW .pdf Download PDF • 82KB Up Up 11 autumn 2025 , p 36

7 Autumn 2024 7 Autumn 2024 BUY AUTHOR INDEX AUTHORS Click on image for full view and caption Day 1, Nelson Lakes Bikepacking the top half of the Rainbow + Sedgemere Track + bottom half of the Molesworth. ©2024 Simon Kennett Day 1, Rainbow Rd My favourite part of the Rainbow Road. ©2024 Simon Kennett Day 1, Riding a ford Teaching Miro the ramifications of being a half bike length back on ford. ©2024 Simon Kennett Day 1 Also loved the grasslands and views into the mountains. ©2024 Simon Kennett Day 1, Past the skifield turn-of Past the skifield turn-off, the fords became proper 4WD worthy. ©2024 Simon Kennett Still heading up the Wairau. ©2024 Simon Kennett Day 1, Hells Gate! Hells gate! ©2024 Simon Kennett Day 1, Big country Miro's first time riding in such big country and she really nailed it. ©2024 Simon Kennett Night 1, Sedgemere sleepout Sedgemere sleepout -- big sky action, so some of us slept out of the sleepout. ©2024 Simon Kennett Day 1, Elevation St Arnaud to Sedgemere sleepout. ©2024 Simon Kennett Day 2, Sedgemere sleepout The gang... ready to see what Day 2 had in store. ©2024 Simon Kennett Day 2, Sedgemere Track Sedgemere Track is only open for six weeks of the year... perhaps the hottest six weeks of the year. ©2024 Simon Kennett Day 2, Sedgemere Track Mind you, I wouldn't want to be here during the coldest six weeks of the year. Super-exposed as well as 1000 msl - this place must be brutal in winter. ©2024 Simon Kennett Hunting the shade Even as early as 9:30am, we were hunting out shade for our first break. ©2024 Simon Kennett Day 2, Brutal climb By mid-afternoon it was starting to bake. Luckily we found a nice spot for a dip in the river, soon after this brutal wee climb. ©2024 Simon Kennett Day 2, Rock formations. More groovy rock formation in the Acheron valley. ©2024 Simon Kennett Into the wind After turning into the wind at the Acheron Accommodation House, we really were getting fan-baked. Mercifully some cloud cover formed half an hour later, and we were able to function normally again. ©2024 Simon Kennett Jollies Pass Jollies Pass was the most technical part of the trip, so naturally Kerei (on his gravel bike) blazed off the front. James (on his week-old MTB) rode at a sensible pace. ©2024 Simon Kennett Day 3 Elevation Sedgemere sleepout to Hanmer (via Molesworth and Jollies Pass). ©2024 Simon Kennett Day 3, Hanmer Capped the trip off with an excellent day of R+R in Hanmer with Kerei's family. So good! ©2024 Simon Kennett all it takes is a small, perfectly formed bikepacking trip A small, perfectly formed bikepacking trip Simon Kennett Haven’t done a huge amount of biking this summer, but sometimes all it takes is a small, perfectly formed bikepacking trip to rekindle the love. So it was, two weeks ago I set off with Miro, Bronnie, Claire, James and Kerei to do the top half of the Rainbow + Sedgemere Track + bottom half of the Molesworth. Photos ©2024 Simon Kennett Up Up 7 Autumn 2024 , p 15

10 summer 2024 10 summer 2024 BUY AUTHOR INDEX AUTHORS Click on image for full view and caption And people wonder why I like camping Tony Kissel And people wonder why I like camping.◊ ©2024 Tony Kissel Up Up 10 summer 2024 , p 8

Winter doesn’t mean the end of camping adventures! Instagram BUY PDF CONTENTS Spring 2023 ISSUE 5 Up Winter adventures Shoshanna Shand Winter doesn’t mean the end of camping adventures! Instagram ©2023 shoshannah.nz Up Up Up 1/0

Winter 2025 ISSUE 12 BUY PDF ToC Click on image for full view and caption vulnerable_H_kelly-fox-TE AHU A TURANGA.webp GO TO CHILLY CHILLY CHILLY OUT THERE good, weather-related news Vulnerable roads… Miriam Richardson Te Ahu a Turanga In good, weather-related news, the road replacing the Manawatu Gorge, Te Ahu a Turanga, has opened, making the arduous crossing over the Tararuas to and from the Wairarapa a thing of the past; again. It has been about 8 years since the road through the Manwatu Gorge closed, and it was a huge work to make a wholly new road along a different route. After all that time and all that effort, it seems surprising that it is a 15 minute journey from one end to the other (or did my friend exaggerate?). Thankfully the government has decided not to toll this road. The road has paths for walking and cycling with fabulous views. On the Wairarapa side there is the Woodville Ferry Reserve (free) in the Manawatu Gorge, with access to the river and to walking tracks, and the Woodville Campground ($) in Woodville itself, a town worth a leisurely visit. On the Palmerston North side of the hill there is the Ashhurst Domain Campground ($), set amongst trees near the river. The Ō taki Gorge Road After 5 years facing doom, closed to both walking and driving, the Ōtaki Gorge road has reopened. It is a narrow road, one lane in parts, and was closed by huge slips on Blue Bluff (middle). It leads to one of only two drive-in DOC campsites in the region. The road has opened only as far as the caretakers cottage, well short of the campground (as of July), returning access to a swing bridge entrance to the Tararua Forest Park, and a lovely picnic area. The DOC Ōtaki Forks Campsite ($) (above), is expected to reopen at Labour weekend. Its 150 campsites are unpowered and tents are allowed. Flush toilet. Boil tap water. Wheelchair accessible. Dogs on a leash. No fires. Walk, tramp, swim, kayak, canoe, fish, or just read you book and star gaze at night. 🏕️ Up Up 12 Winter 2025 , p 4

11 autumn 2025 11 autumn 2025 BUY AUTHOR INDEX AUTHORS Click on image for full view and caption camp-oven_H-Cooking over the fire including two camp ovens-e.webp Camp-oven - one with lid on and other with trivet-e.webp Camp-oven - with lid on an dother with trivet 2.webp Camp-oven lid close up-e.webp camp-oven_Both camp-oven ovens with trivets-e.webp camp-oven_Cooking over the fire including two camp ovens-e.webp camp-oven_Scout stew cooking in camp-oven over over fire-e.webp camp-oven_Sausages in camp-oven oven.webp camp-oven_Using camp-oven oven to keep sausages warm.webp camp-oven_Cooking with camp-oven ovens on the river bank.webp camp-oven_Lentil and eggplant stew with gnocchi.webp camp-oven_Stuffed apple dessert cooked by scouts.webp camp-oven_2001 Roast dinner from the camp-oven ovens off the fire-e.webp By the way, roast potatoes cooked in a camp oven over the fire are particularly yummy. A camp oven is much more than just a pot Margaret Earle Early in our relationship, my partner Graham gave me a camp oven for Christmas. He thought it was a very practical gift as we were about to head off camping. However, I wasn’t impressed with getting ‘a pot’ for my Christmas present. Years later, I have quite a different view about camp ovens. We carry two camp ovens (two different sizes — 10 inch and 12 inch) in our caravan and use them for a multitude of cooking purposes. When we go away in our trailer yacht we take the camp ovens with us. Camp ovens are designed for cooking on a fire, but they can also be used on gas burners. You can use a camp oven to cook everything from stews and curries to roasts, bread, cakes and puddings. I’ve included a couple of recipes that I put together on our most recent trip from the ingredients I had available (p27). Both were cooked in my smaller camp oven on a gas cooker. Camp ovens are essentially large cast metal pots. Originally, they were made from cast iron but more recently have also been made from aluminium. Some camp ovens have legs you can screw into their base so you can set them in the embers of a fire. Alternatively, you can place your camp oven on a wire grate or rocks in the fire. Our camp ovens are New Zealand-made but there are similar imported products available which are probably just as good. The lid of a camp oven has a ridge around the edge so that embers from the fire can be stacked on the lid to help cook the top of a cake or bread. I recommend that if you are cooking something like a cake or bread that you use a trivet (a rack or upturned metal plate) to elevate the cake tin from the bottom of the camp oven. This will reduce the possibility of burning the bottom of the cake or bread. By the way, roast potatoes cooked in a camp oven over the fire are particularly yummy. When roasting, it is good to jam a small stick between the pot and lid to create a gap to let steam out. In the past as a sea scout leader, I had lots of fun showing our scouts the versatility of camp ovens. At our camps the scouts cooked mostly over fires. We introduced camp ovens so that the scouts had a large pot for cooking meals like stews and something in which to keep their food warm while they were finishing cooking their meals. Over time, I taught them to cook cakes and bread in the camp ovens and they also used them for awesome stews and desserts that they created themselves. Up Up 11 autumn 2025 , p 26

Here’s a word search relating to camping in a tent. Summer 2023 ISSUE 6 BUY PDF CONTENTS Up Word search: Tent camping Up Rhonda Marshall Here’s a word search relating to camping in a tent. Any words that have 3 parts such as “sun screen lotion” is written as 1 word in the grid. So you would look for sunscreenlotion. Words may be placed forward, backwards, diagonally, horizontally and vertically. Once you have found all your search words there are 20 letters left over. Working from top- to-bottom and left-to-right, record the letters in sequence to work out the 4 word secret message. Have fun! Airbed Bag Blankets Book Bowl Chilly bin Clothes pegs Coffee Cooker Cup Detergent Fly screen Fork Ground sheet Guy rope Insect repellant Lantern Light Pan Poles Pot Shoe Sleeping bag Stretcher Sun screen lotion Tea Tea towel Tent pegs Torch Towel Washing up bowl Water bottle Zips Download the page to print: game-Word-search-6_Summer .pdf Download PDF • 458KB View solution or download the solution to print: game-Word-search-solution-6_Summer .pdf Download PDF • 50KB Up Up game-word-search-summer-23.webp game-word-search-summer-23.webp 1/1

2 Summer 2022 Summer 2022 ISSUE 2 CONTENTS PDF BUY Up Wild camping with a dog on a wet wild night Outdoorsman Dave Up It was a very wet, rainy camp with my dog in a dense bush. It was Bentley's first overnighter using a tent & fly. Camp-cooked sausages over a Trangia alcohol stove. Natural sounds help me sleep. Do you like the sound of rain on a fly tarp? Have you ever wondered what it’s like to go camping with a dog? Well then, follow Bentley and me as we spend this wet, wild and humid night in the bush: video: ckw.nz/dave-bentley Note: dogs in regional parks require registration. You can follow Dave on Facebook: Hiking NZ, Wild Camping, Bushcraft: facebook.com/outdoorsman.dave , and his YouTube channel ckw.nz/OutdoorsmanDave Photos ©2022 Outdoorsman Dave Up Up It was Bentley's first overnighter using a tent & fly. ©2022 Outdoorsman Dave ©2022 Outdoorsman Dave Bentley sleeping ©2022 Outdoorsman Dave ©2022 Outdoorsman Dave 1/7