Ashley Forest tracks offer wide choice
A series of easy walking tracks have been developed in the Ashley Forest, about 50km from Christchurch. Five tracks offer walkers a choice of paths through both exotic and native forests. Bird and stream life and forest vegetation may be seen on walks taxing anything from one hour to a day. The tracks have been developed during the last year as part of a. New Zealand Forest Service policy to open up areas of environmental value. "The Forest Service is concerned that people have access to what areas of native forest we have left,” said the second-in-charge at the Ashley forest, Mr A. W. Henderson. . , The tracks, which were either built from scratch, or existing paths redeveloped by temporary workers, are
designed for people of average fitness. Mr Henderson said an effort was made to restrict the steepness of paths so that family groups could take the walks Each walk has . its own attractions and timetables. Details are available from the Ashley Forest Service, which can be reached by telephoning Rangiora, 8015. • From views of the coast and the Canterbury Plains the Lake Janet and Grey River path winds through native forest to the Grey River Valley. Areas of beech forest-with rimu and matai are passed through and tree ferns and wood pegeons can be seen. • The Mount Grey Track is a tramp through beech forest and sub-alpine grassland with extensive views across the plains. The mountain was
known to the Maoris as Maukatere, or floating mountain, as it was believed that the spirits of the dead left its summit to "travel to Cape Reinga. • Thomas Bush walk offers an easy trek through Wooded Gully beech forest, a remnant of a large area of native forest cleared by settlers at the end of last century. • A change of clothes is needed for a close-up look at the Grey River gorge. The walk offers more than water, as fossils, rock sequences, stream, and forest communities and many swimming holes add extra interest for the adventurous. • The Glentui walk takes in the gorge and waterfall of the same name and also follows an early stock route to Lees Valley cut in the 1870 s.
Ashley Forest tracks offer wide choice
Press, 9 January 1982, Page 5
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