WANGAPEKA-KARAMEA TRACK

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume 80, 10 November 1945, Page 4

WANGAPEKA-KARAMEA TRACK

ERECTION OF SIGNS SUGGESTED The erection of direction signs at a number of points on the route followed by trampers between the Wangapeka and Karamea, is suggested by Mr C. P. Boyd, of Tui, who has a good knowledge of the country between the Wangapeka and the West Coast. Mr Boyd states that the track is at present unsafe for solo trampers owing to the broken nature of the country and the fact that the former track is obliterated for long distances with broken rock and timber brought down by the 1929 earthquake. It is now impossible to travel the original formed track for many miles and trampers who do not know where to branch off on to new tracks, some made by men and some by deer, could be delayed on the trip for several days. To mark the new tracks, and so make the route safer for trampers. Mr Boyd suggests that signs be erected at the following points: (1) At what is known as the cart bridge: (2) at Pickerings creek: (3) at a point about 20 chains on the western side of the Wangapeka saddle; (4) signs at each of the four crossings of the left-hand branch of the Karamea river; (5) about one mile and a-half past the Tabernacle: <6i at the two crossings of the Taipo. Other useful signs could be erected on the route into the headwaters of the Little Wanganui river. There are no huts on the track other than the one on the right-hand branch of the Wangapeka river known as King's hut