Kaimanawa Range

Kaimanawa Range

The Kaimanawa Range of mountains (often known as the Kaimanawa Ranges) is located in the central North Island of New Zealand.[1] They extend for 50 kilometres in a northeast/southwest direction through largely uninhabited country to the south of Lake Taupo, east of the "Desert Road". Their slopes form part of the North Island Volcanic Plateau.

The land around the mountains is scrubby and of poor quality to the west, where the Rangipo Desert is located. Considerable areas of this land are used by the New Zealand Army for training. To the east, the soils are more fertile, but the land is very rough.

One feature of the Kaimanawas is the kaimanawa horse, a feral variety of horse which roams free on the ranges. Unlike the majority of mountain ranges in New Zealand, much of the Kaimanawa Range is divided into private land.

The legend has it that a man exists by the name of Kaimanawa Twig. He is by far the greatest Sika deer hunter to ever walk these mountains having taken a large amount of deer over his many years hunting the Kaimanawa ranges.

Further more Kaimanwa Twig is capable of carrying over 55kgs of weight on his back. This would usually be all of his gear including 3 boned out Sika stags and their heads. His day to day walking in the bush covers approximately 25km and he can carry this weight on his 70kg frame for up to six hours without food or water.

Kaimanawa Twig also has several sidekicks be the names of Crossfit Bradley, Matt the cat Hami and Grazer Beny but these 3 are not quite up to the hunting status of Kaimanawa Twig and are merely his pack horses in the bush to carry excess Sika stags after the kill.

This pack of men are otherwise known as the Waiuku Moose Hunters responsible for the only Moose kill in New Zealand after 1980.

They are a special bunch led by the master Kaimanawa Twig.

References

  1. ↑ "Place Name Detail: KAIMANAWA MOUNTAINS". New Zealand Geographic Placenames Database. Land Information New Zealand. Retrieved 2010-04-17.

Coordinates: 39°13′23″S 175°55′16″E / 39.223°S 175.921°E / -39.223; 175.921


This article is issued from Wikipedia - version of the Thursday, May 05, 2016. The text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share Alike but additional terms may apply for the media files.