Queen Charlotte Track – Origins and Issues
June 17th, 2010 | by WalkNZ | published in Walks
Interesting paper / view by Pete McDonald. http://homepages.paradise.net.nz/petemcd/qct/qct.htm
Media Release! Queen Charlotte Track
June 8th, 2010 | by WalkNZ | published in Walks
Media Release For Immediate Use 3rd June 2010 Commercial Operators Accept New Track Access Fee Recent announcements regarding a $12 fee to walk the Queen Charlotte Track only apply to multi-day and single day users that cross private land on the track. Twenty one percent of the track crosses private property [...]
Queen Charlotte Track group sets $12 charge
June 2nd, 2010 | by WalkNZ | published in Walks
Walkers and mountainbikers on the Queen Charlotte Track will be charged $12 from July 1. Landowners along the 71km track announced in March they would start charging people on the track for using their land. They talked about fees between $10 and $15, depending on the number of days people were planning to be on [...]
Trampers are Happy to Pay? …really…??
April 6th, 2010 | by WalkNZ | published in Walks
Picked up this article from The Marlborough Express last week. But are trhe views of 8 self proclaimed “Fat Bastards” and a couple of Aussies really representative of all Trampers? What is your view?