Posted 19th January 2019 to the Otago Daily Times Newspaper Dunedin NZ
Your recent article on the banning of Heli Hiking on Manapouri’s Amazing Mount Titiroa is a bit concerning.
I love the federated Mountain Club but some how they found a loop hole in the structure of the Department of Conservation that allows them to kick other types of user out of the people’s estate who are not fit young things with lots of time to kill.
When we battle the Department over the right to cycle in National Parks they say clubs like the FMC put in the submission that no bikes should ever be allowed and it takes a political event to change such as a national park review.
Now the FMC also wish to limit tourists from seeing Mount Titiroa.
It may transpire that the FMC also stopped the Department from marking safe tracks up Mount Titiroa
Or upgrading huts which have either been destroyed, or in the case of North Borland, a glorified 2 man garden shed and even restricting local guiding, but that’s another story.
I think day users should have some rights in our parks even though they have not formed a voting block especially on a unique mountain that is only 8 mins flying from our airport that would otherwise take 3 days tramping and a load of logistics.
Your recent article on the banning of Heli Hiking on Manapouri’s Amazing Mount Titiroa is a bit concerning.
I love the federated Mountain Club but some how they found a loop hole in the structure of the Department of Conservation that allows them to kick other types of user out of the people’s estate who are not fit young things with lots of time to kill.
When we battle the Department over the right to cycle in National Parks they say clubs like the FMC put in the submission that no bikes should ever be allowed and it takes a political event to change such as a national park review.
Now the FMC also wish to limit tourists from seeing Mount Titiroa.
It may transpire that the FMC also stopped the Department from marking safe tracks up Mount Titiroa
Or upgrading huts which have either been destroyed, or in the case of North Borland, a glorified 2 man garden shed and even restricting local guiding, but that’s another story.
I think day users should have some rights in our parks even though they have not formed a voting block especially on a unique mountain that is only 8 mins flying from our airport that would otherwise take 3 days tramping and a load of logistics.
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