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Safety Tips - Know your limits
According to The Chinese the relationship between risk and the individual can be described as "wei-jan" meaning "opportunity through danger."
Your responsibility is to enjoy and maximise the opportunity while reducing and minimising the risk
Some important questions to ask yourself before you venture into the outdoors:
- What could go wrong?
- What would cause it to go wrong?
- How could you prevent it from going wrong
- Whose responsibility is ?
- When/where will it be done?
- Do you have an Emergency Plan?
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Know your limits
Challenge yourself within your physical limits and experience. Below are the Department of Conservations track ratings. What's your level of challenge?
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Easy Short Walk Access
These tracks are accessible to people of all abilities.
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Short Walk
Easy walking for up to an hour on a well formed tack that is well formed with an even surface with possible steps or slopes. Suitable for people of most abilities and fitness. Stream and rivers crossings are bridged. Walking shoes required.
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Walking Track
Easy to moderate walking from a few minutes to a day on a well formed track, some sections may be steep, rough or muddy. Clearly sign posted and all Stream and river crossings are bridged. Suitable for people with low to moderate fitness and abilities Walking shoes or light tramping/hiking boots required.
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Great walks/Easy Tramping
Track is generally well formed, may be steep, rough or muddy, suitable for people with moderate fitness. Limited backcountry (remote areas) experience required. Track has signs, poles or markers. Major stream and rivers crossings are bridged. Light tramping/hiking boots required.
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Tramping
Challenging day or multi-day tramping/hiking on a track that is mostly unformed with steep, rough or muddy sections. Suitable for people with good fitness. Moderate to high level backcountry skills and experience, including navigation and survival skills required. Tracks have markers, poles or rock cairns. Expect unbridged stream and river crossings. Tramping/hiking boots required.
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Route Tracks
Challenging day or multi-day tramping/hiking on a unformed and natural track, rough, muddy or very steep. Suitable for people with above average fitness with High level backcountry skills and experience, including navigation and survival skills required. Complete self sufficiency is required. Track has markers, poles or rock cairns. Expect unbridged stream and river crossings. Sturdy tramping/hiking boots required |
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