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Minimum Impact Code

1. Keep parties small.
2. Plan your trip to minimise rubish.
3. Pack just what you can pack in.
4. Carry out all unburnable rubbish.
5. Keep to tracks where they exist.
6. Minimise campsite construction. Don’t damage the vegetation.
7. Avoid camping near huts, roads, open walking tracks, and other camps.
8. DO NOT used soap or detergent near streams or lakes.
9. Bury toilet waste.
10. Use portable stoves rather than fires.
11. If must use wood fire, keep small to conserve wood.
12. Protect native wild live and plants.
13. Take only photographs, leave only footprints.


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Before Leaving

check weather thoroughly
inform others exactly where you plan to go (inform DOC centre as well)
bring a map
pack clothes for all conditions
take a whistle for every two people


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Packing

bring First Aid kit and mobile phone
put matches in drawstrap bags in not waterproof
take food out of containers and put in snap lock bags
spread food between luggage


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Crossing rivers

throw a stick into the river to check current direction and strength
check water depths
cross in groups of four with larger one upstream, linking arms together


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Other things

have a form of ventilation in the tent
do not cook inside the tent
stay put if lost
be aware of the signs of Hyperthermia
be determined to survive



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