Wild tales chase on the heels of any account of tramping on Rakiura Stewart Island: kiwi as big as cats, thigh-deep mud and sinking sand that will suck you to the depths of Doughboy Bay. These tales wind their way around the island’s three main tramping tracks – the Rakiura, North West and Southern circuits. They don’t even touch the southernmost third of the island.

The Tin Range marches down the spine of southern Rakiura to Pikihatiti Port Pegasus. On the topo map, it seems to beckon with an inviting finger. But as writer Anna Watson started to read into routes on the range, it became clear that wild tales only grew wings down there.

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