“Rangi Hut” is an easy walk for families and ideal frontcountry refuge with views from Ruahine to Ruapehu. The hut must be booked, affording frontcountry trampers the security of a bed. From Renfrew Road, an easy benched track with thoughtful interpretation panels sidles an unnamed stream more than 100m above its gorge. The track gains a slip, only to drop to one of this region’s distinctive, impressive wooden arch bridge that straddles the stream. A plaque commemorates the bridge’s opening in 1988 by the then Minister of Conservation, the Rt Hon Helen Clark. You’re now halfway to Rangiwahia Hut. The track…