{"id":6419,"date":"2009-12-26T21:25:47","date_gmt":"2009-12-26T13:25:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/day.lat\/lon\/?p=6419"},"modified":"2026-09-06T23:50:15","modified_gmt":"2026-09-06T15:50:15","slug":"overland-track-day-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/day.lat\/lon\/2009\/12\/26\/overland-track-day-5\/","title":{"rendered":"Overland Track Day 5: Pelion to Kia Ora"},"content":{"rendered":"

After spending a few nights at the Pelion Hut, it was time to continue on our journey to Kia Ora, an 8.6 km, 3-4-hour hike. Pelion Hut was one of the larger, nicer huts with unusual toilet facilities. At each hut, the toilets were elevated so park rangers could collect the deposits below them and fly them out in capsules by helicopter to keep the environment pristine. <\/p>\n

\"Pelion
Pelion Hut and Elevated Toilet Block<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

You would occasionally hear these helicopters flying off in the valleys with their collected toilet waste. The helicopters were also used to visit huts, check on hikers, and evacuate those who were injured or had just decided they weren’t up for the rest of the hike. We did see someone with leg issues flown out while we were at Pelion Hut. <\/p>\n

\"Pelion
Pelion Hut Helicopter Landing Pad<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

We headed off along the Douglas Creek on our way south to Pelion Gap and the Kia Ora Hut.<\/p>\n

\"Hiker
Hiker along the Pelion to Kia Ora segment of the Overland Track in Tasmania<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Douglas
Douglas Creek along the Pelion to Kia Ora segment of the Overland Track in Tasmania<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Eucalypt
Eucalypt Forest and Mountains along the Pelion to Kia Ora segment of the Overland Track in Tasmania<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Eucalypt
Eucalypt Forest and Mountains along the Pelion to Kia Ora segment of the Overland Track in Tasmania<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Eucalypt
Eucalypt Forest along the Pelion to Kia Ora segment of the Overland Track in Tasmania<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Eucalypt
Eucalypt Forest and Mountains along the Pelion to Kia Ora segment of the Overland Track in Tasmania<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Pelion
Pelion Gap (1113m) rest area along the Pelion to Kia Ora segment of the Overland Track in Tasmania<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Eucalypt
Eucalypt Forest and Mountains along the Pelion to Kia Ora segment of the Overland Track in Tasmania<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Eucalypt
Eucalypt Forest and Mountains along the Pelion to Kia Ora segment of the Overland Track in Tasmania<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Eucalypt
Eucalypt Forest and Mountains along the Pelion to Kia Ora segment of the Overland Track in Tasmania<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Eucalypt
Eucalypt Forest and Mountains along the Pelion to Kia Ora segment of the Overland Track in Tasmania<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Eucalypt
Eucalypt Forest and Mountains along the Pelion to Kia Ora segment of the Overland Track in Tasmania<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Eucalypt
Eucalypt Forest and Mountains along the Pelion to Kia Ora segment of the Overland Track in Tasmania<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Creek
Creek along the Pelion to Kia Ora segment of the Overland Track in Tasmania<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Eucalypt
Eucalypt Forest and Mountains along the Pelion to Kia Ora segment of the Overland Track in Tasmania<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"View
View of Mount Massif (1514m) from the Kia Ora Hut along the Overland Track in Tasmania<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Mount
Mount Pelion East (1433m) along the Pelion to Kia Ora segment of the Overland Track in Tasmania<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"View
View of Mount Massif (1514m) from the Kia Ora Hut along the Overland Track in Tasmania<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"View
View of Mount Massif (1514m) from the Kia Ora Hut along the Overland Track in Tasmania<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"View
View of Mount Massif (1514m) from the Kia Ora Hut along the Overland Track in Tasmania<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

After spending a few nights at the Pelion Hut, it was time to continue on our journey to Kia Ora, an 8.6 km, 3-4-hour hike. Pelion Hut was one of the larger, nicer huts with unusual toilet facilities. At each hut, the toilets were elevated so park rangers could collect the deposits below them and… Continue reading Overland Track Day 5: Pelion to Kia Ora<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2,86],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6419","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-australia","category-tasmania","without-featured-image"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3sHuW-1Fx","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/day.lat\/lon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6419","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/day.lat\/lon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/day.lat\/lon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/day.lat\/lon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/day.lat\/lon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6419"}],"version-history":[{"count":27,"href":"https:\/\/day.lat\/lon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6419\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7012,"href":"https:\/\/day.lat\/lon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6419\/revisions\/7012"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/day.lat\/lon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6419"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/day.lat\/lon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6419"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/day.lat\/lon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6419"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}