FAQs (Frequently Asked Questions)

How do I use this website?

Find what you NEED to KNOW quickly. Often you can jump directly to the answer to your question using many different navigation options. Use the back button on your browser if you want to return to where you were.

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If you might hike Abel Tasman:

• Browse the FAQs first
• Browse the rest of the site

• Scan the FAQs
• Scan the Details
• If that doesn’t work, e-mail us your question

If you’ve already hiked Abel Tasman:

• E-mail to let us know how it went
• Consider joining us — become a contributor by sending trip notes and / or photos from your hike.

If you have an addition or correction for the website please e-mail. We’d appreciate any advice you have to improve this site.

If you need to know EVERYTHING about the Abel Tasman Track, this website is written sequentially like a book. Read the whole thing starting on the home page. Keep clicking on Next Page when you reach the bottom of each.

How up-to-date is this information?

Each page has the most recent date of revision posted at the bottom.

Conditions change on the ocean on a day to day, hour to hour basis. Expect the unexpected. Be ready for anything, especially wind & rain.

That said, the main advantage of the Internet is currency. This site is as up-to-date as the last hiker who e-mailed to advise us of new issues on the Track.

Who is i-NEEDtoknow.com?

We are hiking enthusiasts using the Internet to provide up-to-date advice. Though based in Canada, we hope to expand this site to (one day) include more of the great multi-day treks of the world.

This website is a resource for those wanting to hike the Abel Tasman & an archive for those who have tramped it.