There are about 57 tramping and forestry huts in the Ruahine Range, and Maarten Ruiter is only three away from having visited all of them.
A member of the Wellington Tramping and Mountaineering Club for the last nine years, he started out taking trips to the easier to reach ones with club members and then decided to head off on his own to the more inaccessible sites.
"I come and visit my family who are in Hawke's Bay and decided to start ticking them off."
In the last few days he walked to four huts that he had not been to before, including Iron Bark hut on the Rangitikei side of the range.
This involved four days of tramping - two three hour days and two 11 hour days.
"You definitely have to be experienced, people often get helicoptered into the remote areas."