About

The work in Trap Tools is driven by our desire to take on a kaitiaki role for the mountains. With Marcus being a trustee of Doubtless Conservation Trust (DCT), protecting the Nina and Doubtful Valleys and the surrounding tops (about 43,000 ha), we realise the need for better tools to enable landscape scale conservation to be undertaken most efficiently with limited resources. DCT community is highly motivated, but limited in resources, so we need to be as efficient as possible. As for much of our wilderness, the “easy” areas in the valley floors and on tracks are now trapped and we need to start working on the harder country: up the ridges and along the tops. For this we need to develop new tools which are lighter and more effective.

Trap Tools Ltd has been created to bring such tools to market . We are continuing to research new devices with new tools being tested in the DCT area as well as on Aotea, Great Barrier Island.

Trap Tools products are designed and manufactured in Christchurch NZ.




Nina Valley Photo: Michal Klajban, Wikimedia Commons

The team

  • Marcus King

    Marcus King

    Marcus trained and worked as an engineer and scientist for Callaghan Innovation and its predecessors. He has tramped and climbed in the Southern Alps all his life  and has been...

    Marcus King

    Marcus trained and worked as an engineer and scientist for Callaghan Innovation and its predecessors. He has tramped and climbed in the Southern Alps all his life  and has been...

  • Bruce McCallum

    Bruce McCallum

      Bruce studied electrical engineering at Canterbury University for the best part of the 1980s, partly due to Christchurch's proximity to great cycling, tramping, skiing and music. He then worked...

    Bruce McCallum

      Bruce studied electrical engineering at Canterbury University for the best part of the 1980s, partly due to Christchurch's proximity to great cycling, tramping, skiing and music. He then worked...

  • Vicki Carlyon

    Vicki Carlyon

    A Heretaunga Tramping Club trip to Arthur’s Pass while Vicki was still at school was the first of many tramps in the South Island. This tramp was the catalyst for...

    Vicki Carlyon

    A Heretaunga Tramping Club trip to Arthur’s Pass while Vicki was still at school was the first of many tramps in the South Island. This tramp was the catalyst for...