Category: Ruahine Range
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Ruahine Tops 1,600s and 1,700s: Saw tooth instead of Dragons teeth.
We had planned our Dragons teeth Adventure, spending hours researching the high traverse. Flights were booked based on a good long range forecast and the excitement was building. This trip has been on the wish list for a few years. Then the forecast took a turn, 77mm of rain for Friday night, not what we…
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Ruahine CL Main Range route
The Ruahine Range is the largest of several mountain ranges in the North Island of New Zealand that form a ridge running parallel with the east coast of the island between East Cape and Wellington. The CL Main Range route starts from Comet Rd at the Northernmost point of the range and follows the main…
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Ruahine main range Sunrise to Limestone Rd
After 2 months of lockdown that had us running circles around our homes we were allowed to travel and stay overnight in the huts. We had planned to go back and finish our Ruahine main range trip early April, the weekend was a cracker, 5km winds at 1700m on Mangaweka! But we were in lock…
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Ruahine Traverse Comet Road to Sunrise Track
On my first trip to the Ruahines I was treated to beautiful sunrises, dramatic landscapes and towering snow capped peaks. My father in law pulled out an old DOC park map showing the whole range on one large bit of paper. Al had made a few attempts at traversing the range and it looked like…
