Approaching Waihianoa Valley on the Round the Mountain Track. Photo: Shaun Barnett/Black Robin Photography

Coming around the mountain

July 2018

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Circumnavigate the North Island’s highest mountain on the Ruapehu Round the Mountain Track.

The sharp spire of Girdlestone; the precipitous pyramid of Ringatoto Peak; the prow of Te Heuheu; the dome of Tahurangi Ridge. All these aspects of Mt Ruapehu present themselves on a tramp around its sprawling flanks.  The 66km Round the  Mountain Track circumnavigates Ruapehu, making an irregular scribe around the southern half of our oldest […]
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