At 1020m and located halfway between Cromwell and Queenstown, Mt Mason ticks all the boxes: it remains snow-free for much of the year, is seldom visited and a track right on the roadside leads a short, though steep, distance to the summit.
From the tiny car park just off SH6, a stile takes you into a field where a short series of poles guides walkers alongside a narrow stream and towards the base of the mountain. The path, a narrow 4WD track, starts steeply, and at a gradient that remains more or less consistent for the duration […]
