Rangipo Hut is within easy reach and a great location for the sunset. Photo: Saul Gudsell

The best trip on Topo50 map BJ34 – Mount Ruapehu

January 2024

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A family-friendly trip to a grand sunset viewing location on Mt Ruapehu.

BJ34 is the eighth most popular map in the country, and the only one to include a volcano, a hot lake surrounded by glaciers, a wilderness area, three ski fields, pristine swimming holes, several lahar paths, beech forest, mad scoria fields, secret sly grogging routes, the last spike of the North Island main trunk railway, […]
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Hazel Phillips

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Hazel Phillips

Hazel Phillips is an alpine adventurer and the author of Fire & Ice, Solo, and Great Hearts. A firm believer that ‘you can’t be what you can’t see’, she’s passionate about representation in the outdoors. She is a self-confessed Ruapehu addict, and she’s never met a topo map she didn’t get along with.

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