Choose a baking hot summer’s day to enjoy the wonderland and natural waterpark of the Wairere Stream, a short and easy walk from Whakapapa Village.
At the end of Ngāuruhoe Place, take the Upper Taranaki Falls Track. This loop track visits Taranaki Falls and returns by following the lower reaches of Wairere Stream. The falls are often busy with day walkers, but it’s worth making a short detour to see them on the way back. The track is easy going, […]
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.
