Sunday 31th March 2019
This day trip will start with the drive to the Kauaeranga valley behind Thames. The track is one of the most popular in the Coromandel so it is fully bridged and you won't get your feet wet. The track winds up the Kauaeranga river and Webb Creek before getting up onto the hillside and climbing to the Pinnacles Hut site. This is a rise of about 400m but slow / lengthy. We will inspect the hut, for those of you who haven't been there, and then carry on up the last ridge of about 170m rise, to the spectacular outcrop of rocks which we perch on to view the magnificent scenery of the Bay of Plenty, the mountain range and off west to the Thames valley.
The way home is down hill, obviously, and therefore we will be so fast and energetic that we may go back via the Billygoat walk, where I have been lost before. If we get out, we can stop somewhere for an ice-cream.
It’s a good length of a day with about 600m climb so it is a medium fitness
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John McArthur
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021 2889641
07 856 4394
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Senior member |
$25 - 30 |
Senior non-member |
$30 - 35 |
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