Karamatura Loop Walk – Huia Regional Park
A great way to spend an hour in the valley, the Karamatura Loop Walk has a good track surface and reasonable gradients making...
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Filter Track, Cascade Kauri Regional Park
Tramping Track – From the Waitakere Filter Station at the end of Christian Road, Filter Track ascends spur through kauri grove. It is...
Parker Track, Arataki Visitor Centre
Walking Track – From the bend on the Identification Loop of the Arataki Nature Trail, the Parker Track goes down a gentle grade to...
Waitoru Reserve Track, Te Henga – Bethells Regional Park
In an anticlockwise direction from the small carpark on Bethells Road, this loop track marked with red discs ascends easily through young podocarp...
Zig Zag Track – Huia Regional Park
Walking Track – From the parking area on Park Road, this gravel track descends the valley to Titirangi Beach Road. 1.2km. (Source). I’d...
Kaitoke Hot Springs Track to Mt Hobson
Mount Hobson is the highest mountain on Great Barrier Island, rising 621m above sea level. There are three routes that you can take...
Mount Hobson (or bust)
When I first organised our trip to the barrier, the original plan was to run the entire length of the Aotea Track (billed...
Great Barrier Musings
James and I both arrived back in Auckland from our Great Barrier Island adventure (although in the least straight forward manner ever, but more...
Backyard Exploring – But Why?
James and I are just about to wing our way to Great Barrier Island for a weekend of exploration, but before I head...
Ferndown Track – Cascade Kauri Regional Park
Tramping Track – From the parking area at end of an unnamed, short side-road, off Opanuku Road, Ferndown Track crosses the stream, enters...