Last Updated: 21st Sep 2023

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Mount Vernon

Canterbury, New Zealand

Last Updated: 21st Sep 2023

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Straightforward

Little or no technical difficulty or exposure

462m

  

-43.59412, 172.66783

BX24 7319 7315

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Mount Vernon can be accessed on the trails Rapaki Sugarloaf Return, Sign Of The Takahe - Rapaki, VKV challenge, Gondola Gallop, The Crater Rim, Port Hills Spur Challenge!, Up Hill Down Valley, Mt Vernon Farm Track , Christchurch 360 Trail - Sugarloaf Hills Section and Port Hills Protocol from our trail directory.

Follow the Crater Rim trail between the top of Rapaki and Sugarloaf and you will bag this peak! Steep singletrack to get up and down but highly runnable.

David Hosking

February 2, 2022

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