Last Updated: 21st Sep 2023
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Hawkes Bay, New Zealand
Last Updated: 21st Sep 2023
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Little or no technical difficulty or exposure
1,471m
-39.21071, 176.21744
BJ37 7781 5491
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Main access is gained by crossing the Harkness just down stream from the Hut stream tributary. Follow the spur and game trails up through scrub, clay pans, and small amount of mountain beech higher up. Tip out on the right-hand end of the range. Follow the ridges to the summit at the left hand end
December 21, 2021
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