Mout Hope is 1244m. Route Description below..
Trip will be running on Sunday
Still a few more places if you are keen. UPDATE : Sp ace for one more to fill two cars. Unless we get another carload!
The route, marked by orange plastic triangles, begins as a vehicle trac k through broom and blackberry, before quickly climbing steeply up a spur t hrough forest mainly consisting of red, hard and silver beech, with a scatt ering of podocarps like halls totara and miro. After approx. 2 km the gradi ent of the spur lessens, and the surrounding bush transitions to a coarser, shorter mix of kanuka, yellow silver pine and celery pine.
At 1000 m elevation, you’ll reach the beginning of the ‘tops’, which are an undulati ng mix of stunted mountain beech and kanuka, and tussock and sub-alpine scr ub. The track is sandy underfoot, indicative of the underlying granite geol ogy. The route continues to the left (southwest), climbing through patchy m ountain beech and passing the intriguingly-shaped granite boulders that dot the landscape. Towards the summit the route markers are less frequent; the re is a lightly-worn path through the subalpine scrub though in places it’s a case of picking your own way. The summit is not immediately obvious, tho ugh you should aim for the visibly highest point. The summit is marked by a metal pipe trig and small cairn.
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