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Climbing the big canoe on a brilliant autumn day

May 6, 2017 by Juliet Gillick Leave a Comment

Te Waka from Potter’s Road, Hawke’s Bay, Saturday 6 May 2017
Photos: Juliet Gillick

Twelve trampers set off at 7am, heading up the Puketitiri Road to turn right onto Potter’s Road. We had the farmer’s consent to use his land to access Te Waka from this side of the range. This was an area that had been done before by some in the group, but (not having a set track) had previously taken some false leads to get to the cellphone tower at the top.

One of the many rocky bluffs on Te Waka

This is the tower that can be seen from the Napier-Taupo Road, so it was an intriguing walk for those of us who hadn’t been there, to see the countryside from this angle. Fortunately Graeme, who was leading the group, knew the area well so we were able to take a circular route to get to the tower and back to the cars without too much backtracking on the same route.

At the start, it was the first decent frost I’d seen this autumn with the grass all white on arrival. Hats and gloves were used by most of the group at that stage but were quickly packed away with the hill climb and sunshine. A deer had been seen from the road and another was spotted close to one of the many patches of bush on the farm. It was lovely to hear quite a few birds in the bush patches and it made for a very interesting walk even though virtually all of it was on the farmland. The views were fantastic and the rock formations when we were nearing the top were very striking.

We had a morning tea stop, by some tarns which still had quite a bit of water in them. From there, it wasn’t too far before a leisurely lunch at the cell-phone tower with views of Napier and over to Cape Kidnappers as well as the Napier Taupo road leading up to Titiokura.

The happy group, out on a fabulous blue sky autumnal day

On the way down, we discovered a cave/tunnel among the rock formations which could have provided shelter for us all in adverse weather – albeit somewhat smelly as it is obviously used by farm animals. It was a steady climb down and eventually back to the cars for an early return to Napier about 4.30pm. Overall it was a great tramp with fantastic sunshine and no wind.

Trampers: Ali Hollington, Rosemary Jeffery, Sue Martin, Marie Deroles, Viv Bramley, Hannah Munro, John Dobbs, Fiona Bryant, Gordon Tapp, Graeme Taylor, Lynette Morgan and reporter Juliet Gillick

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We are a group of like-minded people who love the great outdoors. We tramp mostly in the Hawke’s Bay province, in remote areas such as the Kaweka and Ruahine Ranges; but we also travel longer distances to new places, for longer walks.

The Napier Tramping Club was established in 1974 and has about 70 members. We belong to the Federated Mountain Clubs of NZ Inc (FMC) and run Saturday, full-weekend and Wednesday tramps, every fortnight.

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