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A windy trek up to Wharite Peak

August 27, 2016 by Rosemary Jeffery Leave a Comment

Wharite Peak, Ruahine FP, Saturday 27 August 2016
Photos taken by Elly and Gerard Govers.

Our destination for the walk

Our destination for the walk

Only five left the Park Island car park on this Saturday day tramp. Our driver, Gerard, was the only male but I’m sure he enjoyed the company of four lady passengers.

We decided we needed a coffee at Dannevirke so stopped off en route. Arriving at the Coppermine Road car park, it was windy and a bit cooler than when we had left Napier. We all put on our jackets; it looked like raining.

There was a huge tree across the main Coppermine track but we were able to go down and around it and back onto the track again.

The climb up from the junction was fairly steep but we were lucky to have the leatherwood to protect us from the very strong winds all the way to the top. As we neared the radio, TV and cellphone transmission tower, the wind blowing through it sounded like a low-flying jet airliner.

Huddling out of lthe wind

Huddling out of lthe wind

We tried to find somewhere out of the wind for a lunch break but there was no shelter, so we huddled against one of the buildings and had a snack. There wasn’t much of a view either, because it was very cloudy.

Lower down the track, we halted for lunch in the shelter of the leatherwood, and then it was a quick trip back down. Luckily the rain didn’t come to anything and it wasn’t as slippery as we had expected – although a couple of us had dirty shorts.

The start of the Coppermine Track

The start of the Coppermine Track

We were back at the car park by 2pm, stopped off at the Tiko pub for another coffee and something more to eat and were back to Napier by 4pm.

Only one of us had been on this tramp before, so it was great that the rest were finally able to make it – even though the views weren’t as spectacular as we had hoped.

Trampers: Elly, Gerard, Jude, Viv, and reporter Rosemary.

Filed Under: Recent trips Tagged With: Coppermine Track, Wharitie P:eak

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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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