3202 - Karioi

We will gather in Hamilton, London Street at 8am and either car pool or use a van depending on numbers, and drive out to either the inland track or the Te Toto Gorge lookout car park on the coast road south of Raglan. 

Then, either climb to track I've never done up the inland side or,
from Te Toto: we climb about 500m elevation through a mix of open farm and mixed scrubby forest into proper forest. The effects of this windy coast make the trees all shaped to bend inland and their canopy shape is a well coifed wind resistant unity. We also get great sea vistas as we climb up through the bush to a peak at 706m. A small detour out to a lookout gives a view into a valley that may have been one of the major craters.

Then back to the main track and on up what becomes a bit of a tricky ridge, with some four-points-of-contact monkey work to get onto the final rise to the peak at 756m.

 

Then back the way we came and a possible stop for refreshments in Raglan.

 

Great day out - good views, good exercise and fresh air.