mardi 15 mars 2011

Tramping in the Aorangi Forest Park

Classic New Zealand pattern, the forecast is for north-westerlies. This means shit weather all the mountain ranges of the North Island, so, lets go east! Dion suggests the Aorangi Forest Park, not very convinced since it isn't a well known tramping place. Nevertheless, it should be well protected from the bad weather, and I have never been there, so it's on! Laureen, Aurelie&Nicolas, and Cyrielle join us.

And what a good idea it was: the weather was rainy and windy in Palmy or in Wellington, and it was sunny and almost too warm in the Aorangis! The park is really nice as well, with a very varied forest, and some excellent views of the coastline from the tops. For some unknown reasons, the park is underrated and not well traveled, which you can see by the not so well defined tracks, and the bad state of the huts... We circumvented the later issue by camping nearby a cute stream, and the first is not problematic I reckon.






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