Raukumara Forest Park Peaks

[ledge]

I luv this site!
Um, after Hikurangi, theres 4-5 more remote mntns in this neck of the woods.

In late February 1995 I emerged from my tent on the summit of Raukumara, 1,413m above East Cape...
... protruding from the white wall of cloud below me was Hikurangi, and further north, Honokawa.

I returned in about 1998 with a buddy to ascend this five-fingered rock buttress, with access permission from the Forestry Co. 5 hours of bushwhacking up a steep spur got us 1/2 way up, where we bivvied. No water, all routes to streams were totally inaccessible. We chose to retreat, rather than climb higher with no H2O.

[vinodrinker]

sounds pretty hardcore

[ledge]

Not hardcore, I'm just too stubborn.

By the way "ledge" is what my ol' tramping buddies named me.
Short for 'legend'.