The Ruahine Range runs north-east from near Palmerston North towards Hawke's Bay, and most of it is protected as Ruahine Forest Park. Its character is bush on the lower slopes and open, tussock tops above, which gives long views on a good day and very little shelter on a bad one.
Club trips here are mostly weekend hut trips of medium grade, with Sunrise, Howletts, Rangiwahia, Iron Gate and Triangle huts among the places that come up most often. One report describes a longer crossing of the range.
The tops are exposed, so wind and cloud matter here. The reports run from the 1970s to the present and cover every month of the year.
Highlight trips
Across the Ruahines2016 · Medium
The Haunting of Iron Gate Hut2020 · Easy-Medium
A Steak in the Hills2016 · Easy-Medium
Irongate Hut (via Tunupō)2021 · Easy-Medium
How about a trip to Howlett’s Hut?2017 · Medium
The Triangle Trio – Triangle hut via Rangiwahia2022 · Medium
Sun and snow on the way to Daphne Hut2018 · Easy-Medium
Te Atuaoparapara – Ruahine Forest Park2025 · Medium-Fit
See-the-Saw Soaring into the Sky2019 · Alpine 1
Riddles in the Ruahines and Crackle Conundrums: an eventful weekend trip to Iron Gate Hut!2025 · Easy-Medium- Trip reportRuahine Return - Labour Weekend 1949THE QUALITY OF PURITY IS NOT STRAINED. Ruahine Return - Labour Weekend 1949. Having done a Ruahine Crossing with sundry other bods on Anzac Weekend and graunched up the creeks, shivered on the tops and slid in the mud down from Purity Hut, in company with…
- Trip reportRuahine RamblesBLESO Object: - To walk il anc out of the Ruahines. Apparatus: - Barrie O'Donnell (Leader), Suzanne Harrison, Hazel Jordan, Harold Stretton, Dennis Allison, Frank McGowan, John heeler, Fred McCauselard. Time: - Thur day, April 10th, 1952, 9 Pollo - Monday…
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