Maungakawa (WK-125 not WK-134) has been on my list of to do summits for a while. So on the 2nd of April I gave this a go. The track starts off from Matahuru Road by going 80 m down to a stream. This was not going to be fun coming back out. From the stream its a 400 m climb to the top. Further up … Continue reading ZL1/WK-125 : Maungakawa

This is an unnamed summit above lake Rotopaunamu. There is no track to this summit so its a bash up the ridge to the top. Fortunately the activation zone is large so once you are inside the 940 m contour you can activate. The walk up was fairly straight forward with the help of my GPS map app. Once in the AZ I found a … Continue reading ZL1/WK-033

After talking to Anton ZL1KR he assured me there was a track up Tihia. So I was keen to give this a go. The track starts from SH47 near where it crosses Papanetu stream. There is a slight pull off area on the side of the highway to park. The track starts here. The track is relatively easy to follow up – marked by pink … Continue reading ZL1/WK-023 : Tihia

Top of the North Island – Penthouse suit. ZL1/MW-001 in SOTA terms. 2797 m ASL. This is a summit not to under estimate. My tramping buddy / cousin Olivia and I decided we wanted to attack this summit this season (February to April roughly speaking).  So we checked out the weather forecast. We both knew the weather had to be calm and clear for this … Continue reading Ruapehu : ZL1/MW-001

Hihi (pronounced like the male pronoun rather than the greeting) is a summit on the Coromandel ranges that I had been eyeing up for a few years. This is a fair walk in but the gradient is OK for the most part. And you get to walk through a tunnel. The day I chose to activate this summit it was very hot and the initial … Continue reading ZL1/WK-072 : Hihi