The Aorangi (Haurangi) Forest Park fills the hills between Palliser Bay and the Wairarapa farmland. It is bush-covered country with small huts and river valleys.
The club's reports here mostly describe medium weekend tramps to Mangatoetoe, Washpool, Kawakawa and Pararaki huts, often combined with the Putangirua Pinnacles at the coast end. A few mention an Aorangi Crossing.
July and November are the busiest months in the reports.
Highlight trips
When ‘Garage Projects’ go Feral – Aorangi Undulator and Aorangi 1002014 · Medium-Fit
Aorangi Crossing: A tramper’s tramp2022 · Medium
Not the Aorangi Crossing but a sweet as Kiwi Kawakawa Experience2019 · Easy-Medium
Kawakawa-Mangatoetoe Traverse2016 · Easy-Medium
(Aorangi Crossing) Turanganui River Return2018 · Medium
The Ups and Downs of the Aorangi Crossing2017 · Medium
A tramp of two halves2019 · Medium- From the newsletterThe Haurangi Peanut Butter TrailAt 6.30 the club truck stood ready to remove fifteen or so adventurous souls from the confines of Wellington. Ten of us were on the Easy/Medium trip led by Marshall Clark. The rest were slightly more masochistic fit trip trampers led by Anita Catchpole. Our…
- From the newsletterFrog Tarn and the Mystery Tops of the Southern HaurangisFo an easy, pleasant tramp, the southern Haurangis are one of my favourite places; personally I think they’re one of the best-kept tramping secrets in the southern North Island. All their advantages can be summed up in a single sentence: they’re not the…