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Edwards - Hawdon Route
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7-day forecast
Open-Meteo (CC BY 4.0)Best time to hike
No month meets all three rules below at this spot.
- J17°9°298
- F17°9°226
- M15°7°263
- A12°5°281
- M8°2°306
- J5°-1°314
- J4°-2°238
- A5°0°278
- S8°1°353
- O11°3°394
- N13°5°320
- D15°8°375
Average high °C · low °C · precipitation mm per month. Highlighted: best months.
How we pick months
Best months are those where the 1981–2010 average daily high is 10–27 °C (50–81 °F), the average overnight low is 0 °C (32 °F) or warmer, and average precipitation is 200 mm (7.9 in) or less. Values are long-term monthly averages for the ~1 km cell at the trail point on the map, from CHELSA V2.1 climatologies (Karger et al., CC0), not a forecast. Higher or more exposed parts of a route can be colder, wetter or snowier.
Trail facts
- Difficulty
- Very hard (9/10) (Expert · NZ Department of Conservation difficulty (CC BY 4.0))
- Mapped length
- 31 km · 19 mi (OSM route, Waymarked Trails)
- Mountain range
- Polar Range (Main Divide of The Southern Alps › Southern Alps; GMBA)
- Nearest town
- 4.0 km SE of Arthur’s Pass (Selwyn District, Canterbury) · GeoNames
- Park or forest
- Arthur's Pass National Park
- Country
- New Zealand
- Region
- Canterbury
- Continent
- Oceania
- Route type
- Local route
- Route centre
- -42.9381, 171.6746
- Route start
- -42.9792, 171.5956
- OpenStreetMap
- relation 17327573
- Wikidata
- Q124802714
How it’s scored
Very hard (9/10). Official rating: Expert · NZ Department of Conservation difficulty (CC BY 4.0).
A score is omitted when we do not have an official rating or enough measured length and elevation gain to compute one. Nothing is guessed. Read the NPS method: https://www.nps.gov/shen/planyourvisit/how-to-determine-hiking-difficulty.htm
Hikers can rate difficulty from 1 to 10 (1 = flat, short, easy walk for anyone; 3 = gentle hills, a little effort; 5 = moderate climbs, some fitness needed; 7 = steep or long, solid fitness required; 10 = extremely strenuous or technical; long steep climbing; experienced hikers only). The community average is shown once at least 3 people have rated the trail; until then the official or computed score is used when we have one.
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