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Mikonui Catchment - Dickie Ridge/Upper Tuke River Route
Next nearby hike: Whitcombe Pass Track 8 mi · 13 kmExplore Mount Beaumont →
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Open-Meteo (CC BY 4.0)Best time to hike
No month meets all three rules below at this spot.
- J14°8°372
- F14°8°289
- M12°6°357
- A10°4°347
- M7°2°358
- J4°-1°397
- J3°-2°325
- A4°-1°344
- S6°0°409
- O8°2°425
- N10°4°372
- D12°6°458
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.
About this trail
The Dickie Ridge/Tuke River Route provides a link to challenging alpine tramping opportunities and gives access to the Waitaha and Whitcombe catchments.
NZ Department of Conservation (CC BY 4.0).
Trail facts
- Length
- 10 km · 6 mi (DOC route geometry)
- Source
- NZ Department of Conservation (CC BY 4.0)
- Difficulty
- Very hard (9/10) (Advanced, Expert · NZ Department of Conservation difficulty (CC BY 4.0))
- Typical time (DOC)
- 2-3 days
- Official page
- doc.govt.nz/link/d9574d8a275141c9b0dd04d18a8
- Mountain range
- Mount Beaumont (Southern Alps; GMBA)
- Nearest town
- 39 km S of Hokitika (Westland District, West Coast) · GeoNames
- Park or forest
- Conservation Area - Totara - Mikonui Forests
- Country
- New Zealand
- Region
- West Coast
- Continent
- Oceania
- Route centre
- -43.0578, 170.8637
How it’s scored
Very hard (9/10). Official rating: Advanced, 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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