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7-day forecast
Open-Meteo (CC BY 4.0)Best time to hike
Best months: Nov–Mar · highs 11–15 °C (52–59 °F)
- J15°6°75
- F15°6°58
- M12°4°76
- A9°2°60
- M5°-1°70
- J1°-4°68
- J-1°-6°55
- A1°-4°58
- S4°-2°57
- O8°0°68
- N11°2°61
- D13°5°83
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
Access the Remarkables Conservation Area on these tracks.
NZ Department of Conservation (CC BY 4.0).
Trail facts
- Length
- 13 km · 8 mi (DOC route geometry)
- Source
- NZ Department of Conservation (CC BY 4.0)
- Difficulty
- Hard (7/10) (Advanced · NZ Department of Conservation difficulty (CC BY 4.0))
- Typical time (DOC)
- Various times over 4 hr return
- Official page
- doc.govt.nz/link/b570f10ee00e469681807d6678c
- Mountain range
- Hector Mountains (Inland Southern Alps › Southern Alps; GMBA)
- Nearest town
- 18 km E of Jack's Point (Queenstown-Lakes District, Otago) · GeoNames
- Best months
- Nov–Mar
- Country
- New Zealand
- Region
- Otago
- Continent
- Oceania
- Route centre
- -45.1206, 168.9652
How it’s scored
Hard (7/10). Official rating: Advanced · 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.