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Open-Meteo (CC BY 4.0)Best time to hike
Best months: Nov–Apr · highs 13–19 °C (55–66 °F)
- J19°10°136
- F19°11°104
- M17°9°146
- A13°6°130
- M9°2°141
- J4°-1°132
- J3°-2°115
- A5°-1°130
- S7°1°137
- O10°3°156
- N13°6°138
- D17°9°163
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
Tasman River is a large braided river which flows into Lake Pukaki. There are walking and cycling tracks in the area.
NZ Department of Conservation (CC BY 4.0).
Trail facts
- Length
- 8.5 km · 5.3 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)
- 2 or 3 hr one way
- Official page
- doc.govt.nz/link/4be373d5c563432e89c3a8bfdd3
- Mountain range
- Burnett Mountains (Main Divide of The Southern Alps › Southern Alps; GMBA)
- Nearest town
- 46 km N of Twizel (Mackenzie District, Canterbury) · GeoNames
- Best months
- Nov–Apr
- Country
- New Zealand
- Region
- Canterbury
- Continent
- Oceania
- Route centre
- -43.8465, 170.1623
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.
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