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Te Araroa - extreme weather alternative from Camp Elsdon, Porirua
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7-day forecast
Open-Meteo (CC BY 4.0)Best time to hike
Year-round
- J17°15°78
- F18°15°75
- M17°14°97
- A15°12°98
- M13°11°128
- J12°9°153
- J11°9°155
- A11°9°139
- S12°9°115
- O13°10°132
- N14°12°106
- D16°13°104
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
an alternative in extreme weather to avoid being on an the exposed top of Rangituhi
OpenStreetMap (ODbL).
Trail facts
- Mapped length
- 6.8 km · 4.2 mi (OSM route, Waymarked Trails)
- Mountain range
- Tararua Range (North Island Mountain Spine; GMBA)
- Nearest town
- 1.9 km W of Porirua (Porirua City, Wellington Region) · GeoNames
- Best months
- Year-round
- Country
- New Zealand
- Region
- Wellington
- Continent
- Oceania
- Route type
- Regional route
- Ref
- TAalt
- From / to
- Camp Elsdon, Porirua → point 258 above Spicer Landfill
- Route centre
- -41.1508, 174.8199
- Route start
- -41.1371, 174.8284
- OpenStreetMap
- relation 10372194
How it’s scored
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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