Mt Mick is home to one of several aircraft wrecks in our local ranges. We left from the Waitohu road end and headed up to the Ventura Bomber wreck. Then a short climb above the Ventura put us on the main ridge for a lunch stop in the wet forest before heading south over Mt Mick and onto Tangata Maunga. From here it was just a long,
straightforward walk down past Waitohu Lodge on old logging roads back to the valley.
Sunday, 20 July 2014
One of the more intact pieces of RNZAF Ventura bomber 4573 that crashed on the slopes of Mt Mick in February 1946
The turnoff from the main ridge is appropriately marked
Gareth the electrician/soldier/conservation worker/student/tramper/runner/mountainbiker checks out the wiring on the GWRC weather station
No, Mike only looks like he's doing that...
Any port in a storm - Waitohu Lodge
GPS track - 21 or 22km depending on whose Garmin you believe. It doesn't record the mud.