100 MILE WALK PLANS ADVANCED

Taupo Times, Volume 19, Issue 97, 15 December 1970, Page 14

100 MILE WALK PLANS ADVANCED

Planning for the Napier Y.M.C.A.'s sponsored 100 mile walk from Taupo to Napier is well under way. The Hawke's Bay branch of the New Zealand Deerstalkers Association have for the past two months spent many hours preparing and organising the route. Numerous camps will be arranged for the week-long walk, the first being on Elmiger Bros, Taupo, property where the walkers will stay on Sunday night. Monday morning will see the departure of the walkers on their 7 3A hour journey to near the old Rangataiki Hotel where they will stay the night. Tuesday, walkers follow the main highway to the start of the Runanga deviation, through the deviation to a camp site near the junction with the main highway. The route for Wednesday follows the main road from Runanga junction past Tarawera and Tatarakina to the old highway over the Waione Stream and is a shorter walk. From there they will go up the old Turangakuma road to i the summit tearooms then down the main highway to the Te Haroto football field where they will spend the fourth night. Thursday's route will follow the main highway to the Mohaka Bridge up Titiokura to the summit, and then over Mr Peter Olsen's farm to

a forestry track which leads to Holts Ohurakura farm. The walkers follow forestry roads, farm tracks, and a Ministry of Works pilot road to the Esk River on Friday, to a riverside camp on Mr G. Watts' Ellis Wallace crossing property. The last leg of the walk will be along the Ellis Wallace road and then the main high-

way to Eskdale. The route then goes along Hill road to Bay View and the main highway to reach the Hawke's Bay Airport at about * 2.30 p.m. Mr Coates, the general secretary of the Napier Y.M.C.A. said his association was deeply indebted to the deerstalkers for the enormous amount of work they had put into organising the walk.