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Return to the River
Te Araroa's Rangiriri-Huntly trail - the next leg in our 30-kilometre Waikato riverside trail - is underway. The new trail continues where the Meremere-Rangiriri Trail left off last year. That trail, opened December 16 200, is popular. Its stile counter records up to 170 hikers a month. |
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Waikato team gathered on Huntly Golf Course fairway about to start construction. L to R: Ed Moana, Dean Straker, Sonny Hapi, Jeff Kani, Geoff Chapple, Noel Sandford Credit: Miriam Beatson |
The team has already cleared riverside vegetation and formed a rough path Credit: M Beatson |
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The team has already cleared riverside vegetation and formed a rough path Credit: M Beatson |
Sonny Hapi & Ed Moana walk the track Credit: M Beatson |
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Trust Waikato granted Te Araroa Trust the money for the new Rangiriri-Huntly leg, and a local team began work 10 December 2001. Two of last year's Te Araroa track-builders are back again - Sonny Hapi who is team leader, and Jeff Kani. Ed Moana and Dean Straker are new to the the team. Hamilton Boys High woodwork teacher Noel Sandford also drops by three days a week and is designing a long section of boardwalk and bridging where the trail goes riverside under long avenues of trees. That's to avoid golf balls richocetting up the Huntly Golf Club fairways - but it's also one of the most beautiful sections - just trees, the river, and you. The new section will be 11 kilometres long, and should open March or April next year. Sonia Frimmel from Pirongia is overseeing the project. |