Mount Vernon

Canterbury, New Zealand

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Last Updated: 21st Sep 2023

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Little or no technical difficulty or exposure

462m

Height

Distance away

-43.59412, 172.66783

Coordinates

BX24 7319 7315

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Mount Vernon can be accessed on the trails Lyttelton to Diamond Harbour, Halswell and Kennedys, The Bowenvale Elevator, The Gorsetrack Strikes Back, Rapaki Sugarloaf Return, Sign Of The Takahe - Rapaki, Port Hills Nearly Half Marathon, Whigs' Flying Fifty (WFF), VKV challenge, Banks Peninsula Ultra Beer Run, Bowenvale / Huntsbury Loop, Gondola Gallop, The ATH (Around The Harbour), Lava - H.ELL Loop, The Guv'nor & His Birds, The Crater Rim, Lava Lite, Takahe Half, Mt Pleasant Trig, Gang of Four, Dog Sniffing Rhythms - Harbour Crusin', Trinity - Harbour Bruisin', Gates Of The East, Hunting Out A Gorge-ous Loop, Lyttelton Dress Circle, Port Hills Spur Challenge!, Up Hill Down Valley, Pour Some Sugarloaf On Me, Lyttelton Semi-Circle, Holliss Stairway to Heaven, The Pipeline of Pain, Mt Vernon Farm Track , Vicki Vale, Heathcote River Run - Opawa to Hoon Hay, Christchurch 360 Trail - Sugarloaf Hills Section, Bird to Bird, Port Hills Protocol, Bodybag, O'Farrells For Shore, The Governator, Heathcote Meander, Montgomery Loop, Quail Island Looping, The Chairlift Choice, Tussock Hill Ridge, Mt Pleasant Elevator, Governator 2 - Judgement Day, Christchurch 360 Trail - Godley Cliffs Section, The North Faces, Westmorland Hill Reps, The Missing Link, Beer Bum Bluffs, Tauhinu-Korokio TKO, Beginner's Adventure Park Loop, Morgans Baa Baa Loop, Boulder Dash, Mary Had a Little Lamb, Horsing Around, Port Hills 8-Attack, Takahe to Taylors, Dry Run to Tamatea's Leap, 2 Sugars, 2 Vernons & a Half Shot, Majorly Steadfast, Adventure to the Backside, Victoria's Secrets, Upper East Side hill reps, Cracroft Wetlands, The Gates of Montgomery, The Coronation of Anthony, Coronation Climb, Urumau Undulations, Ernle Clark & Purau Reserves and Castle Rock Ridge from our trail directory.

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David Hosking

Follow the Crater Rim trail between the top of Rapaki and Sugarloaf and you will bag this peak! Steep singletrack to get up and down but highly runnable.

David Hosking

February 2, 2022

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Alastair McDowell

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