Description

Head through the gate at road end, spray your shoes at the Kauri Dieback station and free your mind. Starting downhill for a few hundred metres you can choose to run this clockwise or anti-clockwise (this has a short steeper downhill first and a moderate incline uphill at the end or vice versa the other way). If clockwise take the first left and follow your nose on a well formed track, gravel base through native bush and when you reach a branch that veers left or right take the right and follow on for another km or so to the downhill section and stairs lead you down to the swingbridge and across the stream (across the bridge you have a choice, extend this run uphill to Constable Rd entrance (about a 1.5km uphill where you can spin round and enjoy the downhill you've just slogged up), alternatively stick to the loop. After crossing the bridge take the left track down to the stream bed. The track is more a route from here (it is marked) but you basically criss-cross many times through in and around the stream. Great summer swimming hole about halfway up. Just keep roughly following the better worn tracks on each side of the stream and the orange markers. You can't get lost, if you did you head back into the stream and keep following it up. You eventually come to a waterfall that you can't go past. Take some pics, freshen up and head back downstream where on your left about 100-200m you'll see the track head uphill on stairs. These take you to the track back to the carpark but take a short left at the top to the lookout platform for the falls. Then follow the main track back uphill to the carpark.

Features of interest

This adventure run has it all, well formed single track, technical track and a route that follows in and out of the stream bed, my number 1 trail in the Waitakeres that can be added to Te Henga for distance and more hills

Make Up of Run

Untracked / Route only: 20%

Technical Single Track: 40%

Easy Single Track: 40%

Route Data